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mine apice rufescenti ; thorace transverso, antice multo minus quam in 
\precedentibus rotundato, posticeque minus angustato, angulis omnibus 
\magis prominulis ; elytris strié suturali solum haud punctatd impressis, 
ad apicem strid brevi acute impressd, ab suturd oblique ductd :—antennis 
brevibus ; palpis apice angustatis. 
Long. 24 lin. Lat. elytr. 1% lin. 8 9. 
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Distinguished not only by its smaller size and transverse quadrate 
thorax, but by the very distinct and sharply scored short stria at the 
apex of the elytra, separated from the strongly marked sub-marginal 
stria by a narrow ridge. All the preceding species have an irregular 
impression in the same position; but the impression becomes a very 
defivite stria or sulcus in the present one. 
Ega. 
DIPLOHARPUS SEXSTRIATUS, N. sp. 
Minimus, piceo-niger, politus, oris partibus, antennis, pedibusque 
clare fulvo-testaceis; thorace magno, lato, lateribus late rotundatis, postice 
paulo angustato, angulis posticis obtusis, haud prominulis ; elytris utrinque 
prope suturam striis latis tribus punctatis distincte impressis, nec basin 
nec apicem attingentibus, exterioribus valde abbreviatis, ad apicem haud 
striolatis, strid sub-marginali flexuosa ; antennis brevibus, articulis apicem 
versus crassis ; palpis apice acuminatis. Long. 14 lin. 9. 
In the gradually pointed palpi and sub-moniliform antenne this 
species seems to connect the genus Diploharpus with Trechicus. 
Ega. 
Kentish Town: December, 1871. 
Note on Cryptophagus grandis.—Having been enabled, through the courtesy of 
Messrs. H. W. Janson and G. R. Crotch, to examine the insects (taken by the 
former gentleman in the north of London) in their collections representing this 
species, and upon which it was introduced as British, I can come to no other con- 
clusion than that these specimens are merely pallid individuals of OC. populi, and 
that C. grandis, Ktz., must be expunged from our lists. Dr. Sharp, who has 
subsequently examined Mr Crotch’s exponents, is also of my opinion. Moreover, 
from the description (and especially the avoidance in it of any mention of populi, 
which is not included in the Insect. Deutschl., and to which only this insect could 
apparently be likened with reason), I think it very probable that Kraatz’s grandis 
is itself only pale populi, Payk.—E. C. Ryz, 10, Lower Park Fields, Putney, S.W., 
December, 1871. 
Vote on Oryptophagus Waterhousei, Rye.—I feel, reluctantly, obliged to with- 
draw this insect as a good species, as I have come to the conclusion, in spite of 
several minor discrepancies, that it is a monstrosity of C. acutangulus, Gyll. 
Thomson’s record of supposed acutangulus, with a similar equilateral thoracic 
