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M.Jlexuosus, Steph., and H.femoralis, Kies., are considered synonymous in our 

 catalogues ; the latter insect is, however, smaller, with the elytra rather shorter and 

 the hinder indented cross-markings situated a little nearer the middle ; the mark- 

 ings, according to Kuwert, are reddish in E. flexnosiis and yellow in H.femoralis. 

 I have only seen one specimen of the true H.femoralis, which was sent nie by Mr. 

 Waterhouse (without locality) and named by Herr Kuwert ; it certainly looks very 

 different from H. flexuosus, being shorter, smaller and duller, with the general 

 colour dark and the markings hardly visible. H. flexuosus is, apparently, a rather 

 common species with us, but Herr Kuwert says that he only possesses one example 

 of it from Morlaix. H.femoralis would seem to be rare in Britain, but there still 

 appears to be considerable confusion with regard to it, and considerable doubt as to 

 what really is the true H. femoralis of Kiesenwetter ; Herr Kuwert sent me a 

 specimen named H.femoralis from Pomerania a short while ago, and now writes 

 concerning it, that he is inclined to believe " that the/e»!ora^/* from Pomerania, 

 which has the legs paler and is larger, may perhaps be the arenarius of Kiesen- 

 wetter." With regard to H. arenarius I cannot discover an authentic British 

 specimen ; I believe that light examples o{ flexuosus and Icsvigatus are made to do 

 duty for it. The following is Kuwert's account of the species : — " A little larger 

 than yemora/is. According to Kiesenwetter (I have no examples to refer to) in 

 colour, markings and pubescence it comes half way between salinus and femoralis, 

 but the colouring is brighter and the legs are entirely yellow." The only locality 

 he gives is Ireland ; as, however, I have pointed out {I. c, vol. iii, p. 386) Mr. Crotch 

 came to the conclusion that the Irish specimens did not difPer materially from H. 

 femoralis ; I believe, therefore, that H- arenarius should be regarded merely as a 

 synonym of the last named species. 



Among the insects which I sent to Herr Kuwert were specimens named H. 

 rectus, Wat., from Mr. Waterliouse's and Mr. Champion's collections. These he is 

 inclined to regard as a new variety or species, and proposes that they should be 

 described as intermedius, n. sp., as being intermediate between H. salinus and H. 

 fossor ; H. rectus has usually been regarded as synonymous with Hfossor, but will 

 now stand as a variety of H. salinus. Herr Kuwert was not aware that it had been 

 described, but, apart from this, there is a species of Kiesenwetter's already in ex- 

 istence named intermedius, which comes near hispidulus, Kies. 



H. salinus is a rather large species (6 — 7 mm.), parallel, with bright yellow 

 markings, and legs entirely yellow ; the elytra are twice as long as together broad ; 

 the thorax is short, with Die sides strongly rounded and the margins more or less 

 strongly yellow ; the club of the antennae is somewhat long ; the colouring is varia- 

 ble and the pubescence thick. The variety rectus differs in being smaller, with the 

 antennse darker, and the legs dark instead of light ; it also lias, in the male, two 

 small, but distinct, prominences on the head behind the clypeus, which are scarcely 

 visible in the type form. H. fossor has lighter legs than the var. rectus, and only 

 one small prominence on the head behind the clypeus. 



H. marginaius and H. Imvigaltis are often confused. The latter is rather the 

 larger species, and is duller and more plainly pubescent, with the markings longer 

 and more colon-like (colonartigen) on the disc of elytra ; in marginatus they are 

 smaller and more often form spots ; the scutellary region appears to be usually dark 



