NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1869. 91 



marks in Murray's Monograph, which are, liowever, scarcely 

 sufficiently conclusive as evidence of the identity of these 

 supposed species. 



126. ScYDM^NUS FiMETARius, Thoms. (Eucoruius) ; Ent. 



Ann., 1869 ; T. J. Bold, Ent. Mo. Mag., v, 246. 

 Mr. Bold's notes the occurrence of this insect, always 

 on boards lying on the edges of hot-beds, near Newcastle, 

 and points out that its elytra are proportionately narrower 

 than in the allied hirticoUis. Both Dr. Sharp and I have 

 observed, also, that the joints of the antennae are compar- 

 tively longer and thinner in the latter species. Although 

 Denny's hirticoUis is correct, I have no doubt that the insects 

 representing that species in most, if not all, of the British 

 collections, will be found to be fimetarius. That species 

 seems common in many parts of the country ; but the true 

 hirticoUis has only come under my notice from the Norfolk 

 fens and Weybridge. 



127. ScYDMJENUS Wetterhallii, Gyll., Ins. Suec, iii, 



683; Fairm. et Lab., 350 ; E. C. Rye, 1. c, 249. 



quadratuSf Miill. et Kunze, Mon. der Ameisenk.,135 



Sturm, 12. 



hirtus, Sahib., Ins. Fenn., 97. 

 This is ascribed to Britain in Gemminger & v. Harold's 

 Cat. Col., ii ; but I cannot suggest any grounds for the re- 

 ference, beyond the fact of there being a supposed S. hirtus, 

 Sahlb=, in Stephens' Illustr. (Mand. v, 427) and Manual 

 (343), not accounted for in the synonymy of Wat. Cat., and 

 the description of which is apparently correct enough (copied, 

 doubtless, from the author quoted, without regard to the 

 insect represented) to mislead any one not sufficiently ac- 

 quainted with the Stephensian system. 



