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recorded as British,) differs from the common dark form of 

 pusilhis, hitherto representing it in our collections and lists, 

 in being more coftvex, of a deeper black colour, and with 

 more widely punctured elytra. 



104. QuEDius MiCROPS, Grav., Stett. Ent. Zeit., viii (1847), 



p. 213; Ktz., Ins. Deutschl., ii, 501; E. C. Rye, 



1. c, V, 248. 

 In Gemminger & v. Harold's Cat. this insect is retained 

 as a distinct species and attributed to Britain, following the 

 describer. It does not appear in the synonymy of Wat. 

 Cat., but Kraatz refers to it as probably a dark specimen of 

 Erichson's semiobscurus (supposed also to be Marsham's), to 

 which species De Marseul refers it in the 2nd Edition of his 

 Catalogue. In the 3rd Edition (in " L'Abeille"), Erichson's 

 semiobscurus is identified with, and given precedence over, 

 serniceneus, Steph., which is considered to be a var. of it, — 

 semiobscurus^ Marsham, vanishing altogether from the scene. 

 In Stein's moi'e recent Catalogue, however, semiobscurus, 

 Marsh., is retained, rujipesy Er. (not of Grav.), being deposed 

 as its synonym ; and Erichson's semiobscurus is rightly de- 

 posed in favour of Stephens' seyniceneus. Q. microps, Grav., 

 is not in Stein's Cat. associated with either, but deposed to 

 the extreme end of the genus, — I presume as being unknown. 

 M. Fauvel informs me that in his opinion Q. microps is 

 nitipennis, Steph. {semiceneus, St.), and that the latter is the 

 attenuatus of Erichson and Kraatz, but not of Gyllenhal. 



105. QuEDius NiGRicoRNis, Holme, Trans. Ent. Soc, iii, 



pt. 2, 1842, p. 127 (Maphirus); E. C. Rye, I. c. 



In reviewing the 2nd part of Gemminger & v. Harold's 

 Catalogue, to which I have adverted in my introductory 

 observations, I erroneously stated that the above insect was 



1870. G 



