128 Mr. F. Holme on the British Brachelytra. 



Philonthus coruscus. In his description of this species, Mr. 

 Stephens omits to notice that the scutellum, suture, and base of 

 the elytra narrowly, are brassy black ; and the occurrence of these 

 distinctions in the specimens which I took in Scilly, led me to 

 doubt whether my insects might not be distinct, till I ascertained 

 their identity by comparison with Mr. Kirby's specimens. 



Gabrins villosulus has occurred near Meysey Hampton in Glou- 

 cestershire, where I have also taken Gyrohypnus tricolor of even 

 larger size than the Cornish specimens. 



I find that I was wrong in supposing that Mr. Rudd had taken 

 the insect which 1 characterized in the Ent. Trans, ii. 64, as 

 Remus sericeus, on the coast of Yorkshire : his specimens were 

 from the Isle of Wight, and I am indebted to him for the know- 

 ledge of a sexual distinction — the male having the last abdominal 

 segment notched beneath. Mr. Shuckard (Elements of Ento- 

 mology, i. 110) considers that it " differs too sliglitly from Cajius 

 to constitute a distinct genus ;" and with Cajius he accordingly 

 places it : but independent of the differences in tlie trophi, &c., I 

 think the contrast between the polished thorax of Cqfias with its 

 double row of large punctures, and the closely punctured one of 

 Remus with its dorsal callus, too great to admit of their being 

 placed together: and Mr. Stephens (in the "Manual") has sanc- 

 tioned its establishment as a genus, placing it between Heterothops 

 and Othhis. Mr. Rudd had distinguished the specimens which 

 he placed in the British Museum by the MS. name of Menapius 

 grisescens. 



I have noticed that most of the Lathrohia, in alarm or death, 

 double the long flexible end of the abdomen under the body 

 instead of over it, 



Omalium mesomelas mihi. Size and dimensions of 0. sordidmn, 

 of which it may possibly be a very high coloured variety; bright 

 rufous ; head black ; disk of elytra suffused with deep cyaneous. 

 It resembles in colour O. iopterum, but is a much wider insect. 

 Near Meysey Hampton, Gloucestershire, in a rotten oak-stump, 

 Sept. 1838. 



