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crenatus, Brachonyx indigena, and most of those formerly 

 obtained by him ; but he has also sent us both sexes of Py- 

 vochvoa pectinicornis (of which, if 1 mistake not, only one 

 British specimen was known, taken by Mr. Buxton) ; Pisso- 

 des notatiis, of which there are, I think, two specimens in the 

 British Museum, taken near Edinburgh ; and a fine new 

 species of Anobium, which I will here record as 



Angbium nigrinum, Sturm. (1837) and Mulsant. 

 (Ernobius, Thorns.) 



distinguished in his tabulation by having the thorax equal 

 on the disk and not tuberculate, and the joints of the an- 

 tennaj 5—8, contiguous, short and transverse. The species 

 with punctate elytra and elongate slender tarsi form a genus, 

 separated from Anobinu), under the name Leiozoum, by MM, 

 Mulsant and Ray in their Essai Opus. xiii. 92 (1863). The 

 propriety of this step had, however, been previously pointed 

 out by M. Thomson (Sk. Col. i. 88, 1859), and he has ap- 

 plied the name Ernobius, which must therefore be retained, 

 if Anobium is to be split into two genera. The insect could 

 only be mistaken for Anobium molle, Abietis, or plumbeum, of 

 our British species. It is utterly unlike the first two in bein"- 

 dark-coloured, as well as in other respects ; and from the last 

 in being more elongate, less glossy, having shorter and closer 

 pubescence, the sides of the thorax much less emarginate 

 behind, and the elytra finely granulated. Mulsant's descrip- 

 tion answers well : — " Oblong-elongate, subcylindric, cinereo- 

 pnbescent, shining black. Palpi and tarsi reddish. Head 

 and thorax finely and densely granulated. Elytra finely and 

 roughly punctured. Thorax transverse, narrow in front, con- 

 vex, subeqnal, finely channelled in the middle. All the 

 angles obtuse and rounded. Elytra subparallel and rounded. 

 Antennae elongate. Tarsi slender. Length 5^ lines." Our 

 specimens agree with one in Mr. Crotch's collection, which 

 was in that of Mr. Wollaston : it is an old sjiecimen, on a 

 point of card, without date or locality, but named hy him 

 Anobium nigvinum years ago. There is a specimen of it in 

 the European collection of the British Museum, under the 

 name of Anobium plumbeum. — John A. Power ; 52, Burton 

 Crescent, July 21, 1855. 



