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therein given as a good species. In fact, it is omitted there- 

 from altogether, as from Waterhouse's Catalogue. Without 

 attaching any value to Holme's species, I may repeat his 

 statement that it is barely 2 lines long, and distinguishable 

 from all others of the genus (except fii,scipes) by its black 

 legs and antennas. Stephens' exponent of it appears to be a 

 very small black form of Q. fulfjidus. 



106. Philonthus punctiventris, Ktz.; E. C. Rye, I. c. 



There appears to be a prior PhilontJius of this name, de- 

 scribed by (Kirby) Stephens, but which is only a deformity of 

 P. varians. If Dr. Kraatz's insect be different from tempo- 

 ralis, Muls. (M. Fauvel tells me that, in his opinion and that 

 of M. Baudi and Herr Scriba, the two are identical), the 

 name rhcBticus proposed by Dr. Stierlin may stand for it. 

 M. Fauvel has kindly lent me a specimen of true P. tempo- 

 ralis, which, in the punctuation of its square, flattened head, 

 and in general facies, is utterly unlike any British species 

 that has come under my observation. 



107. Lathrobium angustatum, Boisduval et Lac, Faun. 



Ent. Paris, i, 424 ; Er. ; Kr., Ins. Deutschl. ii, 

 678; D. Sharp, Ent. Mo. Mag. v, 197. 

 Dr. Sharp points out that this species usually represents 

 Id. rujipenne in this country, and remarks that he has only 

 seen the true insect of that name in the collections of 

 Dr. Power and Mr. Crotch, besides in his own, and that 

 the only locality he knows for it is in the Norfolk fens. 

 I believe the late H. Squire took it in Horning Fen. L. an- 

 gustatum has been taken plentifully by the Rev. A. Matthews 

 near Gumley, also by Mr. Waterhouse on Wandsworth 

 Common, by many collectors on Folkestone Warren, and is 

 (under the name of rvjipenne) probably the species recorded 



