NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1866. 69 



same place by Messrs. Sharp and Crotch. These Scotch spe- 

 cimens closely resemble jB". iopterum (lucidum^ Er.), but 

 differ in being rather smaller and more linear, with the tho- 

 rax rather more contracted behind, and more invariably bi- 

 foveolate, and the punctuation throughout closer and not so 

 deep. The antennae, also, are more slender, the apical joints 

 not being so transverse. 



Heer omits to maik the closeness of the punctuation, and 

 does not notice the thoracic foveas. 



I am informed that Chevrier's types of H. Seerii are 

 nothing but ^. concinnum; with which, however, Heer's 

 description cannot possibly accord. 



32. Anthobium lapponicum, Mann., Brach. 52, 13 ; 



Thoms., Skand. Col. iii, 203, 2; G.,R. Crotch, Cat. 



Brit. Col. ed. 2. 

 I presume this to be founded on a specimen takeji by Mr. 

 Sharp at Rannoch. The species is distinguished from A. 

 minutum by its shorter testaceous elytra, and its deHcately 

 and less thickly punctured thorax, which is foveolated at the 

 base, and slightly channelled on the disc. It seems to fre- 

 quent Caltha palustris. 



33. Megarthrus Bellevoyii, Saulcy, Ann. de la Soc. 



Ent. de France, 1862, 70 ; G. R. Crotch, Cat. Brit. 

 Col. ed. 2. 

 sinuatocolliSj Lac, var., De Mars. ; Crotch, Cat. ed. 1. 



34. Anisotoma silesiaca (Frontisp.,fig. 4), Kraatz, Stett. 



Ent. Zeit. 1852, 380 ; D. Sharp, Proc. Ent. Soc. 19 



Nov. 1866. 

 Mr. Sharp captured a single specimen of this fine insect 

 at Invercannich, at the foot of Glen AfFrick, Inverness-shire, 

 in July last. The species was formerly introduced by Mr. 



