88 [April, 



" positively VA. anthobia, Villa," which species must therefore be added 

 to the British list. 



Its position there is next before A. familiaris, Duft. From that 

 species and from A. lucida, Duft., Bedel distinguishes it by the pre- 

 sence of the prescutellary pore (Coleopteres du basin de la Seine, i), 

 but Putzeys, in a Monoo;ra|)h of the Amnrce of Europe in Marseul's 

 "I'Abeille," 1870, adds further details as follows : - 



" Cette espece, qui a les dimensions de V A. familiar is tient de 

 celle-ci et de la lucida. Elle a la taille et la coloration de la 1*'', les 

 angles anterieurs du corselet non avances et les yeux saillants comme 

 dans la 2*^^ ; mais elle differe de I'une et de I'autre par son corselet 

 plus court, plus etroit vers la base, par les cotes de la base, non pro- 

 longes en arriere et plutot recules ; par les fossettes non ponctuees ; et 

 par I'existence d'un point pilifere a la base de la strie prescutellaire." 



In the specimens I have examined these thoracic difierences do 

 not appear to me to be quite convincing, and as the fovese of the 

 thorax, both of A. familiar is and A. lucida, are sometimes quite im- 

 punctate, the absence of punctures in A. antJiohia can hardly be taken 

 as a good specific character. The pore, however, at the base of the 

 scutellary stria is very distinct, and in my experience always absent 

 from the other two species. 



9, Queen's Road, South Norwood, Surrey : 

 March, 1905. 



MALACEIUS SPINOSUS, Ee., IN SHEPPEY : A CORRECTION. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, P.Z.S. 



Since the publication of my note on the capture of this species 

 in Sheppey, M. Bedel has been kind enough, to send me & $ oi M. 

 spinosus,^Y., ivom La Bernerie (Loire-Inferieure) and a ? of the very 

 closely allied. M. vulneratus, Ab., from Arronville, near Paris (Seine 

 et Oise). On comparing these specimens with the Sheppey insect 

 I find that the latter is really referable to M. vulneratus, and must 

 bear that name. 



The two species are in fact very similar, M. vulneratus differing 

 from M. spinosus in its narrower, elongate form, the more slender 

 antennae, and the absence of the erect blackish hairs on the elytra. 

 Both insects are found upon rushes in marshy places. The distribu- 

 tion of M. vulneratus, so far as at present known, is somewhat re- 

 markable : France (Arronville) ; Saxony (Eisleben) ; Austria Hungary 

 (Neusiedlersee) ; Eoumania (Macin, Dobrudscha) ; and Persia. 



