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is another B. angularisy of Sachse (1852), — twenty years later in date ! ; 
Megacronus cedroniSy Saulcy, barnevillii and aubceiy Pand., = inclinanSy 
Gray. ; Lordithon piceus, Thoms., = cernuus, Gray. ; L. punctipennisy 
Th., = M. rufuSy Er. ; L. mcehliniy J. Sahib., = M. rugipennisy Pand. ; 
Mycetoperus longicorniSy auctt., and biplagiatuSy Fairm., = splendidusy 
Gr. ; N. ienuiSy Muls., = nanuSy Er. ; M. heydeniy Scriba, ruficorniSy Ktz., 
longulu8ylSlL2iU.u.y lepiduSyQv^Y.y and yarious other species, = hrunneuSy 
Marsham (the author being particularly seyere upon a remark made by 
the Recorder six years ago, referring to British exponents only) ; Tachi- 
nus frigiduSy Er., Ktz. , = pallipeSy Gr. ; Tachyporus erichsonis, Pand,, = 
ruJicepSy Ktz. -y Tachyporus scutcllaris, K^Qy * palliduSy Sharp, Cat., = 
solutusy Er. [Fauyel quotes this species as described by the Recorder in 
Ent. Ann. 1871, p. 32 : in that place, referring to the distinctiye charac- 
ters between the insect and T. tersus, which it had up to that time repre- 
sented in most English collections, the only mention of the specific name 
quoted is as follows : — “ M. Fauyel, indeed, some time ago informed mo 
of his intention to publish a description of it, under the name scutch 
laris.'' Comment upon this is superfluous] ; T. macuUcollis, Lee., = 
chrysomelinuSy L. ; T. signifer and A-scopulatuSy Pand., = humerosusy Er., 
yarr. ; Conurus fusculus, Er., = immaculatus, Steph., a race of pubes- 
cenSy Payk., with which cavicolay Scriba, is synonymous j C. lethierriiy 
Pand., = monticolay Woll. : A. Fauyel, Faune, &c. iii. p. 651 et seq. 
Mycetoporus glabery Sperk, = splendenSy ,Msh. ; id. 1. c. suppl. p. 79. 
Amblyopinusy g. n., S. Solsky, Hor. Ent. Ross. xi. p. 10. Type of a 
separate group, near TachinuSy of which it has the facies, but Avith almost 
obsolete eyes, and the labium bispinose. A. JelsJciiy p. 11, pi. i. fig. 3, 
and mniszechiy p. 13, pi. i. fig. 4, spp. nn., id. 1. c. Peru ; the former para- 
sitic on two species of MuSy fixed on the skin like an AcaruSy the latter 
associated with a species of Cavia^ and known to the natiyes as “ czekehu.’* 
Mycetoporus forticorniSy A. Fauyel, 1. c. p. 672, Paris, Germany (= 
pronuSy yar. ay Ktz. y excl. syn.) ; M. baudueri, Mulsant & Rey, Opusc. 
Ent. xyi. p. 200, France [= nanus, Er. ; A. Fauyel, Faune, &c., suppl. 
p. 79] : spp. nn. 
Quediides. 
Quedius robustus, Woll., = fagetiy Thoms., yar., = mauruSy Sahib. ; 
Q. puncticollisy Thoms., = ochripennis. Men., of which a race nigro-cceru- 
leus from France and Portugal is described (p. 76) ; Q. depauper atus, 
Woll., = ^-punctatuSy Thoms., yar., = fulgidus, F. ; Q.prcecox, Fauy., = 
ruficolliSy Steph., nec Gr., = nigriceps, Ktz.; Q. ernestiniy Fauy., ■=. pros- 
coXy Gr. ; A. Fauyel, Faune, &c., suppl. pp. 76-78. 
Quedius coloratus and inflatus, Syria, semiruber , Poland, p. xxxiii. note, 
sparsutuSy p. xxxiy. 'note, Siberia, id. Cat. Syst. Staph.; Q, transsyh 
pcf^nicusy Weise, Deutsche E. Zt. 1875, p. 356, Hungary : spp. nn. 
Staphylinides, 
Emus maxillosusy from the Azores and Sandwich Isles ; yar. ciliaris, 
from Carcassonne, and an allied form from Illinois ; A. Fauyel, Faune, &c., 
suppl. p. 70. Staphylinus rhteticus, Eppelsh., = iawtZu, Fauy. ; id. 1. c. p. 71. 
