120 COLEOPTERA. 



obtuse and exceedingly convex shape, and the shining red 

 colour of its whole body. 



103. Lathridius testaceus, Steph., Wat. Cat. 



cordaticoUis, Aube, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de Fr. 1852. 



Mr. G. R. Crotch remarks (Ent. ii. 179, 115) that these 



insects are identical ; and that the Stephensian name, being 



accompanied by a figure and good description, must of 



course stand. 



104. Lathridius filiformis, Gyll., Wat. Cat.; M. 



Young, Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. i. p. 260. 1 



elongatus, Murray, Cat, Col. Scot., nee Curtis. 

 Mr. Morris Young records the capture of this species by 

 himself at Paisley, remarking that the few British speci- 

 mens have come mostly from Devonshire. 



It appears, also, that the L. elongatns of Murray's Scotch 

 Catalogue is recorded on the authority of a former capture 

 by Mr. Young of this species. 



105. Corticaria curta, Wollaston, Ins. Mad, 187; id. 



Cat. Mad. Col. 65; Cat. Can. Col. 149; J. A. 



Brewer, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. 6 Feb. 1865; Ent. 



Monthly Mag. vol. i. p. 244 {truncatella, Mann.) 

 Mr. Brewer has captured this species on the sea-shore, at 

 Worthing, and considers it to be C. truncatella (Mots.), 

 Mann., in Germ. Zeits. v. 59 (1844), on the authority (I 

 believe) of types in the British Museum. I am informed, 

 also, that Mr. Brewer's specimens agree with the insect 

 known to French Entomologists by that name. 



As, however, they certainly do not agree with the descrip- 

 tion of C truncatella (loc. cit.', I record them under the 



