440 Messrs. G. R. Crotch and D. Sharp’s Additions 
A G. gentili statura multo minore et thoracis punctura differt ; 
a G. minima capite punctato et abdominis ¢ structura dis- 
cedit; a G. congrua, cui colore et magnitudine proxima 
est, thorace equaliter punctato abdominisque structura bene 
distincta est. 
This species is the Sp. ? 6* of Mr. Waterhouse’s Catalogue, and 
was found near London by the zealous and indefatigable Dr. Power, 
to whom I have much pleasure in dedicating it.—G. R. C. 
8. Philonthus addendus. 
(P. temporalis, Mulsant, forte.) 
P. niger, antennis tenuioribus, capite prothoraceque nigro-eneis, 
hoc disco utrinque 4-punctato; elytris aneis, abdominis 
segmentis supra parcius punctatis, horum basibus subtus 
quam supra crebrius punctatis. 
Long. 5—54 lin. 
é abdominis segmento septimo ventrali apice emarginato, tarsis 
anticis haud dilatatis. 
Black, head and thorax brassy-black, elytra brassy (their tint a 
little greener than in P. @neus) ; the joints of the antenne from 
the fifth to the eleventh become gradually shorter but scarcely 
broader. Head with the posterior angles rounded, with four 
punctures between, and numerous small and large punctures 
behind the eyes. Thorax on each side with four discoidal punc- 
tures, the usual fine punctures at the anterior angles, and others 
along the lateral and posterior margins, the sides slightly sinuate 
before the posterior angles. ‘The elytra are scarcely longer than 
the thorax, thickly punctured and pubescent. Abdomen black and 
shining, on the upper side sparingly, on the under rather more 
closely (especially at the base of each segment), punctured, Each 
of the third and fourth segments has on the upper side a carina at 
the base. In the male the posterior margin has on the underside 
of the seventh segment a small triangular notch nearly filled up 
by a membrane, and the tarsi are scarcely visibly dilated. 
This species must be placed near P. @neus. It is, I believe, 
specifically identical with the Philonthus introduced some years 
back as British under the name of temporalis. It is very difficult, 
judging only from Mulsant’s description of his P. temporalis, to 
speak positively, but the specimens above described certainly 
appear to me irreconcilable with that description. There are 
now seven European species of this genus forming a group of 
