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mens with black disc to the thorax. These are always 

 larger and more robust than the Scotch specimens. 



43. Telephorus assimilis, Payk. Faun. Suec. i. 261, 6; 



Fallen; Gyll. ; Kies., Er. Ins. Deutschl. iv. 489, 



16 ; Thorns. Skand. Col. vi. 178, 7. 

 Mr. Crotch {Joe. cit.) now refers to the above species the 

 insect which he formerly registered with doubt in his Cata- 

 logue as T. femnraUs, Brulle (a true WiaijonycUa by its 

 bifid claws, which resembles it in colouring), and which he 

 believes to be the "21* Sp. ?" of Waterhouse's Cata- 

 logue. 



The description given by Mr. Crotch (^^ black ; thorax 

 rufo- testaceous, disc more or less black ; elytra and tibiae 

 testaceous"), the locality (Scotland), original captor (C. 

 Turner), and remark as to the generally mistaken reference 

 to Ithnyonycha, of this insect, which is a true Telephorus, 

 all seem to point without the possibility of mistake to Mr. 

 Waterhouse's species; to which, however, the description of 

 T. assimilh seems to me inapplicable. In June last I took 

 a large quantity of this insect at Rannoch, where it was ex- 

 ceedingly abundant, both in marshy places and on young 

 birch trees, &c. ; and found some slight varieties in colora- 

 tion and size ; the majority being about the size of T. hicolor, 

 but narrower, with much thinner legs, and altogether a 

 more delicately-built species. Mr. Crotch states that the 

 Scotch are markedly smaller than the Continental speci- 

 mens ; they must, indeed, be much less if they are to agree 

 with the description of assimilis, which, according to Kie- 

 senwetter (who only compares it with livida) is sometimes 

 larger than rufa, and according to Thomson (who says it is 

 intermediate between livida and litnratd) is the same size as 

 pellucida and obscura. 



