[Jun. 
1. ScATOPSE PLATTscELis is described as "a trifle larger than t 
lifilata, Hal, consequently one of tlie largest species of this genus, an.i 
easily recognised by its affinity to the much smaller 8. clavipes, Lw 
It is shining black, with only the last segment of the abdomen dull 
hind tibise 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 BolichopidcB, and is described 
by Loew as " Theiptious bellus, ? . Front and upper half of thei 
face bluish-green, lower half more steel-blue ; antenna 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; coxje 
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 ; tegul» 
(alulse) 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 Eichmond, 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 Gerstacker, 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 OCHTHEBIUS. 
BT E. C. EYE. 
Having recently communicated certain of our BracTielytra, con- 
cerning which I entertained doubts, to M. Albert Fauvel 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, 
0. wvestigatorum, Kraatz, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1864, p. 130. I have not 
