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Mr. Waterhouse has no note of the locality of the original specimens of his 

 collection : he had recently seen the insect in a box of Coleoptera sent by Mr. J. 

 C. Dale to be named, and he had procured two other specimens from a collection 

 which formerly belonged to Mr. Walker, of Mansfield. 



Upon a former occasion, in attempting to identify this insect with descriptions, 

 he had considered the account given by Gyllenhal of the colour of the legs in 

 his B. nigricornis was such as to preclude the identification of the present insect with 

 Gyllenhal's; but considering that in other respects the description in the ' Insecta 

 Suecica ' agrees with the insect exhibited, he was now inclined to apply the name 

 " nigricornis '' to the species, and to suppose that the discrepancy was more apparent 

 than real as regards the colour of the legs. 



Mr. Jansou exhibited five species of Coleoptera not hitherto recorded as inhabit- 

 ants of Britain, and made the following remarks concerning them : — 



Quedius truncicola, Fairmaire, Faune Ent. Frang. i. 538, 14 (1856). Nearly 

 allied to Q. fulgidus, F., and bearing a very close resemblance to Erichson's var. 3 

 (" niger, pedibus piceis, abdomine rufo-brunneo basi nigricante "), but from which it 

 may be distinguished by its punctured scuteilum. I captured the two specimens 

 exhibited, the only individuals I have yet seen, under bark of elm; one near Totten- 

 ham, on the 29th October, 1848, the other near Hampstead about a fortnight since. 

 In the first of these the punctures on the scuteilum are so few and ill defined as to be 

 scarcely perceptible. 



Haploglossa rufipennis, Kraatz, Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 81, 3 (1856). 

 Distinguished from its near ally, H. pulla, Gyll. Eric. Kraatz, by its more parallel 

 form, closer and much finer punctuation, and the colour of the elytra, which are red, 

 with a dark patch in the region of the scuteilum, and at the outer posterior angles. 

 Found by Mr. Wollaston in sand-pits on Reigate Common, on the 26th June, 1857, 

 and by myself in brushing in the same place on the 6th July, 1859. 



Cryphalus Fagi, Fab. A single individual taken by myself, at Hampstead, on the 

 31st July, 1859, amongst the refuse of a stack of faggots. The narrow subcylindrical 

 form, long elytra, prominent tubercles or processes on the anterior portion of the tho- 

 rax, and red legs and antennae, distinguish this species. Mr. Gorham informs me 

 that he has recently found some numbers of a Cryphalus in bark of beech, at Wester- 

 ham, Kent, and which will probably prove to be specifically identical with the 

 example now before the meeting. 



Cryphalus Abietis, Ratzeb. Two specimens given me by the Rev. A. H. 

 Matthews, by whom they were taken from bark of firs, in the vicinity of his residence 

 at Gumley, Leicestershire. Distinguished by the tubercles on the anterior portion of 

 the thorax being few in number and irregular in their distribution (not in concentric 

 rows), the regular striae of punctures and the short pubescence of the elytra. The 

 legs and antennae are red ; the club of the latter pitchy black. 



Anthicus birnaculatus, Illiger, Schmidt, de Laferte, var. j3. A single example, given 

 me by Mr. Joseph Chappell, of Pendleton, near Manchester, by whom it was sent up 

 to me, together with a number of other Coleoptera for determination, and who in- 

 forms me that it was taken during the past summer on the Lancashire coast. Readily 

 distinguished from all the species of the genus yet ascertained as indigenous to 

 Britain, by its large size, pallid hue and obovate convex elytra. The normal form, 

 that first described by Illiger, has a triangular black dorsal spot on each elytron a 

 little behind the middle, but of this in the specimen exhibited there exists scarcely any 

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