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men is delicately, closely and evenly longitudinally striated 

 beneath; the corresponding part in the male of O. tene- 

 hricosus having the longitudinal striae stronger and less even, 

 being not so closely packed in the middle as at the sides. 



Mr. Crotch (Ent. No. 33, p. 136) considers we certainly 

 have two very distinct species, for which (without, as he says, 

 entering into the question whether we have '^UeYXxiisfuscipes 

 or not) he gives Stierlin's sexual characters heiweewjuscipes 

 and ienebricosus. I have seen none such. 



Larinus ebeneus, Marsham, Ent. Brit. 270, 100, Cur- 

 culio (A. b. * * * *) ; G. R. Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. 

 ed. 2. 

 Mr. Crotch (loc. cit. p. 135) restores Marsham's name 



as identical with and prior to the carlince of Olivier. 



Tychius lineatulus, Brisout; Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. 

 ed. 2. 

 Mr. Crotch (loc. cit. p. 134) states that the T. polylineatus 

 of Waterhouse must be referred to this name, which, how- 

 ever, he infers cannot be retained. 



Tychius curtus, Brisout ; Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. ed. 2. 

 Mr. Crotch (loc. cit.) states that the true T. junceus does 

 not occur in this country ; and that Walton's insect of that 

 name corresponds with the above species. 



Tychius squamulatus, Schon., Cure, iii, 404, 5j G. R. 

 Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. ed. 2. 

 Mr. Crotch (loc. cit.) remarks that the ochreous-scaled 

 T. Kirhii of Waterhouse, generally known as T, JlavicoUis, 



is certainly this species. 



