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numerous small hills of very fine foraminiferal sand, and in every 

 collection of insects that I have seen from that locality a number 

 of specimens have been partially covered with it. The sand is 

 mixed with powdered limestone and extends in patches for at 

 least 20 miles inland; when collectina; on a windy day it frequently 

 blows into the collector's boxes and bottles. I have a number of 

 specimens of Catasarcus and other weevils from that locality 

 (some taken two years ago) on which this sand or grit is present 

 as I write. In Pascoe's description and in the tabulation there 

 is nothing else needing comment. His specimen was evidently 



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C ocHRACEUS. — "The elytra of this species are closely covered 

 with scales of a clear ochre-yellow, except a, broad abbreviated 

 stripe of pale ashy at the side." This goes for nothing; it may 

 have been an individual variation or caused by the mealy exuda- 

 tion that all the species give off. In the tabulation it is men- 

 tioned as having "scales on the elytra adpressed, ivith thicTc black 

 setcd posteriorly, issuing from small naked points." This would 

 seem to imply that the setae were on the elytra, and should this 

 be the case it would be a strongly marked variety, as in all the 

 hundreds of specimens I have seen none have thick black setaj 

 towards the apex of elytra (except, of course, on the spines). In 

 the description, however, Pascoe does not mention elytral setae, 

 but states " body beneath . . . having small punctiform 

 spaces ... on each of which is a longish seta " and " legs 

 . with numerous black setae on the tibife and tarsi." So 

 that probably the setae are not on the elytra, and as all the 

 specimens I have seen, unless greatly abraded, are setose beneath 

 (the set*, however, often almost hidden) and on the legs, this 

 character may also be dismissed. 



C. ALBisPARSUS. — No character is mentioned in the description 

 or tabulation that is worth consideration; Pascoe's specimen was 

 evidently partially abraded. 



C. CARBO. — "The round prominent eye and the form of the 

 prothorax aflford a very trenchant diagnosis of this species. My 

 specimen is probably somewhat worn, as the scales are unsym- 



