112 VARIETIES. 



Twenty-seven written communications have reached us, 

 directly or indirectly, on the subject of our review of British 

 Entomology,— twenty- five are commendatory; two condemna- 

 tory : one of these, complaining of the severity of the review, 

 but admitting the strength of our ground ; the other from Mr. 

 Dale, disapproving of the manner and matter. 



Art. IX. — Varieties. 



1. Note on Dryophilas Anobioides. — In the first part of 

 M. Guerin's Magasin de Zoologie, a small Ptinideous beetle 

 is figured and described by M. Chevrolat, under the name of 

 Dryophilus anobioides, nearly allied to Anobhim ; but which, 

 as to its generic characters, differs from that genus in the 

 great elongation and slenderness of the three terminal joints 

 of the antennae. In this figure I recognized an insect which I 

 had captured ten years ago in the neighbourhood of London, 

 and had presented to Mr. Haworth, in whose collection it 

 remained unnoticed, and which that gentleman and myself 

 had deemed to be a new genus, distinct from Anobium. 



In the spring of the present year, the Rev. G. T. Rudd was 

 fortunate enough to capture this species again upon the Broom 

 at Coombe Wood ; and having been so kind as to give me a 

 specimen, I carefully examined it with the original specimen, 

 with which it was found exactly to correspond, except in the 

 terminal joints of the antennae ; whence it was evident that the 

 two individuals were of opposite sexes, and that M. Chevrolat's 

 figure and description were taken from a male, the female 

 being unknown to him. It was evident, also, from these 

 specimens perfectly agreeing in form, sculpture, and with 

 M. Chevrolat's, that his figure of the antennae (for want of 

 comparison of the length of these organs in the sexes) repre- 

 sented them rather too long in the terminal joints. 



In the English specimens, the ninth joint of the antennae in 

 the males is at least as long as all the eight preceding; the 

 tenth, a little shorter; and the terminal joint, still rather 

 shorter. These three joints, instead of being dilated at the 

 tips on the inside, are of equal breadth throughout, the base 

 only of each being slightly narrowed. In the female, on the 



