NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1867. 71 



<letermination (of which they informed me at the time) 

 escaped record. 



The insect is common in moss in various parts of this 

 country, and has long been recognized by British Entomolo- 

 gists ; who could not believe it was (as the true O. jjabu- 

 imiis, Panz., appears to be, teste Stierlin, Rev. d. eur. 

 Otiorh. Art., 286) a mere colour Variety of O. ovatiiSy 

 Linn. 



It is smaller and lighter-coloured than the latter species, 

 with evidently shorter and less robust antennae and legs (the 

 posterior femora being very feebly toothed beneath) ; longer, 

 narrower and more parallel elytra, the pubescence on which 

 is as it were condensed into faint and irregular indications of 

 somewhat transverse spots ; and a less strongly tuberculated 

 diorax, the middle of which exliibils only a faint longitu- 

 dinal wrinkling in comparison with the furrows of O. ovatus. 

 In addition to most of these distinctions M. Brisout remarks 

 that it has a narrower rostrum, which is distinctly depressed 

 in the middle : the latter character I find is best observed 

 with a glass of low power. 



34. Ceuthorhynchus versicolor, Ch. Brisout, in 

 Wencker and Silbermau's Cut. des Col. de I'Alsace 

 et des Vosges, p. 131 (*' L'Abeiile," iv, 1867, xlix); 

 E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag. iii, p. 215. 



qucixicola^ Wat. Cat., nee Fab. 

 M. Brisout has now published, as above, his desciiption of 

 the species which Mr. S. R. Crotch (as recorded in the 

 " Annual," for 1867), informed u?, on the authority of the 

 former gentleman, was identical with the insect known to us 

 hitherto as C. quercicola. This insect is a Ceuthorhynchi- 

 diuSy having but six joints to the funiculus; and seems to 

 occur sparingly all over the country, having been often taken 



