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following sub-genera : Megacronus, Steph., Mycetoporus (these two absorb B'ryoj 
not even considered a sub-genus) and Bolitohius. Very long characters are give 
these genera, in treating of which, as also of the species, the continental scl 
of sub-division, reference, and tabulation is carried to a most perplexing exte: 
the whole monograph being a table, and no one item complete in itself. 
The species of the several genera are as follows. 
HypocYPTUS •.—grandicornis, Fairm. ; unicolor, Eosenh. ; longicornis, Pi 
rufipes, Kraatz ; rubripennis, n. s, (described from a single ? , France) ; l.:£viusc 
Mann. ; lancifer, n. s. ; nigripes, Stephens ; seminidum, Erichs. ; apicalis, Brii 
Gren., Cat. et Mat., (attributed to England expressly) ; discoideus, Er. H. tenuico 
Ktz., and pictus, Mots., are added as not having been seen by M. Pandelle' ; 
however, has had all the other types of Dr. Kraatz's described species of 
Tachyporidw sent to him by that author. 
Of these, H. rufipes, Ktz., is apparently possibly only a badly develi 
specimen of longicornis, to which insect it was attributed with a similar expres 
of doubt in Wat. Cat. M. Pandelle notes the prior H. rufipes of Stephens, b. 
wrong in thinking that insect belongs apparently to another genus. It is sir 
H. longicornis, and is even acknowledged by Stephens himself to be so, in 
" Manual," p. 376. E. pulicarius is suppressed as a species ; the only mentio 
it being that Dr. Kraatz has communicated a large example of seminulum m 
that name. Erichson's pulicarius is not referred to. The nigripes of Stephei 
identified from the description with the pygmaus of Kraatz : but Stephens' it 
is longicornis. In the « Manual," he refers his nigripes to Imviusculus, Mann., 
states the hinder angles of the thorax to be « very straight,"— a definition wi 
does not agree with the characters of pygmwus. The anisotomoides (Steph. 
Wat. Cat. is not mentioned. In Wat. Cat. it is identified, with a query, i 
Iceviusculus, Ktz. (these two names are inverted in Mr. Crotch's Cat.) ; it can: 
however, from size and coloration be attributed to M. Pandelle"s species of i 
name J nor does Mr. Waterhouse's type agree with Stephens' description, wl 
states the legs and antennaa to be red. It agrees however, specifically, v 
Stephens' type, which is very immature, and appears to difi-er from the ini 
known here as 332/^mcews, Ktz., solely in the more slender joints of its antenna 
CoNURUS -.—pedicularius, Grav. ; Lethierryi, n. s. ; lividus, Er. ; littoreus, Liu 
pulescens, Er. ; fusculus, Er. ; binotatus, Gr. j Wankowiezi, n. s. ; bipustulatus, I 
Upunctatus, Er. Of 0. fusculus, M. Pandelle remarks that it seems well to be 
cognised in the immaculatus of Stephens' lUust., v, 1832. As Erichson's insect ^ 
described in 1839, I suppose this must be considered as one of the " inconvenier 
species. Mr. Crotch, in his catalogue, gives precedence to the Stephensian nan 
TACHYPOiius :— (Sub-genus Lampnnus) erythropterus. Panz. ; saginatus, 
(early spring, ant's-nests) ; licematopterus, Ktz. ; pictus, Fairm j (Sub-gei 
TachyporusJ brunneus, Fab. ; pusillus, Grav. ; tersus, Er. ; transversalis, Gra 
hypnorum, Fab. ; scitulus, Er. ; hwnerosus, Er. j quadriscopulatus, n. s. ; rufico\ 
Gr. ; Brichsonis, n. a. ; ruficeps, Ktz. ; chrysomelinus, Linn. ; solutus, Er. j disc 
Eeiche et Saulcy {solutus var ? ) j obtusus, Linn. ; and /ormosus, Matthews (d la mi 
Franqaise, "Mathews "). The unseen species are nigricornis, Gyll., nigriceps a 
crassicornis, Mann., ^avipes, Makl., ohscurellus, Zett,, and caspiv^s. Mots. 
