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by Mr. Fitch, while one is new to our fauna, and another will 
probably have to be restored to its original place in the British 
list from which it was expunged by Dr. Sharp. In addition to 
my list, which numbered eleven species, I have now to add nine, 
five of which Mr. Fitch does not seem to have met with in 
his researches, although Dr. Power seems to have come across 
some of them. The first is the curious and spider-like Niptus 
hololeucus, Fald., covered with its golden pubescence, of which I 
found four, followed by the rare Monotoma quadrifoveolata, Aub., 
seventeen in number; neither of these seem to have been 
observed by Mr. Fitch, or their companion Alphitobius piceus, Ol. 
(five). The shining chestnut-brown Gibbiwin scotias, Fab., was 
represented by two specimens only, while Ptinus fur, L., numbered 
some fourteen. Triboliwnm ferrugineum, Fab., was in large 
numbers; but of 7’. confuswm, the rarer of the two, I only found 
three specimens, although I took especial pains in hope of finding 
more. Now follows a species which is neither in Cox’s ‘ Hand- 
book of Coleoptera’ nor Dr. Sharp’s ‘Catalogue,’ and neither 
Dr. Power nor Mr. Fitch seems to have met with it. Thisisa 
small distinct form of Lemophleus. Mr. Waterhouse is of opinion 
that it can be no other than L. pisillus, Schén., of Waterhouse’s 
and Rye’s Catalogue, or the L. minimus of Stephens, and which 
he speaks of as occurring in and near London, in warehouses, &e. : 
it is not improbable that the smallness of this insect caused it to 
be overlooked by the before-mentioned gentlemen, it not being 
above half a line in length, and when turned out on paper it for a 
long time feigns death, so that it might easily be passed over; of 
this I found about forty specimens, some of which may now be 
seen in the British Museum Collection. 
The last of my coleopterons found on this occasion is the new 
addition to our fauna, but there seems to be some doubt about its 
being truly indigenous. This insect appears to have been met 
with before, but only solitary individuals; and I believe specimens 
have been in the British Museum Collection for some years, but 
without any name. Occurring to me as it did, this drew the 
attention of other coleopterists to it, and, after a careful exami- 
nation, Mr. C. O. Waterhouse has described it as a new genus 
and species of heteromerous Coleoptera, under the name of 
Latheticus oryze; his description will be found published in the 
‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History’ for February, 1880. 
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