1916.] 99 



Misetus, with its sino-le species, differs from all other Phaeogenini 

 in the couspicuous procumbent central clypeal tooth, not to be seen in 

 carded specimens ; the metathorax slopes gradually from base to apex, 

 with petiolar area reaching its centime, and areola longer than broad, 

 though sometimes apically indistinct ; the petiole is slender and the 

 second segment scabrous, with nearly circular thyridii and no gastro- 

 coeli ; it is at once known from all Phaeogenes species by the abruptly 

 declivous occiput, rendering the vertex strongly transverse and the 

 temples almost as narrow as in the Tryphonid genus Polydistus. 



The species is wide-spread in Belgium, Prussia, central and 

 southern Sweden, Lapland and France ; but seems to be nowhere 

 common, and has not yet been bred. 



In the British Catalogue of 1915 it should be placed as 272a. 



Monks Soham House, Suffolk : 

 November 20th, 1915. 



NOTES ON MELANDBYIDAE (3). 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



(Continued from page 83.) 



OSPHYINA. 



OsPHYA Illiger. 



A holarctic genus, extending to Syria, Japan, Formosa, and Gua- 

 temala. Three from Assam or India are now added, one of them 

 having the facies of a Conopaljnis. 



1. — Osphya vandalitiae. 



Notlins vandalitiae Kraatz, Berl. ent. Zeitschr., 1868, p. 335. 

 Osphya vandalitiae Seidl. Naturg. Ins. Deutschl., v. 2, p. QQ7 . 



Hah. : Spain ; Portugal. 



In the Museum there is a J* of this species from Portugal coloured 

 like 0. aeneipennis Kriechb., var. maculicollis Pic, i.e., the prothorax is 

 rufo-testaceous, with two black spots, and the elytra are metallic 

 green. It has the vestitvire dense and coarse, and the puncturing of 

 the elytra closer and finer than in 0. aeneipennis ; the legs testaceous 

 (a spot on the posterior knees excepted) ; the intermediate and posterior 

 trochanters each armed with a small tooth or spine ; and the femora 

 much thickened, the posterior pair curved and clavate. 



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