352 REVISION OF THE AMYCTERIDES, ii., 



Some little time ago, the British Museum authorities sent, for 

 examination, to Mr. A. M. Lea, specimens compared with 

 Pascoe's types. I have had an opportunity of examining these, 

 and of making notes on them. Among them were authentically 

 named specimens of T. echinops, T. pustulatus, and T. funereus. 



A number of specimens of T. echinops were sent, one 

 labelled "S. echinops, compared with type"; another bore a label 

 T. simulator, an identification almost certainly wrong. Later, I 

 sent several species to the British Museum for comparison, a 

 task which Mr. K. G. Blair kindly undertook, and his notes on 

 three specimens (labelled 3, 4, 5) of T. pustulatus, I will quote 

 in full. 



" No. 3. Tubercles not so numerous as in T. simulator, and 

 bluntly conical towards base of elytra, instead of rounded; in T. 

 simulator they are also more polished, and there is an additional 

 row between third and fourth rows in No. 3, consisting of few 

 tubercles and disappearing on hinder half of elytra. Your 

 specimen agrees with our series of T pustulatus, though, in the 

 type, the large tubercles are much less developed than normally. 

 T. simulator has fewer and larger granules on thorax than T. 

 echinops (agreeing in this respect with your No. 3), and the 

 pustules on elytra, especially on hinder half, are larger and more 

 prominent." T. echinops = T . semispinosus Bohem.,(Lea det.). 



" Nos.4 and 5. Both T. pustulatus, the latter approaching type 

 in character of pustules though smaller." 



In Mr. A. M. Lea's collection, there is a specimen labelled by 

 G. J. Arrow, " Talaurinus semispinosus Bohem.,( = T. echinops 

 Pasc). The specimen sent to you labelled (by Pascoe) T. 

 simulator Pasc, seems rather different from the actual type of 

 T. simulator, which is unique." 



From the above notes it is evident that the synonymy, T. 

 echinops = T. simulator, recorded in the list of synonyms in the 

 first part of this paper, is incorrect. At the same time, it would 

 be rash to definitely sink 1\ echinops under T. semispinosus 

 until the type of the latter can be examined, though I believe 

 that this synonymy is probably correct. In most collections, T. 

 pustulatus is regarded as T. semispinosus Bohem. 



