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lonthus contained in my own collection, 
and regarded by me as the true P. lucens, 
and which I am still satisfied is that 
species ; hut, in Mr. Bold’s insect, I find 
all the characters which are laid down by 
Erichson and Dr. Kraatz for the P. scu- 
tatus. This insect is remarkable, in its 
group, for having the fourth abdominal 
segment prolonged beneath, in the male 
sex, so as almost completely to cover the 
succeeding segment — a character found 
in the P. laminatus and P. intermedius 
(species of a different section), and which 
is perfectly distinct in one of two speci- 
mens sent me by Mr. Bold. It agrees 
very closely in size and proportions with 
P. carbonarius, but is readily distin- 
guished by its antennae being consider- 
ably longer, the head and thorax being 
still more glossy and having a decided 
brassy hue ; the thorax is a little longer 
than in P. carbonarius : the elytra are of 
a brassy green colour, a trifle longer, and 
a little more thickly punctured, than in 
P. carbonarius ; and the abdomen is 
much more thickly and finely punctured 
than in that insect; it is also more 
densely clothed with pubescence, and this, 
instead of being black, is of a greyish 
hue. Under the microscope, with a 
moderate power, the head and thorax are 
seen, in P. carbonarius, to be very finely 
elutaceous, or having excessively minute 
and closely-packed waved striolae ; these 
are wanting in P. scutatus, the surface 
being even, but with very minute punc- 
tures pretty thickly scattered. The 
P. scutatus has not hitherto been re- 
corded amongst our British species; it 
should take its place between the species 
6 and 7 of the Philonthi in my Cata- 
logue. 
British Museum, 
March 9, 1861. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
TINEINA. 
The names of subscribers for Vols.VI. — ■ 
X., at 10s. per volume, received up to 
Tuesday night, March 12th: — 
1. Bond, F., Esq. 
2. Hartwright, J. H., Esq. 
3. Russell, W. T., Esq. 
4. Kenderdine, F., Esq. 
5. Killingback, H. W., Esq. 
6. M‘Lacblan, R., Esq. 
7. Latchford, W. H., Esq. 
FEN INSECTS. 
To the Editor of the * Intelligencer 
Sir, — Having received a number of let- 
ters respecting collecting in the fens, some 
requesting to know if they are to share in 
all my captures, as far as they will go, 
all I can say is that for Lepidoptera the 
number of shares is not to exceed what I 
stated in my letter of February 9 (Int. ix. 
p. 151) ; at present they are not all taken 
up, and when they are a complete list of 
the shareholders will be sent to each 
subscriber, and in October another com- 
plete list of every insect taken, with the 
number of specimens of each species, be- 
fore the distribution takes place. In no 
instance will any insect be kept back ; as 
I engage to take no share myself, all my 
captures will be given up to the sub- 
scribers. In Phryganidae and Diptera 
only one share is at present taken, and 
none of the other orders are bid for. 
I am requested by nearly all who have 
paid their shares not to publish their 
names in the ‘ Intelligencer ; ’ unless with 
the consent of the subscribers, of course 
I should not do so. I now beg to thank 
