NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1864. 61 



O. speciillfrons differs from O. nitidulus, Grav. (Tvhich it 

 resembles consideiably in colour), in being smaller, with the 

 head and thorax duller, and longitudinally strigose, instead 

 of coarsely punctured ; the punctuation of the elytra, more- 

 over, is coarser, and only sub-strigose in the latter species. 



Taken by myself on the Thames Bank at Hammersmith, 

 and at Shirley, near Croydon ; also by Mr. D. Sharp at the 

 latter place, and by Dr. J. A. Power at Mickleham. 



32. Trogophlceus halophilus, v. Kiesenw., Stett. Ent. 



Zeit. V. 373 ; Kraatz, Ins. Deuts. ii. 877, 9; G. R. 

 Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. ; id. Zool. 9001 (1861). 

 Found by Mr. Crotch in salt marshes at Weston, in some 

 numbers, and distributed in most metropolitan collections. 



This species is | lin. long, black, the antennae concolorous 

 and legs pitchy ; the thorax is transverse, subcordate, and 

 has no dorsal grooves. 



33. Lesteva monticola, Kies., Stett. Ent. Zeit. viii. 77 ; 



Kraatz, Ins. Deuts. ii. 933, 3; D. Sharp, Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. 3 Oct. 1864, Zool. 9335 (1864). 



One specimen of this insect was taken last August by 

 Mr. Sharp at Rannoch, and another in the Isle of Arran. 

 There appears to be a third in Mr. Janson's Collection, taken 

 on the Cheviots. 



It is of the same size as L. hicolor, but in build more 

 like L. pubescens. From bicolor it may be known by the 

 punctuation of the thorax being somewhat more remote and 

 stronger, and of the elytra rather finer. The thorax also is 

 somewhat narrower and longer, with the hinder angles 

 less acute ; and the pubescence of the elytra is longer and 

 thicker. 



