lot (April, 



Pempelia formosa more than any other species, but has no resemblance whatever to 

 P. Tiostilis, Steph., and the only conceivable reason for the confounding of the two 

 together seems to be that the basal portion of tlie fore-wings in adelphella is of a 

 rich red, almost brick-red, and that the same portion of the wings in hostilis is of 

 a faint shade of the same colour. This ei-ror was most emphatically pointed out by 

 M. Ragonot (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xsii, p. 55), yet the name adelphella continues to 

 appear in many collections and lists.— Id. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ANASPIS FROM SCOTLAND, 

 WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE BLACK SPECIES OCCURRING 

 IN BRITAIN. 



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



The publicatiou of the E-ev. W. W. Fowler's Monograph of the 

 British Anaspis (Ent. Mo. Mag., sxv, pp. 331 — 338) has induced me 

 to examine the black species contained in my collection, two of which 

 have been separated as distinct for the past ten years, but not named. 

 One of these is the species described by Mr. Fowler under the name 

 of A. Garneysi ; this I have captured in some numbers at Loughton 

 and Darenth, and it is probably not uncommon in the London district, 

 Dr. Power Laving met with it in various localities. As Mr. Fowler 

 states {op. cit., p. 334), it comes very near A. nigripes, Bris. ; in fact, 

 it agrees precisely in its male characters with the description of that 

 insect, from which it differs in its paler legs, shorter thorax, and 

 larger size. It is probable that this and the species described below 

 under the name of A. septentrional is have been confounded by con- 

 tinental authors with A. frontalis, notwithstanding the exceedingly 

 well-marked characters to be found in the form of the ventral 

 segments of the male. The colour of the legs is a character of very 

 questionable value ; in fact, most of my examples have the posterior 

 femora infuscate or piceous, instead of " almost-eutirely yellow." The 

 second species I am quite unable to identify from the works of Costa, 

 Mulsant, Thomson, or Emery ; the following is a description of it : — 



Anaspis septenteionalis, n. sp. 

 Elongate, black, the front of the head and the palpi flavo-testaceous, thickly 

 and finely pubescent, the prothorax and the elytra very finely transversely strigose. 

 Antennas black, the three or four basal joints flavo-testaceous, filiform, in the male 

 very elongate and slender, in the female considerably sliortcr, the penultimate joints 

 in both sexes longer than broad, but much more elongate in the male than in the 

 female ; prothorax about one-third broader than long, bisinuate at the base, the 

 hind angles rectangular ; elytra with the transverse strigie more distinct than on the 

 prothorax ; beneath black ; legs compai-atively slender : the anterior pair (including 

 the coxa-) ilavo-testaceous, with the tarsi slightly darker, the middle pair fuaco- 



