116 COLEOPTERA. 



is a brilliant pitchy-black, with the antennae and legs ferru- 

 ginous-brown, and the elytra reddish-brown, darker at the 

 base and apex. 



There is another Pselaphidean, Tychus ihericus, Motsch., 

 recorded as British (as noted in Ent. Ann., 1855, 121) in 

 Dr. Schaum's paper above alluded to, on the authority of 

 specimens taken by Mr. Wollaston in Cornwall, at Pentreale, 

 near Launceston ; this insect is also referred to in Ent. Annual, 

 1864, having been included in the 1st Edition of Mr. Crotch's 

 Catalogue of Biitish Coleoptera. I possess some of these 

 specimens, given to me by Mr. Wollaston, and clearly agree 

 with his own and Dr. Schaum's opinion that they must be 

 attributed to climatic colour vars. of T. niger. I presume 

 Mr. Crotch agrees in this opinion, as the name does not ap- 

 pear in the 2nd Edition of his Catalogue. T. ibericus, how- 

 ever, is still given as distinct in continental catalogues, and 

 has even attained the troublesome dignity of possessing a 

 synonym, viz., dkhrous, Schmidt-Gobel (Dissert, inaug. de 

 Psel. Faun. Pragensis, 1836, 18). 



Dr. Schaum, 1. c, also refers to JEuplectus Easterbrook- 

 ianusj Leach (lately proposed to be revived by Mr. Parfitt, 

 as mentioned in a recent Ent. Annual), which Dr. Aube in 

 1834 could make nothing of, and which Dr. Schaum thinks 

 should be erased from the list, as the characters given are 

 so short as not to enable anyone to recognize the species, and 

 the typical specimen is lost. The name, hovvevei', still 

 stands in Gemminger & von Harold's Catalogue as repre- 

 senting a species. 



179. " Bryaxis" nigricans. Leach, Vigors' Zool. Journal, 

 ii, art. xlviii (1826), p. 453; Gemm. & v. H., 1. c; 

 E. C. Rye, 1. c. {nigricornis, errore typog.). 

 Gemminger and von Harold convert the Pselaphus nigri' 



cans of Leach into a Bryaxis, and refer it to Britain. The 



