112 COLEOPTERAc 



Paromalus pumilio, Er. 



14:-siriatuSj Ste))h. 

 Mr. Crotch (loc. cit.) deposes Stephens' name, as not only 

 coming into collision with 14-striatiis, Gyll., but posterior to 

 Erichson's by five years. 



Cercus pedicularius, Linn. 



Mr. Crotch (loc. cit.), observes that almost the only differ- 

 ence between this species and C. bipustulatus, — which he 

 ranks as its '* sub-species" in his Cat., ed. 2,— is the length 

 of the elytra, and that even this does not hold. Surely the 

 difference in the basal joints of the antennae in the males 

 cannot have escaped him ;— to say nothing of the less strong 

 and somewhat thicker punctuation in bipustulatus, in which 

 both sexes (instead of only the male, as in pedicularms) have 

 the mandibles widened. 



I never heard of the two insects being even taken in 

 company. 



Nitidula obscura. Fab. 



Mr. Crotch (loc. cit.), states that he follows the greater 

 proportion of authors in referring the Silpha rufipes of 

 LinnaBus to Meligethes rvjipes, although the insects in his 

 collection accord with the present species : — the description 

 suiting neither. In that case, it seems to me that, if the name 

 be retained at all, it is the 3Ieligethes that requires the new 

 name. 



Cerylon angustatum, Er. 



Mr. Crotch (loc. cit.) deposes Stephens' Cferrugineunii 

 as Erichson was unable to identify it. 



Monotoma angusticollis, Gyll. 

 Mr. Crotch (loc. cit.) follows Thomson, who, as he states, 



