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pubescence : elytra and legs piceous : head broad, trans- 

 versely siibquadrate ; forehead deeply channelled : thorax 

 narrower than the head and elytra, deeply foveolate at the 

 base and obsoletely channelled : abdomen very finely punc- 

 tured. Length l^- line." 



145. Notes on certain Alterations of Nomenclature in the 

 Genus Malachius. — The smaller species of Malachius have 

 been recently formed into a genus by MM. Motschulsky and 

 Thomson ; M. Kiesenwetter also has accepted it ; the prin- 

 cipal character being that of the produced second joint of 

 the tarsi in the male, and the name Axinotarsus, Motsch., in 

 allusion to this, has been employed to distinguish them. Our 

 English species are Malachius pulicarius, F., and rubricol- 

 lis, Msh. This latter is, however, the true ruficollis, Oliv., 

 1790, which name must therefore be employed for it. M. 

 ruficollis, Fah., Er., is an Anthocomns, and should be placed 

 after A. fasciatus, under the next oldest name, terminatus, 

 Menet. (1837). The very broadly red apex to the elytra 

 and the simple tarsi will always distinguish this species. It 

 may be worth notice that a species exists (raarginalis, Lap.) 

 very near our pulicarius, Fab., distinguished easily by its tes- 

 taceous anterior tibiae. — G. R. Crotch ; University Library ^ 

 Cambridge. 



146. Notes on the Genus Tehnatophilus, with Description 

 of a New British Species. — Considerable diversity of opinion 

 has existed as to the true position of this genus, but nearly 

 all authors now concur in assigning it to the Cryptophagiclae, 

 from which indeed it differs principally by the singularly 

 formed tarsi. The species are few in number and of a uni- 

 form leaden gray colour : they are found in marshes and 

 damp ground, on flowers, and belong principally to N.Europe. 



T. Sparganii, Ahr., may be recognized at once by its 

 piceous hue and by the pale markings on the elytra. It ap- 

 pears to be an insect of Central Europe, where it is not rare, 

 but is not found in Sweden, and is very rare with us : the 

 only recent examples I have seen were taken by Mr. Brewer 

 at Horning Fen. 



T. Caricis, Oliv. The largest species of the genus. Its 

 quadrate thorax and long gray or fulvous pubescence at once 

 characterize it; the male also has the posterior tibiae dilated, 

 as well as the abdominal fovea common to all the species. 



