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Note on two species of Anisotoma new to the British Lists.—(?) ANISOTOMA 
GRANDIS, Fairm. et Lab., Faune Ent. Frang., I, p. 316. I have long had in my 
collection three specimens of a large Anisotoma (taken by myself, by sweeping in 
Sept., 1863, at dusk, among long grass, &c., under trees at the top of the “ Hilly 
Field,’ Mickleham, Surrey) which I have never been able satisfactorily to refer to 
any recorded species, or to consider sufficiently distinct from A. cinnamomea, which 
also occurred to me at the same locality. My attention, however, having been 
recently drawn to the allies of the latter species, I find that one at least of the 
three specimens above mentioned (a?) agrees well enough with the description 
of A. grandis, differing as it does from cinnamomea in its rather lesser size (it 
slightly exceeds two English lines in length) and convexity; in its entirely rufous 
antenne, of which the club is not quite so large or compact, with the 2nd joint not 
quite so small or transverse ; in its thorax, when viewed from the front, not being 
so contracted behind, and with its anterior contraction less abrupt, more rounded, 
and beginning above the middle, and its anterior angles much less evident, being 
rounded off; and in the interstices of the striz of its elytra being evidently 
punctured. 
The two other specimens, which are smaller (1{ lin.), exhibit the clear rufous 
club and other characters, with the exception of the interstitial punctuation, which 
is much as in cinnamomea. These two appear to be males, having their flattened 
hind femora terminated by a very slight angular point, with no vestige of other | 
denticulation, and their hind tibia very slightly curved. 
The smaller size, flatter appearance and less oblong build of these three 
specimens, and their light antennz and differently shaped thoracic outline, certainly 
give them a considerably different facies from even the smallest cinnamomea; and 
Tam induced to bring them forward as A. grandis (though with some doubt), as the 
publication of these observations may bring to light other examples. There is, 
I think, another specimen in Mr. Oliver Janson’s collection, taken near Highgate, 
where A. cinnamomea has not as yet been observed, so far as I know. 
(?) ANISOTOMA OBLONGA, Erichson, Ins. Deutschl., iii, p. 538, note. I have 
also had for some time in my collection an example of another large Anisotoma, 
kindly given to me by its captor, Mr. J. T. Harris, of Burton-on-Trent, and which 
Dr. Kraatz returned to me early this year as probably the A. oblonga of Hrichson. 
Having recently seen another specimen, beaten off broom in a wood near York by 
Mr. Hutchinson of that city, I now bring forward this species, also with some little | 
doubt, but still with perfect certainty that it is a good species, and not referable to 
any other in our list. 
Compared with cinnamomea, these insects are rather smaller (nearly 24 Engl. 
lines), distinctly less oblong and more ovate, with the antenne shorter and entirely 
rufo-testaceous, the sides of the thorax less abruptly contracted in front, and with 
more rounded anterior angles ; the elytra shorter and wider, with the punctures of 
the strie stronger, and of the interstices more evident, the larger punctures in the , 
alternate interstices being larger and more numerous; and the legs shorter. 
Both of the above mentioned specimens, as are those referred to by Erichson, 
appear to be females, having the hind femora rounded beneath at the apex. 
Compared with the insects above brought forward as probably A. grandis, these 
