268 INSECTA, COLEOPTERA. 
New species : — 
Stentis suhcylindricus, Scriba, B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 83, Santas Albas ; S. gla- 
helluSf Thomson, Opusc. Ent. fasc. ii. p. 127, and S. suhglahevy Thoms. I, c. 
fasc. iii. p. 329, Sweden ] S. oscillator, Bye, Ent. M. M. vii. p. 7, England ; S. 
harnemllei, Bedel, I, c., Fontainebleau (=longitarsis, Thoms. : Fauvel, ibid. 
p. 136). 
Oxytelides, 
V. Fbauenfeld (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xx. p. 60) communicates a 
letter of A. Stentz, who describes the occun’ence of Bledius tricomis (Grav.) 
on the wing in vast multitudes. 
Bledius fuscipes, Bye. Taylor notes the habits of this species near Liver- 
pool (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 10). 
Platystethus pilosellus, ^ mk.,=nodifrons (Sahib.), ex typ, : Fauvel, L’Ab. 
vii. p. 136. 
Czw ALINA (B. E. Z. xiv. p. 422) tabulates eight species of Oxytelus allied 
to depressus, of which he describes three as new. Scriba (ibid. p. 423) 
briefly refers to the characters of two of the former and of another allied spe- 
cies \ and Kraatz (ibid. p. 424) repeats Pandell^’s description of two more 
closely allied species, — the latter author’s 9 species (in Gren. Cat. &c.) 
being thus increased to 12. 
Oxytelus parmdus, Muls., is a Trogophloeus : Czwalina, 1. c. p. 422. 
New species : — 
Bledius atramentarius, v. Bottenberg, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 35, and B. infans, v. 
Bott. 1. c. p. 36, Sicily. 
Oxytelus. Czwalina (1. c.) describes the following new species : — O. trans- 
versalis, p. 419 (? = fairmairei, Pandell^, teste auct.) j ajfinis, p. 420 ; tetratoma, 
p. 221 ; all from Konigsberg, taken in company with O. depressus, their inti- 
mate ally. 
Oxytelus carbonellus, Solsky, Bull. Mosc. xlii. p. 246, Mexico. 
2'rogophlocus spinicollis, Bye, Ent. 'M. M. vii. p. 8, north-west coast of 
England. 
Osorius canalicidatus, Solsky, Bull. Mosc. xlii. p. 265, Mexico. 
Compsochilus macellus, Ktz., B. E. Z. xiv. Beih. p. 85, Seville (cf. B. E. Z. 
1865, p. 369). 
Homaliades. 
Philorhmum rujicolle, Schauf. The author redescribes this species (Nunq. 
Otios. p. 38). 
British examples of Homalium heerii, Heer,=2;e7e, Er., var., Heer’s insect 
itself being probably only that species, teste Bye (Ent. M. M. vii. p. 162), who 
corroborates H. brevicorne, Er., as British, and remarks upon its differences 
from II. gracilicorne, Fairm., and H. vile (ibid. p. 163). 
Anthobium torquatum, Ktz., nee Marsh., is named collaris : Crotch, C, II. vi. 
p. 101. 
Lesteva Corsica, sp. n.. Penis, L’Ab. vii. p. 8, Corsica. 
Coryphium gredleri, sp. n., Kraatz, B. E. Z. xiv. p. 417, Tyrol. 
