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COLEOPTERA. 



Crotcli on the authority of a large specimen of A. ovalis, 

 named silesiaca by a continental authority. 



This insect is allied to A.furva, and has very strongly 

 punctured elytra. The male is readily distinguishable by its 

 strongly widened middle tarsi, undentate posterior femora, 

 and not elongate, shghtly arched, posterior tibiae. The female 

 differs from the same sex oi A. Triepkii and" A. dubia l?y its 

 darker colour, more ovate and convex build, and narrower, 

 posteriorly truncate tliorax ; and from A. ohesa by its darker 

 club, much narrower and anteriorly contracted thorax, &c. 



35. Gnathoncus (Saprinus) punctulatus, Thoms., 



Skand. Col. iv, 242, 2 ; G. R. Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. 



ed. 2 ; Ent. 32, 123 ; Proc. Ent. Soc. 19 Nov. 186(5. 



A single specimen taken near London by Mr. Janson. It 



appears to be much smaller than even the smallest S. rotun- 



datusy and to have no trace of the sutural stria. 



36. Epur^a immunda, Er., Germ. Zeits. iv, 269, 9; id. 



Ins. Deutsch. iii, 145, 6; G. R. Crotch, Cat. Brit. 

 Col. ed. 2; id. Proc. Ent. Soc. 19 Nov. 1866. 

 Mr. Crotch records the capture of nine specimens of this 

 insect under birch-bark, at Invercannich, Inverness-shire, in 

 the summer of this year. 



It is smaller than E. deleta, less broadly margined, of a 

 saturated reddish-yellow colour, and clothed with more scanty, 

 finer, and more depressed yellowish pubescence. 



37. Epur^a variegata, Herbst; Er., Ins. Deutschl. iii, 



146, 7 j T. Blackburn, Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. iii, p. 

 93. 

 Four specimens of this handsome insect were taken by 

 Mr. Blackburn from fungi on rotten birches near Bannoch, 



