:NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1865, 65 



8. EuRYusA KiRBYi, Jaiison, Eiit. xlnnual, 1858, 64, 10, 



Fig. 8. 



Dr. Power (Ent. 323, 265) records the capture by biniself 

 at Birdbrook, in Essex, during last August, of this insect, 

 under the names " Thiasophila inqidUna or Euryusa Kirhyi, 

 whichever it is to be." This expression will in all probability 

 sufficiently puzzle many provincial Entomologists, but is 

 very easily explained. It has long been the opinion of most 

 metropolitan Coleo])terists, judging both from the figure and 

 description of Mr. Janson's species, that it was the same 

 as the insect known to us as Thiasophila i^/quUinn; -—the 

 resemblance between the two insects being, indeed, if I mis- 

 take not, first pointed out by Dr. Powei' himself, who was 

 the oi'iginal captor of the latter; — and this opinion has been 

 confirmed on a most careful examination by that gentleman 

 and Mr. Crotch of the " Eiwyu&a Kirhyi,'' which has lately 

 passed into Mr. Crotch's collection. 



Mr. Crotch intends, I believe, to fully investigate both the 

 generic and specific value of our T. inquilina. 



It is somewhat curious that this should happen to have 

 been the species immediately preceding Kuryu^u Kirhyi in 

 the Ent. Ann. for 1858; and Mr. Janson's expression, as to 

 the desirability of a very careful examination being bestowed 

 upon the specimens on which it was introduced by Dr. 

 Power, seems to have been almost prophetic. 



9. Myrmedonia plicata, Er. Col. March, i. 289, 5; id. 



Gen. et Spec. Staph. 36, 2; Redt. Faun. Austr. 817; 



Kraatz, Ins. Deutschl. ii. 128, 12 ; E. AY. Janson, 



Proc. Ent. Soc. 6 Nov. 1865, Ent. Monthly Mag. 



vol. ii. p. 169. 

 Several specimens of this most interesting insect were 

 taken by Mr. F. Smith and his son, Mr. E. Smith, in 

 1866."' F 



