NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1865. 77 



My insect exhibits all these characters, except the narrow- 

 ness as compared with holed; but I think it can hardly fail 

 to be the true assimilis. 



21. A.MSOTOMA Triepkii, Schmidt, Germ. Zeits. f. d. Ent. 



iii. 153, 6; Er. Ins. Deutschl. iii. 55, 3; G. R. 

 Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. ; E. C. Rye, Ent. Monthly 

 Mag', vol. i. p. 258. 



I have detected an example of this species, originally 

 introduced by Mr. Crotch in his '' Catalogue," among some 

 Ariisotomid(S taken by Mr. Hislop, near Falkirk. 



It is allied to A. hrunnea, Wat. Cat. ; entirely ferruginous, 

 with concolorous antennae, wdiich are short, with the apical 

 joint narrower than the preceding, the two penultimate joints 

 being very transverse, and narrower than usual : the thorax 

 has the base sinuate on each side near the hinder angles; the 

 elytra have the interstices delicately punctured, the alternate 

 ones, however, having large scattered impressions. In the 

 fully developed male the hinder femora are widened in the 

 middle, with the lower side of the apical end rounded, and 

 the hinder tibiae strongly curved. 



This specim.en agi-eeswith Erichsois's description, and with 

 a type sent by Dr. Kraatz ; also with Mr. Crotch's original 

 example. 



22. Anisotoma silesiaca, Crotch, Cat. Bi'it. Col. ; E: C. 



Rye, Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. i. p. 259. 

 Yly. Crotch has kindly allowed me to examine the spe- 

 cimen, on the authority of which he introduced this species 

 into his catalogue, and which he informs m.e w^as so named 

 by M. Schiodle. The insect in question is only A. ovalls, 

 and differs in every way from the true A, silesiaca^ which is 



