1 34 [June, 



Forficula {Apterygida) gravidula, Gerst., Arcli. f. Nal., xxxv, p. 221 (1869) ; Glied.- 



Fauna Ins. Sans., p. 50, t. 3, fig. 9. 

 Sphingolahls gravidula, de Borm., Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva (2), siv, p. 407. 



Mr. Burr thus describes it :— Dark castaneous. Antennas with 12—14 joints. 

 Pronotum square, the lateral margins pale, and the hinder margins straight. Wings 

 absent. Feet testaceous, the femora sometimes fuscous towards the base. Male 

 anal segment square, impressed in the middle, with no tubercles ; the branches of 

 the forceps small, with a tooth inside at the base and another at the apex. Sub- 

 genital lamida hexagonal. Female anal segment like that of the male ; branches 

 of forceps short, curved in at the apex. Length of body, $ ? , 8 ram. 



Differs from A. albipennis in its darker colour and hairless body, and also in 

 the position of the tooth on the forceps of the male. 



23, Kanelagh Eoad, Sheerness : 

 April 12ih, 1897. 



OCCUERENCE OF EXOMIAS CBAEYPEITHESJ PYRENMUS, Seidl., 



AT PLYMOUTH. 



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



This insect, not hitherto recorded from Britain, has been found 

 occasionally by Mr. J. H. Keys in the Plymouth district since the 

 year 1888, and it appears to be not at all rare in several places in that 

 neighbourhood. He has captured specimens of it at Eadford, Lipstone 

 Park, Bovisand, and Whitsand Bay — at roots of grass, in faggots, 

 under bark, and also^by beating hawthorn. B. pyrencBus is treated 

 by Dr. Seidlitz (Die Otiorhynchiden, p. 73 [1868]) as a variety of 

 B. araneiformis, Schrank (= hrunnipes, Oliv.) ; but it is certainly 

 a good species, and by no means confined to the Pyrenees, as he 

 supposed. M. Bedel, who has been kind enough to compare one of 

 the Plymouth examples with the tv])es of B. pi/renceus, 8eidl., which 

 are contained in the Brisout collection in Paris, is also of opinion that 

 it should be regarded as distinct. He informs me that he has taken 

 it in the Forest of Cerisy, Calvados, Prance. The two species may 

 be readily separated by the following characters : — 



Rostrum in the S strongly, in the ? feebly, dilated at the apex ; prothorax with 

 very coarse, deep, scattered punctures; elytra convex in the ^ , a little flattened 

 on the disc in the ? , coarsely seriate-punctate, the punctures not very closely 

 placed, becoming much finer and sliallowcr towards the apes, and placed in 

 shallow striae, which are sometimes obsolete, the interstices flat or feebly con- 

 vex ; body glabrous, or very finely and sparsely pubescent... 



araneiformis, Schrank. 

 {hrunnipes, Oliv.). 



Rostrum feebly dilated at the apex in both sexes, and also more parallel ; prothorax 

 somewhat closely and coarsely punctured, a narrow snioolli space down the 



