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on each side, and the female has the last ventral segment 

 slightly emarginate at the apex. 



I cannot satisfactorily follow these differences in the male, 

 owing partly to their slight character, and partly to the 

 difficulty of deciding between natural structure and acci- 

 dental distortion in such a soft and easily-wrinkled substance 

 as the abdominal plate of a Telephorus ; but, in the female 

 the difference, though small, is readily perceptible, as far as 

 I have observed. 



I found both species together at Rannoch, but others do 

 not appear to take them in company; and the insect with 

 entirely yellow legs is certainly the rarer of the two. 



47. Malthodes mysticus, Kies., Linn. Ent. vii. 282, 7; 



id. Ins. Deutschl. iv. 538, 5 ; Thoms. Skand. Col. vi. 



199, 3 ; G. R. Crotch, " The Entomologist," ii. 182 ; 



T. J. Bold, Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. ii. 63. 



Mr. Crotch records this species on the authority of several 



specimens in Mr. Wollaston's Collection ; and Mr. Bold has 



taken two examples at Gibside, in July last year. 



It appears to be like biguttatus, Linn., Thorns, (which 

 name is placed by Mr. Crotch before marginatuSf Latr.), but 

 having the elytra generally unicolorous, and the lateral 

 margins of the thorax dark. 



48. Malthodes brevicollis, Payk. Faun. Suec. i. 269, 



16; Gyll.; Thomson, Skand. Col. vi. 200, 4 {nee 

 Kies.) 

 nigellus, Kies. Ins. Deutschl. iv. 555, 20. 

 Mr. Crotch {loc. clt.) states that he has two examples 

 apparently referable to this species (which is small, entirely 

 black, with shining thorax), but unfortunately both are 

 females, so that he cannot speak with certainty. 



