﻿seen the true exigua, which is stated to resemble Homalota pygmcea, and 

 to have the apex of the abdomen almost entirely unpunctured and 

 shining. 



Oxypoda glabriventris, mihi (Ent. Mon. Mag., 1st Feb., 1865), is 

 the Calodera (Ilyobates) JSonnairei of Fauvel (Bull. Soc. Normand., 

 ix, 1865, p. 287). The generic diagnosis of Ilyobates appears to differ 

 from that of Oxypoda solely as follows (the ligula, palpi, and tarsal 

 formula being in each identical) : — Ilyobates, " maxilloe mala interiore 

 intus summo apice spinulis 12 longioribus ciliata ;" Oxypoda, " maxillae 

 mala interiore intus apice spinulis ciliata .•" — the latter of which proposi- 

 tions would logically include the former. Not feeling inclined to de- 

 stroy my solitary example by dissection, I referred it to the latter genus, 

 on account of its great structural resemblance to 0. lucens and certain 

 other of the small yellow species, and also on account of not observing 

 in it the characteristic coarse punctuation of Ilyobates. 



Oxypoda rufula, "Wat. Cat., appears to be identical with 0. riparia, 

 Fairm., Soc. Ent. de Fr., 1859, 38. 



Oxypoda Waterhousei, mihi (nigrofusca, Waterh., nee Steph.), ac- 

 cording to M. Fauvel, is O. amcena, Fairm., Faune Ent. Fr., 436. 



Oxypoda annularis, "Wat. Cat., appears to be pallidula, Sahib. 



Oxypoda misella, Waterh. (nee Kraatz), according to M. Fauvel, 

 who has examined one of my specimens from Shirley, on which the 

 species was introduced as British, is O. ferruginea, Er. The latter has 

 hitherto been considered by us as synonymical with O. brachyptera, 

 Steph. ; but the long antennas of that insect render such a conjunction 

 impossible. 



Oxypoda nigrina and aterrima of Waterhouse are, as already re- 

 corded, respectively to be referred to O. sericea, Heer, and O. incras- 

 sata, Muls. In the last edition of de Marseul's Catalogue, O. aterrima 

 is, however, reinstated, and O. nigrina is separated from O. sericea by 

 14 species, — 0. exigua, moreover, as has been before observed, being 

 given as a synonym of the latter. 



Bryoporus Hardyi, a good species, closely allied to Bolitobius 

 pygmcBus, is, according to M. Fauvel, who has seen other examples from 

 the Pyrenees, to be referred to Mycetoporus. 



Tachyporus scitulus of our collections is T. pusillus, dark var. 

 True scitulus is more convex, deeper black, and with more widely punc- 

 tured elytra. 



PhilontJius temporalis, judging from a type kindly communicated to 

 me by M. Fauvel, has certainly not yet been correctly recorded as 

 British . 



