28 Ins, 
COLEOPTERA. 
below by a large punctuated space, enlarged behind ; mesosternal point 
not carinated ; prebasal segment shagreened or finely punctuated ; body 
dull, or nearly so. To contain Lathrohium ohsoletim, Nordm., and Litho- 
charis obscurella, Er. 
Pcederidus, iid. 1. c. p. 245. Subgenus of Pccderus ; base of venter 
simply raised into an obtuse carina ; prothorax not bordered at the sides ; 
mesosternal projection not carinated. To contain P. ruficollis, Fabr., 
and gemellus^ Kraatz. 
Lathrohium crassipes, iid. 1. c. p. 32, Fr^jus and Hyeres. 
Medon muscicolor and incertus, iid. 1. c. pp. 128 & 137, France. 
Sunius vestitus, Marseilles, p. 273, unicolor ^ S. Prance, p. 276, suhditus, 
Lyons, p. 278, iid. 1. c. 
Lithocharis scolytina^ Fauvel, J. Mus. Godeffr. xiv. p. 83, Viti. 
Pinophilides. 
Pinophilus opacus, Redt., nee Lee., = australis^ Har. ; P. de Borre, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. clxii. 
Stenides. 
Stenus maculiger, Weise, is distinct from Icevigatus, Rey; S. tylo- 
eephalus, Kr., = guynemeri, Duval; S. trivialis,'Kv., = morio,\av.; S. 
lepidus, Weise, is distinct from nigritulus, and reitteri, Weise, is also a 
good species: Eppelsheim, Ent. Nachr. v. p. 194. 
Stenus hopffgartenij Croatia, p. 40, rnicropterus and suramensis, Caucasus, 
pp. 465 & 466, spp. nn., Eppelsheim, Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxix. 
Oxytelides. 
Pledius f rater, 'Kv., represents small specimens of B.fossor; B. pyg~ 
mceus, Fauv., = pusillus, Er., Kr., nec Fauv., which = agricultor, Heer, 
Kr., = pygmeeus, Er. ; B. haudii, Fauv., is also a form of the last : 
Eppelsheim, Ent. Nachr. v. p. 195. 
Oxyporus procerus, sp. n., Kraatz, Deutsche E. Z. xxiii. p. 122, pi. ii. 
fig. 3, Amoor. 
Platystethus quedenfeldti, sp. n., Weise, op. cit. p. 147, Japan. 
Osorius sanguinipeimis, sp. n., Fauvel, J. Mus, Godelfr. xiv. p. 83, 
Gayndah, Australia. 
Ilomaliides. 
Deliphrum expansum, sp. n., Le Conte, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. v. p. 510, 
Colorado. 
Protinides. 
Megarthrus stercorarius (Pandell^), sp. n., Mulsant & Rey, Ann. Soc. L. 
Lyon, XXV. p. 238, Hautes-Pyrenees. 
Trigonus semicribrosus, Ovalau, anthrax, ameo-niveus, ai^d merophy- 
sioides, Viti, spp. nn., Fairmaire, Le Nat. i. (3) p. 3, 
