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[October, 



A NEW SPECIES OF DRTOPS (PARNUSJ FkOM HORNING. 

 BY JAMES EDWAEDS, F.E.S. 



Drtops angltcanus, n. sp. 



t? . — Similar in appearance to Z>. firiseiu,'E,v. Antennne at tlie base nearer to 

 each otlier tlian either is to the eye. Thorax equally narrowed in front and behind, 

 the sides evenly curved from tlie base to the apex. Tarsi red, with the apex of 

 the claw-joint, narrowly darker, ffideagua subterete, its outline continuous with 

 that; of the base of the paramera ; the latter not swollen at the base, their inner 

 edges thin throughout, and tlieir apices drawn out. into a fine point {cf. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., sliv, p. 102, upper figure) ; penis cariniform in its basal half, the apical half 

 forming a subsagit.tiform expansion. In what I believe to be t.he female the sides 

 of the thorax are distinctly straighter in the front half than they are behind. 



I o;ive ourline diagram.s of the vertical aspect of the apical part 

 of the oedeagus in D. anglicanuf; and D. aurlcidaius^ Foiirc, and 

 would add that this notice must bo read in 

 conjunction with that of Z). hiridus (J. c). 

 At tlie time the latter was written I included 

 under the name D. auriculatus specimens in 

 whicli the mah- genitalia are not absolutely 

 similar ; not, indeed, without misgiving, but 

 because I had no desire to strain unduly 

 characters of a kind which have hitherto 

 hardly received from British Coleopterists the 

 attention which they seem to merit ; moreover, 

 both forms satisfied Ganglbauer's definition in respect of the carini- 

 form basal half of the penis. Dr. Sharp, however, recently called 

 my attention to the impropriety of regarding them as the same 

 species, and suggested that I should describe D. anqlicmius as new. 

 Herr Ganglbauer, to whom 1 sent a male specimen, was of opinion 

 that D. angltcanus is distinct and hitherto undescribed. I obtained 

 both D. auriculatus and D. anglicnnus at Horning in May, 1888 ; the 

 latter has hitherto only been recorded from that locality, where it 

 has occurred this year; my specimens from Mid-Norfolk {t. c, p. 103) 

 are D. atiriculatus, Fourc. 



Colesborne, Cheltenham : 



September 9th, 1909. 



3. aioyiculaKts 



