THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 3-3.] SEPTEMBER, MDCCCLXVI. [Price 6d. 



Bevision of the ' Catalogue of British Coleoptera.^ 

 By G. R. Crotch, Esq. 



(Continued from page 112). 



Choleva longula, Kelln. — I do not know what M. de Mar- 

 seul's authority may be, but I imagine he has acted here on 

 slight grounds in stating that the C. longula of Kellnev and 

 Murray are two species. Mr. Murray saw types from Kraatz 

 himself, which agreed with what he had seen in England. 

 I have seen Mr. Bold's specimen, and have one myself, a 

 female : it seems to me to be Thomson's pilicornis without 

 doubt, and is certainly different from tristis ; the eighth joint 

 of the antennae is much larger, and the femora are simple be- 

 neath, in the male. This difference in the antennae, which 

 could hardly go unremarked, leads me to doubt whether it is 

 the real C. longula, Kelln., or whether that is founded, as 

 Mr. Murray supposed, on elongate forms of C. tristis, with a 

 thinner club. Certainly I have seen specimens quite answering 

 to the description. C. grandicoUis is very distinct, the male 

 characters being unlike any other species. 



Silpha dispar. — This is often represented by specimens of 

 S. opaca in collections, and appears to be rare, though it is 

 perhaps only overlooked. S. opaca may be known at once 

 by the 4-jointed club to its antennae. S. dispar and S. 

 siuuala resemble each other more, but the former has the 

 elytra very little produced in the male, and the interstices are 

 clothed with a fine golden rather scattered pubescence. 



Anisotoma. — A. silesiaca of my Catalogue was founded on 

 a specimen of A. ovalis, as has been already pointed out. 

 A. scita, brought forward at the same tinje, was founded on 

 A. ornata, Fnn., a species not then registered as British. 

 Cyrtusa pauxilla and Agathidium conformis appear to me to 

 be probably good species, but they do not entirely accord 



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