30 COLEOPTERA. 



Wat. Cat.), the absence in the former of setae towards the 

 lateral maroin of the fourth ventral segment of the abdomen. 

 But there is still a very great confusion among the species of 

 this section of Philonthus, in spite of the recent }3aj3er upon 

 tliem by Dr. Kraatz in the Berlin Ent. Zeit. (1868, p. 351), 

 in which he recognizes temporaliSf Muls., tenuicornis, 

 Muls., addendusj Shaip, and his own punctiventris, and in- 

 cidentally mentions succicola, carhonarius and ceneus. P. 

 temporalis, from the persistent way in which he likens it to 

 lucens (our readers will remember the former confusion in 

 this country about that species), and from its wanting the 

 little keels in the middle of the transverse furrows at the base 

 of the upper side of the first abdominal segments, would 

 seem to point very closely to the insect formerly known here 

 as functhenii'is, afterwards said to be tenuicornis, and now 

 declared by Thomson to be carhonarius. P. tenuicornis is 

 quoted from Fuss and Scriba, and, as regards England, 

 from Mr. Crotch, by Dr. Kraatz, — who, however, does not 

 seem to speak of the species of his own personal knowledge. 

 In like manner he only quotes Mr. Crotch for Dr. Sharp's 

 addendus. His own punctiventris he states to have the 

 impressed line at the base of the first abdominal segments 

 almost entirely straight, and quotes two specimens from the 

 Piedmontese and Rhaetic Alps. 



As regards P. addendus, Dr. Sharp informs me that he 

 has forwarded specimens of it to Thomson, who returns 

 them as his succicola, — \\\i\\ the description of which insect it 

 appears to me simply in)possible to reconcile them, if regard 

 be had even only to the male character of the emargination 

 of the ventral abdominal segments given by Thomson him- 

 self; for he states the 6tli segment in his succicola to be 

 eraarginate as well as the 7th (as in ceneus), which exactly 

 fits our notion of his species, but does not agree with ad- 



