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the male flowers of four sepals, glandular at the margins. Corolla 

 none. Filaments of the stamens very short. Anthers 2-celled : cells 

 separate, elongated, " verruciform." Sepals of the female flowers 3, 

 lanceolate, distinct. Corolla 0. Stamens 0. Styles 3, long, divided 

 at the apex into several slender laciniae. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved ; 

 cells 4-seeded. Seeds ovate, smooth, brown. 



Frequent in corn-fields in the Tanjore and Cuddalore districts. 

 The specimen figured is from the neighbourhood of Dindegul. 



Plate V. Fig. 1, extremity of a spike ; f. 2, one of the stellated ap- 

 pendages from the same ; f. 3, scale with female flowers, magnified. 



XV. — New British Insects indicated in Mr. Curtis's Guide. 

 By A. H. Haliday. 



The references are to the genera and species as numbered in 

 the 2nd edition ; and where the Appendix is referred to, the 

 number of the column is added. 



COLEOPTERA. 

 Calathus nuligena, C. 53. 5. 



C. subapterus niger antennarum basi thoracis lateribus pedibusque 

 rufescentibus ; thoracis basi utrinque leviter impressa, angulis 

 subrectis ; elytris leviter striatis : m.f. Long. 3^ lin. 

 Under stones on the top of Sliebh Donard, Downshire. 

 Omaseus tetricus, C. 37. 9. 



Has been lately described under the name Pterostichus gra- 

 cilis, Erichson Kof. M. Brand, i. 72. 



Hymenoptera. 



Ichneumon phaleratus, C. 484. 153°. 



I. ore orbita scutello et segmentorum marginibus albidis, thorace 

 multifariam albido-lineato ; femoribus tibiisque croccis, posticis 

 apice nigris, m.f.; facie albida, m. ; antennarum semiannulo 

 albo,/. Long. 3^ lin. 

 Ireland, on a willow, September. 



The characters of this species are intermediate between 

 Ichneumon and Hoplismenus. 

 Tryphon hcemosternus, C. 492. 100 b . 



T. areola nulla ; unguibus denticulatis ; pectore pedibusque runs, 

 tibiis posticis basi albidis, apice et ante basin fuscis; terebra crassa 

 deflexa, /. Long. 3 — 3J lin. 

 On willows, Ireland, May, &c. 



