110 [May. 



tudinal) almost in a right angle, and some distance from the edge of wing 

 leaving a long stalk to the 1st posterior cell, more than J the length of the 

 marginal cross vein. Alulae rusty yellow ; hal teres with dark knob. Legs with 

 the femora dark all excepting very narrow tips ; tibia dark, with the bases 

 broadly and tips narrowly yellow ; tarsi dark above, but paler beneath, espe- 

 cially on front jaair ; and also pale between the joints. Length, 8 mm. 



Herr Becker remarked that tliis species was quite unknown to liini, 

 and called special attention to the sculpture of the frons, which seems 

 an important character. Owing to the difficulty of deciding whether its 

 antennae are " rothbraun" or " schwarzbraim," it is uncertain as to which 

 group it would run in Becker's tables ; but if regarded as " rothbraun " 

 it would run to latiigidosa, Becker, and brachysoma, Egger, neither of 

 which it resembles, and which can be distinguished at a glance by the 

 entirely yellow tibiae of lan'ujnlosa, and the nearly bare eyes of brachy- 

 soma ; if i-egarded as " schwarzbraiui " it would run to the group of 

 species including grossa, Fall., viontana, Egg., and alpina, Zett., which 

 it resembles no more closely ; they ai-e large, densely hairy species ; 

 grossa, Fall., has yellow tibiae ; and the sculpturation of the frons 

 alone would separate it from any of them. 



I have named this species after the captor, the Eev. E. E. Eodgers, 

 who first introduced me to the study of Entomology many years ago. 



One female specimen; Biskra — Algeria; 1904 (Eev. E. E. 

 Eodgers) . 



45, Handsworth Wood Koad, 



Hands worth. Staffs. : 

 March, 1911. 



A note on Liodes {Anisotoma, Schmidt) similata, Rye. — I have for long sus- 

 pected that the Liodes similata, Rye, described by Ganglbauer in " Die Kiifer 

 von Mitteleuropa," vol. iii, p. 226, is not the true L. similata, and I think I can 

 now definitely say that this is the case. Dr. Fleischer has kindly sent me a 

 specimen of the insect known on the Continent luider the above name, and I find 

 that it does not answer to the original description of the species (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. vii, p. 8). Probably the type is in the Mason collection, and so I am unable 

 to .examine it, but Mr. Donisthorpe lias lent me a sijecimen named by Eye 

 himself, which in every detail matches his description. The Continental 

 species is a very distinct form, and is jDlaced by Ganglbauer in a diffex*- 

 ent subgenus from L. hadia, Sturm, on account of the shape of the meso- 

 sternal keel. It answers the description of L. similata in being larger, and in 

 having proportionately longer elytra than L. badia, but the punctuation of the 

 striae of the elytra is certainly not " much more delicate," and the -ith stria is 

 not " waved abotit the upper third." It differs from the true L. similata in 

 having the elyti-a still longer, and the punctuation of the striae much stronger. 



