144 [June, 



points out, "The t\\n species are somewhat alike in size and markings, 

 but very dissiniihii' in t'onii : //. (/ra nnJariti is almost uviii, in H. 

 bilinedtu.^ tlie widest part of tiie elytra is behind the middle, the thorax 

 in the latter is a litth; less contracted in front, and the insect is more 

 depressed and loiii^^er, j^iving it a very different appearance. The 

 inner yellow line is str;iigl)ter and runs closer to the base of the elytra." 

 It may also be noted that the puncturation of the. elytra is distinctly 

 coarser on the disc. The s|)ecies was fairly abundant in one ditch 

 when found b}' me, ami can, I have no doubt, e;isily be founil by 

 any one who will lot)k for it at the proper time ; in fact, it is pi'obable 

 that the records of II. (jranularis from Deal relate to this insect.* 



Ur. Shari)'s description of //. bUinentaa, Sturm, taken from iiis 

 work on the Dytiscid;e (pp. 452, 453) is as foUovt's : — 



" Elot)()ato-ov<ilis, parum convetus, parce suhtHiter piiiic/aius et piif/cscens, 

 nigricans, eli/tris ver.sii.s lalpra I ineix loiiijiludiiiaUhHS duabus testaceis, externa lata 

 et xapius tinea fusca dioixa, pedilius rafis, anteiinis fuscis t/axi rufo, prothorace 

 versus tatera stria impressa abbreviata, extus eamdem testaceo ; corpore subtus 

 nitido, coxis posterioribus parce obsolete pnuclatis. Long., 2-5, lat., \\ mm." 



27, Hereford riquaro, S.W. 

 Mai/ Hth, 1903. 



TYPES OF SIPUONAPTERA IN THE UALEIAN COLLECTION. 



Bl' THE HON. N. C. ROTIISCIII LB, M.A., F.L.S. 



" The History of Glanvilles Wootton "f contains the descrip- 

 tion of twenty-two new species of ISvphonaptera. In the " Zoological 

 Record," volume xv, p. 245, 187S, under " lusecta," Mr. W. F. Kirby 

 has criticised these additions to the British List. Since that date 

 these new s|)ecies have, so far as we know, been entirely ignored, no 

 reference to them having been made by any of the students of this 

 must neglected order. In the present article the author has attempted 

 to investigate the validy of these twenty-two species. After au 

 exhaustive examination of the t3'pes of most of these species, which 

 Mr. Dale most kindly lent for the purpose, the author has decided to 

 reduce the majority of the species in question to the rank of synonyms. 

 A few of the names, however, must be retained, and in consequence 

 the general synonymy of the group is affected. The types of all the 

 species mentioned were secured in the pai'ish of Glanvilles Wootton. 



* Since writing the above Mr. Uonisthorpe and I have been to Deal in search of it, and of 

 D>jscldriu» extentv.*, V\\t7,.,tiik.ii\\ by me in 1890— 1.802, but have failed to .secure either. Laccu- 

 pliUus vancyaluK, Sturm, was abundant in some of the ditches. — A. J. C. 



t ''The History of GlanviUes Wootton in the (..'ounty of Dorset, including its i^oology and 

 Botany," by C. W. Dale. London: liatchards, 1878. 



