NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1865. 87 



It appears to be nearest to A. munda, of our species 

 (having the thorax abruptly depressed in the middle behind) ; 

 but to be larger than that insect, with brown, unicolorous 

 elytra and thorax, thinner antennas, and finer and more re- 

 mote punctuation. 



39. Elmis cupreus, Midler, Illig. Mag. v. 205, 8 ; Heer ; 



Er. Ins. Deutschl. iii. 531, 11; D. Sharp, Ent. 

 Monthly Mag. vol. ii. p. 12. 



Mr. Sharp has taken this species at Aberlady, near Edin- 

 burgh (where I afterwards had the pleasure of taking a large 

 number in his company), and thinks it not improbable that 

 it is confounded with E. nitens, Miill., in British collections. 

 Mr. Sharp has, I believe, since found several specimens 

 among some unexamined Coleoptera taken by himself in 

 Buckinghamshire. 



It appears to differ from E. nitens in being rather smaller, 

 with oblique impressions on the thorax, the posterior angles 

 of which are not so much directed outwards : the striae of 

 the elytra are also more strongly punctate, and the alternate 

 interstices elevated. 



Mr. Sharp remarks that Mr. Waterhouse has referred 

 the E. cupreus of Stephens to E. nitens^ but that the de- 

 scription in Manual (637) certainly refers to the former 

 species. It is, also, included in M. de Marseul's Catalogue 

 (1863) as British. 



40. ^GiALiA RUFA, Fab. Ent. Syst. i. 39, 129; id. Syst. 



El.; Schon.; Er. Ins. Deutschl. iii. 918,2; G. R. 

 Crotch, Proc. Ent. Soc. 6 Nov. 1865; Ent. Monthly 

 Mag. vol. ii. p. 169. 

 Mr. Crotch exhibited an example of this species, of which 



