62 COLEOPTERA. 



miliOj ^vitll the intermediate joints of the antennae but little 

 broader than long, the outer apex of the elytra sinuated, &c. 



16. Tachinus frigidus, Er., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 256, 



21 ; Kraatz, Ins. Deutschl. ii, 401, 3 (?) ; D. Sharp, 

 Proc. Ent. See., 19 Nov. 1866. 



Mr. Sharp has taken in Inverness-shire a Tachinus 

 (female) whicli he considers different to any of our recorded 

 species, and thinks may probably be referred to the above 

 insect, of which only three specimens, all males, were known 

 to Dr. Kraatz. 



In Mr. Sharp's specimen, which is altogether smaller and 

 rather more finely punctured than its allies, the dorsal plate 

 of the seventh abdominal segment ends in three long teeth, 

 of which the middle one is the longest, its tiiin apical part 

 being longer than in T. p7'oximus or T. rufipes. The notch 

 between the middle teeth of its ventral surface is not simple, 

 but has a triangular projection at its base, as in T. pallipes. 



17. Bryoporus rufus, Er., Col. Mar. ; Gen. et Spec. 



Staph. 273, 8; Kraatz, Ins. Deutschl. ii, 454, 2; 

 E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. iii, p. m. 

 I have referred to this species, though with some slight 

 doubt, an insect taken by myself in moss at tlie top of 

 " Grayvel" near Rannoch, in July last. The Reveiend T. 

 A. Marshall also look another (and much smaller) example 

 of it in my company; and Messrs. Sharp and Crotch about 

 the same time found it under similar circumstances in 

 Inverness-shire. My example is of the size and build of 

 3Ti/ceto2)orus punctiis ; but Mr. Marshall's is considerably 

 less than that species. The structure of its palpi is, how- 

 ever, that of 13ryoporus ; and, as far as colour goes, it 

 would seem to point to the more darkly tinted B. cernuus, 



