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the lateral ones are more or less obsolete; the sculpture of the elytra is much 

 stronger, and the alternate interstices are raised and somewhat carinate, especially 

 near suture : the colour of the type form is more or less ferruginous, but the insect 

 varies both in this point and in size. Length, 1| — If mm. 



Oue specimen of the type form is in Dr. Sharp's collection, 

 without locality, and another of the larger dark variety is in the same 

 collection, from Braemar. 



M. ruLviPEs, var. mebidionalis, Eeitter. 



The type form of M.fulvipes is pitchy-black, and rather larger than is the case 

 ■with any of our specimens, all of which must apparently be referred to the var, 

 meridionalis, Reitter, by reason of their small size, and lighter, reddish, colour. 



L^MOPHLCEUS PU9ILLUS, Schon. (Jongicomis, Marsh.). 

 Eather larger than L. duplicatus, to which it is somewhat closely allied, and 

 distinguished by having only one impressed line on each side of the thorax, and by 

 the fact that the antennae of the male are almost as long as the -whole body ; the 

 elytra also are more plainly striated, and the general form is broader. 



Length, IJ — If mm. 



In granaries ; imported with corn ; found by Mr. Fitch, at 

 Maldon, Essex. These granary beetles are very unsatisfactory to deal 

 with, but if one is introduced into the British list, others must be, and 

 we already have a considerable number of cosmopolitan insects in 

 our catalogues. 



Agaeicophagus confoemis, Er. 



In Dr. Power's collection there are three or four specimens of Agaricophagus 

 labelled conformis : one of these I sent to Herr Eeitter, who has recently revised 

 the whole of the Anisotomina, and he has confirmed it for me as that species j it 

 appears plain, therefore, that we possess as British what is regarded as A. conformis 

 on the continent ; the species was introduced many years ago by Mr. Crotch, but 

 afterwards given up, on the ground that the specimens were only forms of A. 

 cephalotes ; the general differences appear to be very slight, A. conformis being 

 smaller, and of a shorter oval form than A. cephalotes, with the head smaller and 

 the thorax more narrowed in front ; the elytra also are more thickly cross striated ; 

 the head, however, varies in size in the sexes, and, therefore, is not a dependable 

 character ; in the male, however, A. cephalotes has the posterior femora dilated, 

 emarginate beneath, and armed in the middle with a recurved tooth, whereas in 

 A. conformis they are only armed with a minute tooth at apex : the species is so 

 very rare that it is impossible to get many specimens for comparison, and at present 

 I am not at all sure that we possess more than one British species, whether it be 

 cephalotes or whether it be conformis. 



Akisotoma eubiginosa, Schmidt. 

 This is another of the doubtful species that have been alternately introduced 

 into the British catalogue and afterwards given up : it is a very convex, globose- 



