54 COLEOPTERA. 



the description of which, according to Gemminger & v. 

 Harold's Catalogue, was published in the Bull. Soc. Nor- 

 mandie, ix, 1865, p. 287. I have been unable so inspect 

 that part of the Bulletins in which M. Fauvel's description 

 occurs, as the copy of the Transactions of the Society in 

 question belonging to the Reading Room of the British 

 Museum does not come down to quite so recent a date; but, 

 from the page given by Gemm. and v. Harold, I should 

 imagine my own publication to be entitled to priority. 



Having only a single specimen, which I was not inclined 

 to destroy by dissection, I referred my insect to Oxypoda^ on 

 account of its great structural resemblance to O. lucens. 

 The generic distinction between llyohates and Oxypoda ap- 

 pears to consist solely in the different degree of ciliation of 

 the apex of the maxillae ; though the fades of the former is 

 at first sight very different from that of the majority of the 

 latter. /. glahriventris, however, is without the character- 

 istic punctuation of its genus, though superficially resembling 

 a pallid /. forticornis. It does not appear to have been 

 found in this country since the captures mentioned in my 

 original record. 



21. Oxypoda investiqatorum, Ktz., Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., 

 1864, p. 130 ; E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag. vi, 2. 

 Having long anticipated that the insect in my collection 

 (taken in a sand-pit at Shirley) representing O. exigua 

 should be referied to this species, I have communicated on 

 the subject with Mons. A. Fauvel of Caen, who is making 

 an especial study of the group, and who corroborates me in 

 this opinion, which was originated by Mr. G. R. Crotch. 

 I have also sent types to Dr. Kraatz, but these have not yet 

 been returned. The very small size and entirely dark colour 



