NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1865. 97 



Dr. Power also states that Turner's insect could only be 

 mistaken for A. moiled ahietis, or plumbeiim, of our British 

 species ; and that it is utterly unlike the first two {inter alia) 

 in being dark-coloured; differing from the last in being 

 more elongate, less glossy, with shorter and closer pu- 

 bescence, the sides of the thorax much less emarginate 

 behind, and the elytra finely granulated. 



Beyond a reference to '' Scotch rarities," no clue has 

 yet been given to a locality for this species ; which, as Mr. 

 WoUaston's specimen is from an unrecorded place, must 

 remain one of the '^Arcana of science," — an expression once 

 happily applied to the now despised Cossonus linearis, 



59. Anisoxya fuscula, 111. Kiif. Preuss. 132, 9 {Serro- 

 palpus); Redt. Faun. Austr. 629; G. R. Crotch, 

 " The Entomologist," vol. ii. 189, 120. 

 Dirccea tenuis, Rosenh. Beitr. S. 34. 

 ? Hallomefius fuscus, Wat. Cat. 



Mr. Crotch states that two specimens of this insect were 

 recently taken by Mr. Brewer, one of which passed into the 

 hands of Mr. Janson, and the other into the British Mu- 

 seum. These specimens appear to have been originally 

 named Hallomenus fuscus, Gyll., from a comparison with 

 two examples of Dr. Power's (which are, as Mr. Crotch 

 believes, the only authority for that species as British) ; — the 

 latter also being unquestionably identical, as Mr. Crotch 

 conceives, with Anisoxya fuscula, 



Anisoxya appears to be a genus established by Mulsant, 

 in 1856, to include Dirccea tenuis, Rosenh., an insect after- 

 wards identified with t^erropalpus fusculus, 111., which seems 

 to be widely distributed over the Continent. It is of an uni- 

 colorous brown, with pale pubescence; having the appear- 

 ance of an Abdera, from which it may be known by its long 



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