NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1866. 73 



females, the identification is not made with certainty. In 

 the Proc. Ent. See, Mr. Crotoh records one female, and 

 appears to have no doubt of the species. 



42. Meligethesobscurus, Erichs., Ins. Deutsch. iii, 203, 



42; G. R. Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. ed. 2; id. Ent. 



32, 121; Proc. Ent. Soc. 19 Nov. 1806. 

 Two specimens in Mr. Wollaston's collection from the 

 North of England. The insect seems to nearly resemble M. 

 erythropuSj but to be longer and larger than that species, 

 and to have dark legs. 



43. Cerylon semistriatum, Perris, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. 



de France, 1865, p. 507, 4 ; D. Sharp, Proc. Ent. 



Soc. 19 Nov. 1866. 

 Mr. Sharp believes he is correct in referring to this insect a 

 species of Cerylon which he had separated under the MS. 

 name of pa7X-epunctatum, though the latter does notagree in 

 all points with M. Perris' description. 



M. Perris states his insect to differ from C. histeroides in 

 its longer, more convex, much more finely punctured thorax, 

 which is more narrowed in front, and is enlarged regularly 

 behind ; also in its more convex and oval elytra, on which 

 there are only five or six striae, which are effaced in the lower 

 third, and of which the interstices are more evidently punc- 

 tulated. 



44. SiLVANUs BiDENTATus, Fab., Syst. El. i, 317, 28 



(Derrnestes) ; Er., Ins. Deutschl. iii, 338, 3; M. 



Young, Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. ii, 181. 

 Mr. M. Young records the capture by himself, under fir 

 bark near Paisley, of the above species, determined for him by 

 Mr. D. Sharp. 



