NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1863. 73 



Kirby's insect is mucli smaller than S. frontalis, being 

 even rather less than S. discoideus ; it is short-ovate in form, 

 with the elytra obtusely rounded behind, black, with the an- 

 tennae, legs, and four spots on the elytra, testaceous ; the 

 femora however being fuscous at the base. 



Of the spots on the elytra the anterior pair are oblong and 

 placed obliquely, the hinder pair small and slightly lunate. 



51. PtiliujM affine, Erichs. Nat. der Ins. Deutschl. iii, 

 27 ; Rev. A. Matthews, Zool. 8649 (1863). 



A single specimen taken by Mr. Matthews in the fens of 

 Norfolk. 



From that gentleman's notice this species appears to be- 

 long to a section of the genus which is distinguished by three 

 impressed lines on the disc of the thorax, and to be known 

 from its allies by the lateral lines appearing at first sight to 

 be paralled for their whole length with the central channel ; 

 when closely examined, however, each line shows a faint 

 curve at its extremities, in contrary directions. The insect 

 also seems to be much more convex and larger than any 

 other of the same section except .P. ccBsum, Er. 



Mr. G. R. Crotch, of Weston-super-Mare, and St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, well known as an energetic and suc- 

 cessful worker, who has done (and will, I hope, continue 

 to do) good service by his personal communications with 

 European Coleopterists, and to whom English Entomolo- 

 gists are, or ought to be, much obliged for the research 

 and rapidity which he employs in investigating changes of 

 nomenclature, has recently published a Catalogue of British 

 Coleoptera, with an idea of establishing the continental 

 system among us. 



When I remark that in this Catalogue it is the exception, 



