520 R. I. POCOCK 



The keels situated on a level with the summit of the segments 

 horizontal or sloping upwards posteriorly, the anterior shoulders 

 small ; the external margins lightly convex and sloped outwards 

 and backwards, furnished with three teeth, the posterior of which 

 is close to the posterior angle and gives it a bifid appearance. 

 From the 12"^ segment the posterior angles project backwards 

 beyond the line of the hinder border of the tergites. The sculp- 

 luring of the whole of the dorsal surface well developed, the 

 two posterior transverse rows of tubercles well defined , each 

 tipped with a seta; the area in front of the transverse sulcus 

 indistinctly subdivided and furnished with four setae. 



Copulatory foot of the c/ as in the figure 8. 



Length 8 mm. 



Locality: Fiesole (near Florence). 



At the first glance this species looks like a Brachydcsmus; it 

 has, however, 20 distinct segments. 



Family CHORDEUMIDAE. 

 3. Oraspedosoiiia- raAvlinsii , Leach. 



Lucerne. 



Family CALLIPODIIXE. 

 4. Ca,llix>«s fbetidissiiiius (Savi). 

 Florence. 



Family lULIDAE. 

 5. Miesoivilus niariae, sp. n. 



{Fig. 9) 



Colour a deep green, the anterior end of the body pale ful- 

 vous, reddish at the posterior end; antennae and legs pale 

 yellow. 



Head smooth, only minutely striolate , marked with a trans- 

 verse stria, without a vertical frontal sulcus, and without frontal 

 setae; the la.bral region furnished witli 4 distinct setiferous pores. 

 Antennae not conspicuously davate. Collum entirely smooth, its 



