50 COLEOPTERA. 



10. Aleochara spadicea, Erichs., Col. Marc. i. 300, 3; 



id. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 61,3 (Ocalea); Kraatz, 



Ins. Deut, ii. 98, 18 ; E. W. Janson, Proc. Ent. Soc. 



5 Sept. 1864, Zool. 9267 (1864). 



Taken by Mr. J. A. Brewer, in Cumberland, in the autumn 



of 1863, and communicated by Mr. E. W. Janson to Dr. 



Kraatz, who returned it labelled ** Ab Aleochara sjmdicea 



vix distincta." 



Mr. Janson remarks that it appears to him not impro- 

 bable that A. procera will ultimately prove to have been 

 founded on large dark individuals of this species ; the speci- 

 men above mentioned presenting, in its supei'ior size, piceous 

 elytra, and foveolated prothorax, several of the characters 

 assigned to A. jorocera. 



11. Aleochara sanguinea (Kirby), Stephens; Wat. Cat. 



hrunneipennis, Kraatz. 



moerenSf Thomson. 

 Mr. Waterhouse (Proc. Ent. Soc. 7 Mar. 1864, Zool. 

 9011, 1864), has called attention to the above synonymy. 

 He has identified Thomson's species both by description, and 

 by comparison with a specimen received from that author by 

 Mr. Crotch. 



12. HoMALOTA NOTHA, Erichs., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 126, 



101 ; Kraatz, Ins. Deut. ii. 323, 127; E. W. Janson, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. 5 Sept. 1864, Zool. 9268 (1864). 

 " Captured by Mr. J. A. Brewer, beneath rejectamenta of 

 the River Medway." 



The first example of this species taken by Mr. Brewer 

 was submitted by him to Mr. G. R. Waterhouse, who named 

 it *' Homalota notha ;" under which name, I believe, it came 



