60 COLEOPTERA. 



Of older authors it appears that the pratensis of Ent. 

 Heft, is composed of various species, including our sutu- 

 ralis; Illiger considers it as a var. of atricillaf &c., &c. 

 Kutschera remarks that Stephens, Redtenbacher, Zotterstedt 

 and Bach adopt Gyllenhal's species, without adding any- 

 thing to a knowledge of it ; and that he finds it represented 

 in collections by the species above alluded to, as well as by 

 pellucida and Icevis. He himself appears to think it comes 

 nearest to hallofcB, an opinion in which Mr. Waterhouse 

 has concurred, as testified by the synonymy of his " Cata- 

 logue." 



The T. ferrvginea, Foudr., of Mr. Crotch's " Cata- 

 logue," 2nd Ed., if depending upon a specimen in Dr. 

 Power's Collection (named, as I am informed, by M. 

 Allard), must I think be referred to T. Waterhousei. The 

 true ferruginea was, of course, well known to Herr Kut- 

 schera vv'hen describing the latter species. It is remarkable 

 for its strong, close, and confused punctuation. 



63. Thyamis patruelis, Allard; Ent. Ann., 1868, p. 74. 



Mr. Waterhouse's ** sp. 26," originally named lateralis, 

 111., by M. Allard, and subsequently described by him as 

 patrueliSf has been returned by Herr Kutschera as lateralis^ 

 111., var., in spite of the discrepancies pointed out by Mr. 

 Waterhouse between the two insects. Herr L. v. Heyden, 

 Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1807, 383, records Mr. Waterhouse's 

 insect from Frankfort and Styria. 



I have received further examples from Dr. Sharp of the 

 species taken by him in a salt marsh at Dumfries, and which 

 I mentioned in the last "Annual" as not separable from 

 Mr. Waterhouse's examples taken at Darenth on Verbascum, 



