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21. sparsa, Lw., is remarkable for its very slight punctuation ; the pu- 



bescence is nearly all black : there is a pair in the Entomological 

 Club collection. 



22. antigiia, Mg., resembles the last, but is much more punctate, and 

 the short pubescence of the thorax is generally pale ; the wings of 

 this and the last are of a blackish-hyaline hue ; it should be com- 

 mon in England, but I have only seen two males in Mr. Unwin's 

 collection, and two females in that of the Entomological Club. 



23. maculata, Fin., is remarkable for its bright orange antennae and 



large grey spots on the abdomen ; the epistoma is also very much 

 produced like a snout : there is a pair in the Entomological Club 

 collection. 



In addition to these twenty -three species, I have seen (1) a male 

 captured in the New Eorest rather like flavimana, but with the legs 

 black and the knees only brownish ; (2) a female in Mr. Unwin's col- 

 lection, probably allied to pictipennis, Egger, but smaller, and coming 

 near Moris, with no black hairs round the edge of the scutellum, and 

 the wings suffused with brown about the lower transverse veinlet 

 and near the tip ; (3) a female in the Entomological Club collection 

 allied to decidua, but rather smaller, with no pale fascia-like markings 

 on the abdomen, darker tibiae, shorter and barer arista, and yellower 

 pubescence. There are upwards of a dozen species known on the con- 

 tinent very likely to occur in Britain ; and I expect our lists to reach 

 about forty species when Scotland has been more worked. It will be 

 seen that most of the species, so far as is yet known, are rare ; and one 

 could hardly expect to catch above six or eight in a year's collec- 

 ting ; but I believe that individuals will prove tolerably abundant near 

 the spot where any species is found to occur. 



The Mulberries, Denmark Hill, London, S.E. 

 January 10th, 1870. 



DESCRIPTION OP A NEW SPECIES OP THE COLEOPTEROUS FAMILY 



DORCID31. 

 BY CHAS. O. WATEEHOTTSE. 



As the insect which I am about to describe belongs to the genus 

 Macrodorcas (Motschulsky), concerning which scarcely anything ap- 

 pears to be known, I may here note that I have determined (as it would 

 appear, simultaneously with Major Parry) that Macrodorcas rectus 

 (Motsch.) is identical with Eurytrachelus niponensis (Vollenh.). With 



