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2. Of A. globus the only specimen is much mutilated, but 
appears to be a pale variety of 4. nigrinum, Sturm. 
3. A. atrum, four examples; the type is 4. atrum, as are also 
two of the others; the fourth being 4. levigatum. 
4. A. ferrugineum, one specimen; it is a pale variety of 4. 
nigrinum, Sturm. 
5. A. seminulum, two specimens; the one supposed to be the 
type is A. marginatum, Sturm, the other being really 
A. seminulum. 
6. A. orbiculatum, two examples, both of which are 4. leui- 
gatum, Erichson. 
7. A. mandibulare, a single specimen; it is 4. marginatum, 
Sturm. 
8. A. nigrinum, four specimens; the type is A. levigatum, 
as are also the other three examples. 
9. A. affine, one specimen ; itis also 4. levigatum, Erichson. 
10. 4. carbonarium, two specimens; the type has a label 
marked ‘‘aquaticum” attached to it; both are Chetarthria 
seminulum. 
11. A. minutum, two specimens, both of which belong to the 
genus Clambus. 
12. A. nanum, seven specimens, all of which are, I think, Clam- 
bus pubescens. 
Thomson in his ‘ Skandinaviens Coleoptera” has separated 
three species of Agathidium (A. lavigatum, A. seminulum and A. 
badium) from the rest of the genus, and made for them a new 
genus, Cyphoceble ; this, however, I have not been able to retain, 
for its characters are not constant in the three species that com- 
pose it. For instance, 4. levigatum, Erich., and A. seminulum, 
Linn., are considered to belong to Cyphoceble, whilst 4. atrum, 
Paykull, is still left in the genus 4gathidium ; and yet there is as 
much difference in the structure of the metasternum between 
levigatum and seminulum as between levigaium and atrum; on 
the other hand seminulum approaches atrum in the relative position 
of the coxze more than /evigatum does. 
1. Agathidium nigripenne, Kugel. 
Head and thorax bright red, extremely finely and obsoletely 
punctured ; elytra black, rather thickly and not finely punctured, 
with a well marked sutural stria extending from the apex nearly 
to the base ; legs and antennz red, the two first joints of the club 
of the latter rather darker, 7th joint larger than either the 6th or 
