NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1868. 29 



and strongly punctured, its abdomen non-versicolorous and 

 legs black. 



Specimens of this insect are in the collections of Mr. 

 Waterliouse, Drs. Power and Sharp and myself. 



Thomson appears to have described the species from a 

 single female example, found by himself under bark of a 

 fallen birch. 



It is rather curious that Thomson should not in any way 

 refer to Gravenhorst's " Uebero-ano-sverwandtschaften unter 

 den Arten der Gattung Quedius," published in the Stettin. 

 Ent. Zeit., 1847, p. 211, referred to by Kraatz, which con- 

 tains so copious a notice of the different forms of Q.fulgidus; 

 and also that he has not i-etained the name Julgidus for 

 one of his species, especially as the Fabrician type is recorded 

 by Erich>son as having red elytra. 



Herr Fuss, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1862, 428, recoi-ds the cap- 

 ture of a specimen of Q. fidgidus whereof one eh'tron was 

 red, and the other dark. One wonders to which of Thom- 

 son's species this example could be referred. 



25. Philonthus carbonarius, Gyll. j Thorns., Skand. 

 Col. i, 157; G. R. Crotch, 1. c, p. 67. 

 Mr. Crotch states that this insect is said by Thomson to 

 be identical with our s|jecimens of tenuicorniSf Muls., some of 

 which he has forwarded to Thomson. This tenuicornis I 

 presume represents the inst?ct formerly known here as punc- 

 fiventrisj not uncommon under cut grass and vegetable 

 matter, and in which I certainly fail to detect the fusco- 

 piceous legs, apex, and margins of ventral segments referied 

 to as characteristic of the true carbonarius by Thomson. 

 Thomson, in his vol. ix, p. 147, gives as a fresh character for 

 distinguishing carbonarius from his succicola {carbonarius. 



