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Foudr , whicli latter is, according to Weise, merely a colour variety of the older 

 ptisilla of Duftschmidt ; it stands under the name montana in the collections of 

 Mr. Ryo and Dr. Sharp, but of two speciaiens sent under that name by Canon 

 Fowler one certainly is oleracea, L. ; Dr. Sharp has taken the species on the Malvern 

 Hills and at Mickleham, in August and September respectively, and also, quite 

 recently, near Cambridge, where he found it exclusively confined to Helianthemum, 

 and just emerging on September 3rd. 



131, Rupert Street, Norwich: 



September \Oth, 1891. 



FURTHER REMARKS ON THE GENUS EUGASTER, SERVILLE 



{OUTHOPTERA—HETRODIDJL), WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO 



NEW SPECIES. 



BY W. F. KIRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., 

 Assistant in Zoological Department, British Museum (Natural History), S. Kensington. 



Since my remarks on U. sjnnuJosus, Linn., were published {^antea 

 pp. 210, 211), Dr. Sharp has kindly presented a male Eugaster to the 

 Museum, which so much resembles^, spinulosus, except in size and in 

 the colour of the pale markings, that I should have regarded it as the 

 true male (which I believe is still unknown), but that Dr. Sharp 

 informs me that he possesses a female which does not differ from the 

 male, except in the sexual characters. 



EuciASTER PowYsi, Sharp, MS. 



Head and pronotum testaceous ; head above the antennae black, reticulate- 

 punctate, frontal tubercle small, obtuse ; clypeus tawny, smooth, with scattered 

 punctures, most immerous on the sides, which are slightly blotched with black ; 

 antennaj red for the basal third, and black beyond ; mouth parts mostly blackish ; 

 mandibles broad, tawny, with a deep groove on the outer side ; palpi black towards 

 the tips ; pronotum tawny, with black spines, with one longitudinal and two broader 

 but shallower transverse depressions. Front edge with a series of small spines, about 

 five on each side of the median line, diminishing in size to the centre ; lateral spines 

 five, the 2nd and 3rd much the largest ; the intermediate space of the pronotum is 

 very rugose, and crossed by irregular rows of black humps between each pair of 

 lateral spines ; the spaces between these humps are marked with deep punctures. 

 Hinder lobes more reddish, raised, with eight or nine large spines on each side, di- 

 minishing to the centre. Above the front coxse is a strong black spine ; prosternum 

 tawny, armed with two short concolorous spines, rather wide apart ; in front of the 

 coxoe is a large black spot on each side. Legs tawny, the extremities of the femora, 

 the tarsi, and the front tibiae, black ; base of the femora spotted with black on the 

 sides ; all the tibiffi armed with four or five small spines beneath. Abdomen black, 

 smooth and shining, with numerous red spots and dots, largest and most numerous 

 at the extremities of the segments. Long, corp., 30 mm. 



Hah. : Morocco. 



