NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1865. lOl 



the French Museum; and to be very closely allied to S. cam- 

 bf'icns, having the same structure and size, and being dis- 

 tinguished fi'om that insect principally by the cinereous silky 

 pubescence on its upper surface. The pubescence appears to 

 be closer and longer than in S. camhricus, often preventing 

 the punctuation of the insect from being seen ; the punc- 

 tuation, moreover, is a little weaker, the head is less fur- 

 rowed, and the elytra seeyn to be a little longer. The 

 antennge appear to be more ferruginous, and the entire insect 

 has an uniformly lighter appearance. 



65. Trachyphlceus aristatus, Gyll. (Schon. Cure), Ins. 

 Suec. iv. 613, 35, 36; E. C. Rye, Ent. Monthly 

 Mag. vol. ii. p. 156. 

 stipulatus, Germ. 



squamulatus, Oliv., var. ; Walton, Ex. Ann. and Mag. 

 of Nat. Hist. 1844, 83, 4. 

 Walton, although he has remarked some of the differences 

 between T. aristatus and squamulatus, erroneously con- 

 siders them as specifically identical; imagining specimens 

 of the latter, sent to him on two different occasions by 

 Chevrolat, to be small immature varieties of the former, but 

 retaining Olivier's name as entitled to priority. 



The true T, squainulatus appears to be found most com- 

 monly on the south coast (Seaford, taken by Messrs. Water- 

 house and myself; and Hythe, Rev. W. Tylden), and is 

 usually smaller than T. aristatus (my specimens of which 

 were taken at Wickham and Mickleham), and of a lighter 

 reddish colour; its thorax is not so transverse, being much 

 less expanded at the sides ; its legs and antennas are rather 

 shorter, the basal joint of the latter being somewhat abruptly 

 contracted in the middle, and the setae on its elytra are much 

 shorter, and more slender and uniform ; whilst in T. aristatus 

 they are erect, long, stout, and individually very decidedly 



