NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1869. 119 



Museum, so named by Dr. Leach, must be referred to this 

 insect, which differs from T. hremcorne in its lighter yellow 

 colour, i-ather less size and smaller eyes, and in having its 

 elytra shorter, more contracted at the base, and sub-emar- 

 ginate on the apical margin. 



Denny, in 1825 (Mon. Psel.), assigned ^^ Euplectus 

 Kunziij Leach, M.S." as a synonym to T. brevicorne. 



From a note in Dr. Schaum's own handwriting, kindly 

 given me by Mr. Wollaston, it appears that there was in 

 1847 a specimen of T, hrevipenne in the latter gentleman's 

 collection, mixed with T. hrevicorne. 



No mention o^T, brevipenne occurs in any modern list of 

 British Coleoptera; and, with regard to Mr. WoUaston's 

 specimen, I can only repeat the observations above made 

 upon Bryaxis hcemoptera. I have recently searched in the 

 British Museum collections for Leach's *' Euplectus Kunzei,^^ 

 but withont success ; the other Leachian types, however, are 

 extant, being incorporated with the modern collection of 

 British Coleoptera. 



182. MiJRMiDius ovALis, von Beck, Beitr. zur bairisch. 



Ins., 1817, No. 1, 7 {Hister) ; Duval, Gen., ii, 227, 



PI. 56, fig. 276; G. R. Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col., Ed. 



2; Ent. Ann., 1866, p. 57; G. C. Champion, Ent. 



Mo. Mag., V, 219. 



ferrugineuSf Leach, Trans. Linn. Soc. (1822), xiii, 



1,41. 



Ceuthocerus advena^ (Schupp.) Germ. ; Redt. 



? Sphceridium JVinthericBf Fab. 



This puzzling little species, attributed to Britain in the 



2nd Ed. of De Marseul's Catalogue, and re-introduced into 



our lists by Mr. Crotch among his genera incertce sedisj 



appears to have been found long ago by Dr. Power in 



