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seen the true exigua, which is stated to resemble Komalota ipygm<Ba and 
to have the apex of the abdomeiD almost entirely unpunctured and 
'^'""'ol^cJ. glalTwentrls, miU (Ent. Mon. Mag., 1st Feb., 1865) is 
the Calodera {Ilyolates) Bonnairei of Fauvel (Bull. Soc. Normand., 
ix 1865 p 287). The generic diagnosis of Ilyolates appears to ditier 
from thit of Oxyj>oda solely as follows (the ligula. palpi, and tarsal 
formula being m each identical) :-Ilyobates, " maxill<B mala mtenore 
intusswrnnoapices^inuUs 12 longioribus ciliata r Oxtpoda, ^^ maxiUcB 
mala interiore infus apice spinulis ciliata .-"-the latter of which proposi- 
tions would logically include the former. Not feeling inclined to de- 
stroy my solitary example by dissection, I referred it to the latter genus, 
on account of its great structural resemblance to O. lucens and certain 
other of the small yellow species, and also on account of not observing 
in it the characteristic coarse punctuation of llyohates. 
Oxypoda rufula, Wat. Cat., appears to be identical with 0. riparia, 
Fairm., Soc. Ent. de Er., 1859, 38. 
Oxypoda Waterhousei, mild {nigrofusca, Waterh., nee Steph.), ac- 
cording to M. Eauvel, is O. amosna, Eairm., Fauue Ent. Er., 436. 
Oxypoda annularis, Wat. Cat., appears to be pallidula, Sahib. 
Oxypoda misella, Waterh. {nee Kraatz), according to M. Eauvel, 
who has examined one of my specimens from Shirley, on which the 
species was introduced as British, is 0. ferruginea, Er. The latter has 
hitherto been considered by us as synonymical with O. brachyptera, 
Steph. ; but the long antennae of that insect render such a conjunction 
impossible. 
Oxi/poda nigrina and aterrima of Waterhouse are, as already re- 
corded, respectively to be referred to 0. sericea, Heer, and O. tncras- 
sata Muls In the last edition of de Marseul's Catalogue, 0. aternma 
is however, reinstated, and O. nigrina is separated from O. sericeahj 
14, species,— O. exigua, moreover, as has been before observed, being 
given as a synonym of the latter. 
Bryoporus Rardyi, a good species, closely allied to BolitoUus 
pygmceus, is, according to M. Eauvel, who has seen other examples from 
the Pyrenees, to be referred to Mycetoporus. 
Tachyporus scitulus of our collections is T. pusillas, dark var. 
True scitulus is more convex, deeper black, and with more widely punc- 
tured elytra. 
Philonthus temporalis, indgmg from a type kindly communicated to 
me by M. Eauvel, has certainly not yet been correctly recorded as 
. British. 
