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1. Scatopse platyscelis is described as "a trifle larger than S. 

 hifilata, Hal., consequently one of the largest species of this genus, and 

 easily recognised by its aflinity to the much smaller S. clavipes, Lw. 

 It is shining black, with only the last segment of the abdomen dull ; 

 hind tibiae flat, exceedingly enlarged toward the tip ; halteres blackish." 

 I captured one specimen near Lewes in 1867, crawling on a bare piece 

 of ground on a steep bank under bushes. 



2. The other species belongs to the Dolichopidce, and is described 

 by Loew as " Thripticus belbtts, $ . Front and upper half of the 

 face bluish-green, lower half more steel-blue ; antennse and palpi black -, 

 cilia of lower orbit setiform, yellowish- white ; vertex with tawny bristles; 

 thorax shining violet with yellowish hairs, which are numerous and 

 short on the anterior part, scanty, long, and setiform on the posterior ; 

 scutellum steel-blue with two yellow bristles ; abdomen shining bluish- 

 green, without bristles, but with short yellowish- white hairs ; coxae 

 bluish -green, front pair with short pale yellowish hairs, trochanters 

 yellow, front pair partly brown ; femora shining blackish-brown, the 

 base being pale yellowish to a small extent ; halteres whitish ; tegulse 

 (alulae) with white cilia ; wings limpid, hardly greyish, with the veins 

 brownish-black, third and fourth longitudinal veins totally obliterated." 

 This is one of the most brilliant species of the whole of this brightly- 

 coloured family, though it is one of the smallest. I have taken it 

 between Kew and Richmond, but it is most difficult to capture from its 

 smallness and activity. The genus Thripticus was only erected in 

 1864, in the Stettiner Ent. Zeit., by Grerstacker, from a single male 

 specimen caught near Berlin. 



Denmark Hill, London, S. : May, 1869. 



ADDITIONS, &c, TO THE LIST OF BRITISH COLEOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTION- OF A NEW SPECIES OF OCETHEBIUS. 



BY E. C. EYE. 



Having recently communicated certain of our Brachelytra, con- 

 cerning which I entertained doubts, to M. Albert Eauvel of Caen, who 

 is making an especial study of that group, and who has courteously 

 given me the benefit of his opinion upon my difficulties, I am enabled 

 to publish a few remarks tending, as I hope, towards that reconciliation 

 of British and Continental species which is so much needed by us. 



Oxypoda exigua, of my collection at least, is, as I had anticipated, 

 O. investigatoram, Kraatz, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1864, p. 130. I have not 



