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Entomological Society. 



Oligota granaria. Taken at the Holt, Hampshire. 

 Xantholinus glaber. Taken at Holme Bush. 

 Quedius fuscipes. Taken at Addington. 

 Stenus solutus. Taken at Cowley and Lee. 



Stenus (sp. 20 of Mr. Waterhouse's Catalogue). Taken at Shirley. Mr. 



AVaterhouse observed that this insect, in some respects (especially in the dark colouring 

 of the palpi), more perfectly agreed with the description of S. providus, Erichs., than 

 did the species which he had supposed was that insect, and which, from its more cy- 

 lindrical form, he now thought might prove to be Kraatz's S. Rogeri. Before, how- 

 ever, this point could be settled, it would be necessary to ascertain the sexual characters 

 of Dr. Power's insect, of which one specimen only had been found. 



P/iilonihus signaticornis. Taken at Eastcot and Merton. 



Philonthus nigrita. Taken at Eltham. 



Philoiithus pullus. Taken at Portsea. 



Philonthus lepidus. Taken at Deal. 



Mr. Waterhouse also exhibited the following species from his own collection : — 

 Oxypoda aterrima, nov. sp. 



Anisotoma obesa, Schmidt, A. ciliaris, Schmidt, A, brunnea, Sturm, A. parvula, 

 Sahib. 



Cyrlusa minuta, Ahrens. 

 Agaricophagus cephalotes, Schmidt. 

 Leiodes orbicularis^ Herb si. 



Euthia plicata, Gyll., E. truncatella, Erichs. First taken by Mr. Whittingham 

 at Leytonstone, and subsequently by Mr. Waterhouse at tlie Crystal Palace. 



Mr. Waterhouse read the following description of the new species of Oxypoda 

 exhibited by him : — 



" Oxypoda ? aterrima. 



" O. linearis^ aterrima, nitidiuscula, antennis pedibusque piceo-nigris, thorace ely- 

 trisque crehre punctatis, abdomine parcius punctato ; thorace coleopteris longi- 

 tudine subaquale, basi foveola impresso. Long. corp. 1 lin. 



" This little insect is extremely like Flomalota analis, but is usually a trifle larger: 

 the antennae are distinctly shorter, a little stouter, and with the intermediate joints 

 strongly transverse; the head rather more globose and less suddenly constricted 

 behind ; the thorax rather less transverse, but in other respects like, with the same 

 posterior fovea and indistinct dorsal channel ; the punctuation, however, of this part, 

 as well as of the elytra, is rather stronger: the elytra are very nearly equal to the 

 thorax, both in width and length, and present scarcely a trace of the posterior notch: 

 the abdomen is rather less finely and less thickly punctured than in H. analis ; the 

 three visible segments nearest the elytra are transversely impressed at the base; the 

 jaws are testaceous; the palpi dusky. 



" Several specimens of this insect have been taken by Mr. Morris Young near 

 Paisley : its general appearance is so like that of a Homalota (especially H. analis) 

 that I was much surprised, upon placing it under the microscope, to find five joints to 

 the fore tarsi, and this character accompanied by a somewhat elongated basal joint to 

 to the posterior tarsi: this joint, however, though decidedly longer than the following 

 joints, is less elongated than in most of the Oxypoda." 



