Q [January, 



LACCOBIUS SINUATUS, Mots., AN UNRECOaNISED BRITISH 



SPECIES. 



BY NORMAN H. JOT, M.R.C.S., F.E.S., 



AND 



J. E. LE B. TOMLIN, M,A., F.E.S. 



When critically examining the Coleoptera we took on Lundy 

 Island last April we came across four specimens of a Laccohius 

 which was evidently distinct from any recognised British species. 

 On consulting Ganglbauer's " Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa " we easily 

 identified them as L. sinuntus, Mots. In our catalogues this name is 

 given as a synonym of L. nigriceps, Thorns., but it has long been 

 given to a distinct species on the Continent, Prom L. nigriceps, 

 which it resembles in the punctuation f)f the elytra and the smooth- 

 ness of the interspaces of the thorax, L. sinuafus may be easily 

 distinguished by its more oblong form ; it is also on the average 

 rather smaller. The male characters are of importance. In the (^ 

 of L. niqriceps the under-surface of the intermediate femora close to 

 the trochanters has a small patch of short, stiff, somewhat closely set 

 bristles, which are not found in the ^ of L. sinuntus. As the ^ ^ 

 may be easily recognised by the dilated anterior tarsi, this character 

 is a very useful and distinct one. From the other three British 

 species L. sinuotus may be distinguislied by its less rounded form. 

 We have also seen specimens of it from Cambridge (Gorham) 

 and North Wales (W. E. Sharp) ; it is probably, however, not a com- 

 mon species in Britain as it is not represented in the Power collection. 



December, 1906. 



ALGERIAN MICRO LE PIDO PTERA. 

 BY THE RT. HON. LORD WAL8INGHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 

 (Continued from Vol. XLI, p. 128). 



3478 : 1. — SCYTHEIS BUBANIAE, sp. n. 

 Antennae {\), tawny fuscous. Palpi slender, projecting; hoary, with sooty 

 suffusion towards the apex. Haustellum very long, clothed with hoary scales 

 toward the base. Head purplish fuscous. Thorax purplish fuscous, mottled with 

 brownish cinereous. Foreioings rather stunted, lanceolate, with rounded cilia ; dark 

 purplish fuscous, evenly speckled with brownish cinereous and hoary whitish scales, 

 these indicating no pattern, except one obscure spot at the end of the cell ; toward 

 the apex and termen they become somewhat elongate, partially projecting over the 

 base of the long dark smoky grey cilia. Exp. al., 11—12 mm. Eindwings nar- 



