NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1865. 93 



been recently formed into a genus by MM. Motscliulsky 

 and Thomson, which has been accepted by M. Kiesenwetter ; 

 the principal character being that of the produced second 

 joint of the tarsi in the male, in allusion to which the name 

 Axinotarsus, Mots., has been employed to distinguish them. 

 The only other recognized British species in this new genus 

 appears to be jmlicarius. Fab. ; to which Mr. Crotch notes 

 that the marginalis of Laporte is very nearly allied, being 

 distinguished easily bv its testaceous anterior tibiae. 



53. Anthocomus terminatcjs, Menet. Cat. rais. 164, 



No. 664 (1837); Falderm.; Kiesenw. in Er. Ins. 

 Deutschl. iv. 598, 4; G. R. Crotch, *' The Entomo- 

 logist," vol. i. pp. 209, 214. 

 riificolh's, Fab., Er., Wat. Cat. {Malachius) -^ nee Oliv. 

 Mr. Crotch notes from Kiesenwetter that the Malachius 

 n/Jicollis of our collections is an Anthocomus, and should 

 be placed after A. fasciatuSy under the next oldest name, 

 terminatus ; also that the very broadly red apex to its elytra, 

 and its simple tarsi, will always distinguish it. 



54. Dasytes sub^neus, Schonh. Syn. Ins. iii. 15, 20 j 



Redt. ; Kiesenw. Ins. Deutschl. iv. 640, 8. 



wneiis, Oliv. nee Fab. 



(Bratus, Steph. 

 Mr. G. R. Crotch (Ent. vol. i. p. 225,149) states that the 

 above is the correct synonymy of the common insect known 

 to us as D. ceratus, which seems to be almost undescribed 

 in continental works, and has therefore been queried as 

 {Bneiventris, Kust, Mr. Crotch proceeds to remark that the 

 latter insect is, however, ItaHan, though possibly only a 

 variety of D. ceratus, which would seem to have been first 

 described and figured by Olivier in 1790, but was erroneously 



