APPENDIX. 407 



Deep chestnut-red above, paler beneath ; legs testaceous ; eyes black ; club 



of the antennae fuscous. 

 First taken by the Rev. A. W. Griesbach at Cambridge ; subsequently by 



myself. 



Page 49. Sp. 14. Mel. niger. Ent. Mag. (Newman) v. ii. p. 200- — Niger, 

 pvuctaiissimus, antcnnis pedibusqve piceis. (Long. corp. 5 lin.) 



Black; thickly punctured ; antennae pitchy-black, the basal and apical joints 

 being lighter than the intermediate ones ; the legs pitchy-black, the anterior 

 lightest ; the thorax and elytra are deeply punctured, and covered with a 

 short grey villosity ; the elytra are very narrow posteriorly. 



Found near London, &c. 



Page 53. Sp. 7 a. Cateretes glaber. Ent. Mag. (Newman) v. ii. jo. 200. — 



Nigerrimus, nitidisshnus, antennis pedibusque concoloribus. (Long. corp. 



f lin.) 

 Very black and shining; antennae black, club slightly downy; head, thorax, 



and elytra very black, shining, sparingly covered with a grey villosity ; elytra 



short and abruptly truncate ; legs entirely black. 

 " Taken in abundance by Mr. Davis, from nettles by the road side, between 



Ipswich and Woodbridge." — Newman, I. c. 



Page 56. Sp. 3 a. Micropeplus obtusus. Ent. Mag. (Newman) v. iii. p. 201. 



— Testaceus, capite antic e rotundato. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 

 Entirely pale brown ; the head anteriorly obtuse and rounded : the lines on 



the elytra more elevated than in Mic. Staphylinoides. 

 Taken at Halifax. 



Page 61. Sp. 7. Trichopteryx Titan ! Ent. Mag. (Newman) v. ii. p. 201. 



— Nigra, pedibus albidis. (Long. corp. § lin.) 

 Minute, black, with very pale legs, of a dirty- white hue. 

 Taken in moss by Mr. Davis: the smallest known Coleopterous insect. 



Page 67. Sp. 12 a. fATOMARiA gutta. Picea, elytris nigris, guttd media 

 saturali sanguinea ; pedibus ferrugineis. (Long. corp. f lin.) 



Pitchy-black ; antennae ferruginous, with the basal half of the apical, and the 

 whole of the following joints, fuscous ; thorax and elytra black, the latter 

 with a distinct red spot, on the centre of the suture, being half on each 

 elytron ; legs ferruginous. 



Found by Mr. Davis in some moss received from Lincolnshire. 



Page 80. Mycei\/ea hirta. Curtis, v. xl pi 502. — Here, as usual, speaking 

 of Myc. fumata (which is very distinct inform^ as well as in colour and 

 pubescence, frpm Myc. hirta,) Mr. Curtis says, " but it is impossible to 

 ascertain from his (Stephens's) synonyms what he means, for two insects of 

 different genera are given as one species. The Dermestes fumatus, Marsham, 

 which is a Mycetaea, and the Der. fumatus of Linnd, which is nearly allied 

 to Triphyllus, &c." Had this writer taken the trouble to read my obser- 



