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species, new to our lists, taken by himself at Weston-super- 

 Mare; and from his remarks {loc. cit.) it appears to resemble 

 T. caricisy but to be smaller, with the thorax much broader 

 than long, the femora frequently infuscate, and the whole 

 insect in many cases piceous. 



Mr. Crotch states it is found in France and Germany, and 

 is probably overlooked; also that specimens he received 

 from M. Aube himself agree exactly with his own ; but that 

 M. Kiesenwetter describes it as of the size of T. typhce, 

 which Mr. Crotch does not find to be the case. 



Kiesenwetter remarks that it may be known from typhcB 

 through its considerably greater convexity, and stouter 

 antennse ; and that it is taken in association with that species. 



57. Telmatophilus Schonherri, Gyll.; G. R. Crotch, 

 Cat. Brit. Col.; id. "The Entomologist," vol.i. 210, 

 146. 

 Mr. Crotch remarks that this species has been confounded 

 with T. tijphcB, from which it differs in having the sides of 

 the thorax rounded in front and distinctly contracted behind ; 

 the whole insect being much narrower, and the femora and 

 antennae nearly black. Mr. Crotch also notices that MM. 

 Thomson (Skand. Col. v. 244) and Kiesenwetter (Ins. 

 Deutschl. iv. 672) do not agree well in their descriptions, 

 either in the form of the thorax or in the coloration ; and 

 that his specimens agree best with the species as described 

 by M. Kiesenwetter. Partly fi-om this very discrepancy, 

 and partly from the fact of my never being able to see any 

 satisfactory difference in the outline of the thorax between 

 typhcB and the specimens I suppose to be Schonherrij I am 

 induced to believe the two are specifically identical. The 

 coloration test appears to me to be valueless, as the femora in 

 1yj)h(B are allowed to be occasionally infuscate ; moreover, I 



