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question. The following diagnosis (to be contrasted with the diagnosis o 
femoraiyv.m in Schaum's Ins. Deutschlands), taken in conjunction with the dist. 
tions tvom femoratum I have pointed out above, will suffice to characterize it. t 
B. ANGLicANUir. Viridi-cBneum, sub-depressum, antennarum articuUs ad rnvKki 
tribus basalibus, pedibus. palpisque rufo-testaceis, horum articulo pmilfr 
mfuscato; prothorace sub-cordato, basi sub-Uvi ; elytris testaceis, fascia f.' 
medvwm, margineque viridi-cBneis, punctata striatis, striis lateribus et at 
evanescentibus. t o «, ,., 
Long. 2— 2J ly 
Var. femoribus medio infuscatis. 
GrRiNUS SuFFRiANi, Scriba. This species is allied to 0. natator, and is ne 
equal in size to the smallest varieties of that species, but is readily distingniK 
by the very different punctuation of the elytra, the punctures of the striae bn 
obsolete towards the apex, but deep and distinct at the base. I have captd 
single specimens at Dumfries and Horning, and obtained a small series ftom 
Desvignes' collection; one of these I sent to Mr. Crotch, who has kindly compe 
it with specimens of G. Suffriani which he received from Herr Scriba, and finds t 
they agree in every respect. 
AXEOCHARA LATA. Though, at the present time, this insect appears to 
considered without doubt a variety of A. fuscipes, it is nevertheless, in my opiE 
a distinct species therefrom, and can be distinguished by positive characters. 
A. fuscipes the hind-margin of the dorsal plate of the 6th abdominal segmen 
slightly emarginate in both sexes, rather more so in the male than in the fema 
in A. lata it is completely rounded in both sexes. Ixx fuscipes this same hind-mar 
is fringed with short ferruginous cilia, while in lata these cilia are black, and..i 
long in the male and short in the female. In fuscipes the ventral plate oft 
segment is rounded at the hind-margin in both sexes ; while in lata it is rouna 
in the male and emarginate in the female. These characters, in conjunction w ' 
the broad form and dark elytra of A. lata, are, I think, quite sufficient to establ 
its claim to a place as a distinct species from 0. fuscipes. Gravenhorst descril 
A. lata on specimens from N. America ; so I am unable to say whether our bh 
species is really conspecific with the American one; if this should prove to be i 
BO, it will be necessary to find another name for the European insect. 
Aleochara fumata. I have no doubt this insect is only a variety of A. bre> 
pennis, as I have all the intermediate forms, and moreover can find no charact, 
to distinguish the most typical fumata from brevipennis, except size and colour. 
D. Sharp, Eccles, Thomhill, September, 1869. 
A few additions to the Coleopterous Fauna of Lundy Island. —Tfxxving a sojou 
of a month at Ilfracombe, I paid two visits to Lundy Island : curiosity Tlone won 
have induced me to exploi-e this isolated granite block, but I was extremely desiro 
of ascertaining what Aculeate Hymenoptera were to be found on it in the month 
August. I read, some years ago, with great interest, Mr. Wollaston's notes on tl 
Coleoptera found there by him in the month of June, 1844, from which it appear, 
that in five days he captured 63 species. It is a fact, alluded to in those notes, th; 
one may start for the island frequently, but that landing on arrival there is amatt< 
