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knowing tlie typical Signoreti, I offer no opinion on the mnttor. Curiously, T>r. 

 Reuter's pygmcBus appears to be the same as Fiebcr's, although the latter is not 

 alluded to.— J. W. D.] 



ScoLOPOSTETHUS ADJUKCTUS (Catal., 14, 2) is supposed by Mr. 

 Saunders (Synops., 144, 2) to be a variety of Sc. picfiis, Schill. This 

 supposition seems to me to be without reason. S. adjunctus, D. and 

 S., is much smaller and differs too much in the structure and colour o£ 

 the antennae to be taken only as a A'ariety of Sc. pictus, the latter also 

 lives solely on the shore. AVith much more reason, Sc. adjunctus, 

 affinis, vSehill., and filosus, Eeut., could be regarded as varieties of one 

 species ; all these are dimorphous ; Sc. ficUis on the contrary is 

 always developed. 



ScoLOPOSTETHUS AFFiNis (Catal., 14, 3). — Mr. Saunders has kindly 

 sent me specimens of the species described under this name by British 

 authors. This is the same that I have named ^S*. affinis, Schill. {vide 

 Eemarques synon. in Ann. Soc. ent. de France, Ser. 5, iv, p. 561, 8); 

 but it is not synonymous with S. affinis. Thorns., as cited by Messrs. 

 Douglas and Scott {I. c). Sc. affinis, Schill., E.eut., has the elytra 

 finely pubescent, as also Mr. Saunders says in his diagnosis of the 

 species (Synops., 145, 3) ; S. offinis. Thorns., which I have called 

 S. pilosus (Eem. syn., 562, 10) has them on the contrary with long, 

 uj)right hairs. I possess this species from Finland, Sweden, Russia, 

 Siberia, and Madeira; probably it will also be found in Britain. It 

 lives in dmnp places. 



ScoLOPOSTETHUS ERiCETOEUM (Catal., 14, 4, and Saund. Synops., 

 145, 4). — lu the Ann. Soc. ent. de France, Ser. 5, iv, 561, 7, I have 

 shown this species to be the true decoratus, Hahn (Wauz. Ins., i, 139, 

 fig. 71). 



[The antennoD of Scolopostethus ericetorum, Leth., are deep black, the second 

 joint only usually having its extreme base pale. Yet Dr. Reuter, while he admits 

 S. affinis of British authors to be S. affinis, Schill., sees that S. ericetorum is decoratus, 

 Hahn (which, however, Ilahn acknowledged was affinis, Schill., but changed the name 

 because Schilling knew only the bracliypterous form !), which is described as having 

 "the antennJE black-brown, the first joint at the end and tlie second at the base 

 "reddish-yellow." This is certainly not the character of <S'. ericetorum, Leth. — 

 J. W. D.] 



Trapezonotus distinctus (Catal ,15,1). — This species is without 

 doubt only a variety of Tr. disfin(juendus, Flor. Mr. Douglas has, in 



