78 COLEOPTERA. 



four certainly indigenous examples of this insect, usually, 

 but erroneously, considered to be the female of C. IG-gut- 

 tata, of which he has botli sexes. 



53. Lathridius carbonarius, (Chevrolat) Mannerheim, 



Versuch ein. Mon. Darst. d. Kilf. Coit. u. Lathr., 



p. 103, 42. 

 Taken in quantity during the past autumn by Charles 

 Turner in the New Forest, and given to me, with the above 

 name, by Mr. E. W. Janson, by whose authority I register 

 it here. 



It differs from L. minutus (apart from other characters) 

 in its average smaller size, more elongate and linear shape,, 

 opaque appearance and shorter antennae, and in the very 

 evident oblique impression on each elytron below the base. 



54. EuPLECTus Easterbrookianus, Leach, Zool. Journ. 



vol. 2, p. 445; Steph. Man. Biit. Col. p. 349,2732; 



E. Parfitt, Nat. Hist, of Devon, Part ii, Coleopteray 



p. 24. 

 Mr. Parfitt remarks thus in his Catalogue concerning the 

 above insect: — "What this species really is, I know not; it 

 was a desideratum with Mr. Stephens, and I have never seen 

 it. Mr. Waterhouse does not even give it as a synonym, but 

 Dr. Leach was too accurate an authority to be passed over in 

 silence." 



On this (lack of) evidence, it would, perhaps, have been 

 as well to have avoided bringing such an obscurity forward. 

 Denny does not mention it ; and Aube (Mon. Psel., p. 61) 

 reproduces the Leachian description in inverted commas,, 

 with the remark " insecto inviso." 



