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Its small size prevents it from being confounded with any of our 

 species but O. exaratus ; from which its duller appearance, closer punc- 

 tuation, posteriorly more contracted thorax, &c.,at once distinguish it; 

 but it cannot be satisfactorily compared with any of our recorded 

 Oehthebii, suggesting, as it does, some of the characteristics of nifi- 

 marginatus and others of the giant punctatus. 



Crs vestitus, Mellie, Soc. Ent. de Fr., 1848, p. 354. I possess a 

 single example of this species, given to me by Mr. T. Morley, who took 

 it in the neighbourhood of Manchester. It is about the size of medium 

 festivus, but is narrower and flatter than that insect. Its thorax is 

 narrower and more contracted in front than in any of our species, and 

 is dull, being very closely punctured. The elytra are rather shining, 

 irregularly and closely punctured, and clothed with pile, as in Tiispidus. 

 Bagous incebatus, Gryll. (encaustus, Boh.), Schon., 76. Mr. Douglas 

 took a single specimen of this exotic-looking beetle whilst hunting for 

 Gorixw in a brackish ditch near Grravesend, and I bring it forward on M. 

 Brisout's authority. It appears to occur in Austria and the meridional 

 parts of France in salt and brackish waters ; also in Germany and South 

 Russia, and in the Caucasus and Pyrenees. It is larger than any of 

 our recorded species, except hinodulus, but is utterly unlike any of them, 

 owing to its comparatively short legs, broad flat build, shining appear, 

 ance, &c. Mr. Douglas' specimen is of an olive-grey colour, with more 

 or less distinct brownish markings on the elytra, an irregular transverse 

 band on the disc being the most conspicuous. The funiculus of its 

 antennae is 6-jointed. 



Ceuthoehynchus aectjatus, Herbst,Gyll. (Schon., 154). This hand- 

 some species (which I also bring forward on the authority of M. Brisout) 

 was taken some years ago (and also recently) by Mr. J. Kidson Taylor 

 of Manchester ; it has also been found by Mr. J. Chappell of the same 

 place, at Cleethorpes, and on the Lancashire coast. I am indebted to 

 each of those gentlemen for a specimen of it. According to M. Brisout 

 it is rare in the north but more abundant in the centre and south of 

 France. It differs from cJirysanthemi, Wat. Cat., amongst other things, 

 in not having the lateral white marking carried on to the scutellar 

 patch, and from asperifoliarum in having the lateral marking originating 

 nearer the shoulder, &c. 



Cionus olens, Fab., Eedt. I have detected a single example' of 

 this fine species among some British Rhynclwphora taken by Mr. 

 Douglas, and sent to me for names. It appears to be spread over the 

 whole of Europe, and is not rare in the environs of Paris, on Verbascum, 



