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CRYPTOPHAGUS SCHMIDTII, Sturm; Er., l.c., p. 350. A single example of 
this fine species was taken by Mr. G. C. Champion about the middle of August 
last, at Wicken fen, in stack refuse. On account of its large size and long pubes- 
cence, CO. Schmidtii is only compared with C. lycoperdi by Erichson; but those who, 
like myself, have hitherto examined all the specimens of the latter insect that have 
come to hand, in the hope of detecting Schmidtii among them, may for the future 
save themselves that trouble, as the facies of the two species is utterly dissimilar, 
C. Schmidtii having the longer antennz and posteriorly more contracted elytra of 
setulosus, and the toothless, obtuse, flattened, thoracic anterior angle of saginatus. 
Mr. Champion’s specimen (which agrees well with continental Schmidtw from 
Markel in the Brit. Mus. coll.) is a large one, 1} lin. (Engl.) in length, quite as 
large as ordinary lycoperdi. Putting aside lycoperdi (if only on account of the sharp 
tooth at the outer apex of its tibiae which separates it from all its congeners, and 
of its small sharp anterior thoracic denticle), C. Schmidtii can only be confused 
with setulosus, from which its rather larger size and less broad build, the less trans- 
verse sub-apical joints of the club of its antenne, the lesser development of its 
thoracic anterior callosity and lateral denticle, and the punctuation of its elytra ~ 
not being disposed to run in striz, will serve to distinguish it. 
It may not be out of place here to observe, that, amongst some beetles very 
recently sent to me for determination by Mr. J. Kidson Taylor, is a specimen of 
C. lycoperdi of exactly one English line in length. My largest example of that 
species rather exceeds 1} Engl. lines; and Erichson gives a latitude (or rather 
longitude) of from 14 to 1} lines for it. Considering the greater length of the 
German line, Mr. Taylor’s specimen must, I think, be considered as extraordinarily 
small. Asa matter of course, lycoperdi would be about the last species to which 
one would think of referring it, primo vist. 
DASYTES OCULATUS, Kies. Mr. J. Ray Hardy has obtained this species by 
beating oaks in Sherwood Forest during July and August last; and I have a 2 
taken by myself in the London district. There are also some examples of it taken 
at Sherwood, among the insects above referred to as sent to me by Mr. J. K. Taylor. 
In addition to the characters of larger eyes in g, and two testaceous basal joints 
of the antennsz and testaceous anterior coxa in 9, referred to in Ent. Ann. 1871,1 
may observe that this species may be known from D. plumbeus, Mill. (flavipes, 
Wat. Cat.), by the reticulations of its eyes being coarser, its tibiae not being of so 
bright a yellow, its tarsi (and especially the basal joints) being longer, the depres- 
sion between its eyes being more sharply defined, the punctuation of its elytra 
being not so close, and its generally more shining appearance. 
THYAMIS RUTILA, Illig.; Allard, Mon. Alt. (L’Abeille), p. 235. This species 
has been introduced into our lists (as I have satisfied myself by an inspection of 
the leading collections in which it is supposed to exist) on the authority of red 
specimens of the common T. jacobew, Waterh. (fabida, Auct.), from which it differs, 
amongst other less important characters, in its much stronger and more evident 
punctuation, which on the elytra is disposed in striz near the base. Mr. Moncreaff 
has taken several specimens of what I believe to be the true T. rutila, by sweeping 
dried Mentha aquatica near Southsea, during the months of November and Decem- 
ber ; and it is to a large, old, disguised, discoloured and broken example of these 
