NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1865. 117 



'* silvery pubescence, rather thickly covered with small dis- 

 " tinct tubercles, arranged in curved rows, with the inter- 

 " stices deeply and elegantly alutaceous ; the head and 

 *' thorax rather narrow, and the elytra in the female (?) very 

 " much dilated towards the apex." 



Mr. Matthews remarks that this species appears to be 

 rare, though widely dispersed ; having been found near 

 London by Mr. Waterhouse, in Devonshire by Mr. Wol- 

 laston, and near Gumley and in Oxfordshire by himself. 

 One of his specimens, supposed to be the male, differs in no 

 respect from the rest, except that the elytra are contracted 

 towards the apex. 



97. Trichopteryx Kirbii, Rev. A. Matthews, Ent. 



Monthly Mag. vol. i. p. 175 (described). 

 The diagnostic characters given by Mr. Matthews for this 

 new species (of which two specimens, male and female, were 

 taken by that gentleman under damp litter in the Norfolk 

 Marshes, in April, 1863) are as follows: — '* Ovate, very 

 " convex, clothed with longish yellow pubescence, covered 

 " with small distinct tubercles, closely arranged without 

 " order, with the interstices deeply alutaceous, with a long 

 " deep transverse fovea on each side of the thorax extend- 

 ** ing from the posterior angle nearly to the scutellum ; 

 *' antennae piceous; the basal joints of all the tarsi enlarged 

 *' in the male." 



98. Trichopteryx lata, Motschulsky, Bull, de Moscou, 



1845 ; Rev. A. Matthews, Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. i. 



p. 174. 

 From Mr. Matthews' note it appears that this species is 

 mixed in collections with T. fasckularis and T. grandi- 

 collis; from the former of which it may be known by its 



