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Mr. Janson also exhibited a specimen of Harpalus servus, Duft., wliich had been 

 detected by Mr. H. Squire among a number of unset Coleoptera presented to him by- 

 Mr. F. Smith, by whom they were captured, near Deal, last autumn. He observed 

 that Mr. Squire, who had identified this insect, considered it specifically identical with 

 Harpalus raaritimus {Kirbi/), Sleph. olim (subsequently sunk, in the 'Manual,' as 

 synonymous with H. complanatus, Stiirm)^ as he found the individual exhibited 

 agreed precisely with the specimens thus denominated in the Kirbyan, Slephensiau 

 and Leachian cabinets. Mr. Janson remarked that he had not himself yet had an op- 

 jiortunity of following Mr. Squire's investigations in this matter; he was therefore not 

 competent either to confirm or contradict the view he advanced, 



Mr. Janson likewise laid before the Meeting the following, which he had recently 

 taken : — 



Ocyusa rnjlcornis, Kraatz, Naturgescb. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 158, 2 (1856), a species 

 not previously recorded as an inhabitant of Briiain, and indeed only recently discovered 

 by Dr. Kraatz, near Berlin. It has also been taken in the vicinity of Paris, and is 

 described by MM. Fairmaire and Laboulbene in their ' Faune Entomologique de 

 France,' i. 441, 33 (1856), under the name of Oxypoda fulvicornis: the specific title 

 imposed by Dr. Kraatz will, however, stand by right of priority, his description being 

 anterior in publication by several months. The present species may be at once dis- 

 tinguished from its near ally and as yet sole congener, O. maura, JSrichs., by its 

 superior size, brown hue, longer antennae, and by the bright brownish red colour of 

 those organs and of the legs ; other, less apparent, differences exist in the form of the 

 thorax and in the sculpture and pubescence of the elytra, &c. 



Hygronoma dimidiata, Grav., Erichs., Steph. 



Stenus picipennis, Erichs., first discovered and identified by Mr. Edwin Shepherd, 

 in the autumn of 1857, and subsequently taken, he had heard, by Dr. Power, in 

 Hampshire. 



Ischnodes sanguinicollis, Panzer {Ctenicerus sanguinicoUis, Steph.). The female, 

 which differs somewhat in size and form from the male, is unquestionably Sericosomus 

 fulvicollis of Stephens. 



In answer to a question of Mr. Westwood, relative to the localities in which these 

 insects had been found, Mr. Janson stated that he had captured the last-named species 

 in the London district; in respect to the other three, he was not certain whether the 

 locality was situate within that limit or not, — at all events he might venture to say 

 one of the home counties South of the Thames ; this he considered quite sufficient for 

 all scientific purposes, and most respectfully declined henceforth publicly to indicate 

 the precise localities of his captures, an announcement which appeared to afford much 

 amusement to some of the Members, as it was greeted with considerable hilarity. 



Mr. Watevhouse exhibited the following species of Coleoptera, believing they had 

 not hitherto been recorded as British, viz.: — 



Hister marginaius, Erichs. Two specimens of this insect had come under 

 Mr. Waterhouse's notice, one specimen in his own collection, and one in that of 

 Dr. Power. The localities in which they were found are unfortunately unknown. 



Saprinus immundus^ Gyll. One specimen taken by Mr. Waterhouse, at the mouth 

 of the Orwell, in September, 1855, and several specimens taken by Dr. Power and 

 Mr. F. Smith, at Deal. 



