62 COLEOPTERA. 



66. Sph^roderma centaure^, Steph., Wat. Cat. 



Herr Kutschera (Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 

 vol. V, p. 164) objects to the substitution of this name for the 

 usually recognized testacea, Fab., in spite of the two types 

 of the latter insect in the Banksian Coll., Brit. Mus., agree- 

 ing with the larger species, known on the Continent as 

 carduiy Gyll., because Fabricius, in Ent. Syst. and Syst. El., 

 applies to his insect the words " thorace et elytris Icevis- 

 simis/' which character cannot, as Herr Kutschera thinks, 

 be applied to the larger species. But such negative evidence 

 surely cannot be allowed to annul the types named by Fa- 

 bricius himself, which I have examined, and which are very 

 large specimens of the testacea of Wat. Cat. ; especially 

 since it must be remembered that Fabricius described his 

 insect when the other and less punctured one was unknown, 

 — that there really is very little difference between the two, 

 both being delicately punctured, — and that Fabricius' magni- 

 fier was probably not quite so strong as a " Coddington." 



67. Trichopteryx anthracina, Matthews j Auct., Ent. 

 M. Mag., vol. V, p. 9. 



The Rev. A. Matthews records the capture of many 

 specimens of this insect in Sherwood Forest in 1867. It 

 was originally described by him in the E. M. Mag. from the 

 Canaries, and has, apparently, not hitherto been recorded as 

 occurring elsewhei'c. 



Its small size, deep black colour and short black antennas 

 easily distinguish it, according to Mr. Matthews, from all others 

 of the first division of the genus, in which it must be placed 

 and in which the thorax is much dilated at the base, with 



