90 COLEOPTERA. 



In other respects besides size these Scotch specimens appear 

 to differ materially from T, assimilis. 



44. Telephorus H^MORRHOiDALis,Fab. (1792), Mars. 62. 



cli/peatuSf 111., Gyll., Wat. Cat. 

 Mr. Crotch (loc. cit.) gives the above synonymy for this 

 species. 



45. Telephorus fulvus, Scop. (1763) ; Mars. 79. 

 From Mr. Crotch's paper {loc. cit.), I presume this name 



is intended to supersede the T. melanurus of Wat. Cat. 



46. Telephorus testaceus, Linn. Faun. Suec. Ed. ii. 



714 {Cantharis) ; Thoms. Skand. Col. vi. 191, 4. 



Mr. Crotch {loc. cit.) follows Thomson in separating what 

 have been hitherto usually considered as forms of the same 

 species. The insect commonly known as testaceus has always 

 the femora, and sometimes the legs entirely, black : this is 

 the T. limhatua, Thoms. {loc. cit. 191, 5) ; and, from Mr. 

 Waterhouse's Catalogue, appears to be the T. testaceus of 

 the Linnagan Collection. 



The ^e.s^acew5 of Liimaeus (whose meagre description states 

 the legs to be yellow) has the entire legs {not feet, as acci- 

 dentally appears in Mr. Crotch's notice) ochreous ; and was 

 separated by Stephens, under the name ochropus (and pal- 

 lipes of his Coll.), from what he considered to be testaceus. 



Thomson states that in the male of testaceus the penulti- 

 mate ventral segment of the abdomen is widely emarginate 

 at the apex ; and that in the female the terminal ventral seg- 

 ment has its apex very slightly sinuated on each side ; whilst 

 in limbatus the male has the penultimate segment depressed 

 and sub- truncate at the apex, with a tubercular-projection 



