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177. Bryaxis assimilis, Curtis, Brit. Ent., vii, t. 315 



(18-29) ; Schaum, Zool., 1847, p. 1933; Gemm. & v. 

 Harold, Cat. Col., ii ; E. C. Rye, 1. c. 

 This insect is not accounted for as a synonym in Water- 

 house's CatalojTue, and does not appear in any modern list of 

 recognized British Coleoptera, It is, therefore, given as 

 distinct by Gemminger and v. Harold. 



178. Bryaxis h^moptera, Aube, Rev. de la Fam. des 



Psel., 108 (Ann. de la Soc. Ent. Fr., 1844) ; Schaum, 

 1. c. ; T. V. Wollaston, ib., 1943. 

 xanthoptera, Aube, Mon. Psel., nee Reich. 



This insect, recorded by Mr. Wollaston as taken by him- 

 self at the extreme point of the Isle of Portland, called 

 Portland Bill, in company with a species of ant, and cor- 

 roborated by the late Dr. Schaum, appears hitherto, to have 

 escaped a place in our lists, if correctly named; or correction, 

 if erroneously determined. It does not appear in the synonymy 

 of Mr. Waterhouse's Catalogue, or in Mr. Crotch's Cata- 

 logues; I mention this latter omission, as Mr. Wollaston's 

 insects have passed into Mr. Crotch's possession, and it 

 seems improbable that, if the true 3. Jicemoptera had been 

 among them, it would have escaped observation. 



Dr. Schaum records his impression that B. hcemoptera is 

 probably the prior described (and above-mentioned) B. 

 assimilis of Curtis ; and, if so, that Curtis's name must 

 stand. 



B. hcemoptera appears to have the middle fovea of the 

 thorax as large as tiie lateral foveae, and the latter situate on 

 the disc, instead of, as in xantlioptera, upon the refluxed 

 sides. It is allied to that insect and to Lefebvrii (all of them 

 having a pointed tubercle on the anterior trochanters of the 

 male), being intermediate in size between them. In colour it 



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