56 COLEOPTERA. 



Bowmont, at Yetholme ; more examples were seen (though 

 not captured) in company with ThinoMus longipennis. 



It may be recognized by its narrow and parallel form, its 

 thorax being evidently broader than long, and very much 

 narrowed behind, and its elytra not dilated at the sides, and 

 scarcely wider, but more than three times longer, than the 

 thorax. It is | lin. long, and of an opaque black colour. 



The Rev. A. Matthews has examined this speciflien, and 

 agrees with Mr. Sharp in considering it as undescribed. 



Species new to Britain. 



1. Amara ALPiNA, Fab. ; GylL, Ins. Suec. 2, 103, 21 {Har- 

 'palus); T. Blackburn, Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. iii, p. 92. 



A rather worn specimen of this most interesting insect was 

 taken by Mr. Blackburn on the summit of " Grayvel," 

 Rannoch, early in July last ; and the Rev. T. A. Marshall 

 informs me that he, also, found an example of it at the same 

 place. The species must be very rare there; for I was 

 collecting at the same time on the same mountain, and turned 

 over great quantities of stones, &c., in all sorts of places on it, 

 without finding a single specimen; and the amount of work 

 expended on " Gray vel " by the above two gentlemen and 

 myself on our repeated excursions to it would surely have 

 produced more than two examples, if the insect were at all 

 common. I expect, however, that we were too late in the year 

 for the main body of the brood. 



Although placed by De Marseul in the sub-genus Cyrto. 

 notuSj it does not, to my eye, suggest any idea of resemblance 

 to our species of that section ; but is exceedingly like A. 

 {Bradytiis) apricaria, from which its larger size, the deep 

 impressions on the front of its head (which is very wide). 



