iSf.enus subdeprexsus Hey, a British insect. — A short time ago Col. St. Claire 

 Dsville sent me a specimen of Ste7ius sub(/laber Tlioms., taken in tlie marshes 

 of tile Pas-de-Calais, south of Etaples, suggesting the probability of its occur- 

 rence in our fens, the insect being a close ally of S. carbonarius Gyll., from 

 which it is separable by the simple penultimate joint of the tarsi. On 

 examining my series of the latter, two species were found to be included under 

 it ; the second, however, represented by four examples from Chobham or 

 Woking, was not jS. subglabor, but IS. subdepressus lley (identihed by 

 Col. Deville), an insect new to our list. These specimens have done duty at 

 various times for <S'. melcmarius, S. atratidus, and S. carbonarius in my collection 

 one of them was captured at Chobham in October 1878, the others durin;^ 

 recent years, and I have also found it at Puerto de Pajares in Northei-n Spain. 

 -y. subdepressus { = e.vplorator Fauv.) belongs to the section having the basal 

 iibdominal segments (2-5) bi- or quadri-carinate anteriorly, which includes 

 >S. melanarius and S. ntratuhis, from which it is mainly distinguished (following 

 Key, Ganglbauer, and IJeitter) by the flattened, unimpressed elvtra, thus 

 resembling S. carbonarius. S. carbonarius and S. subglaber belong to the section 

 having the basal abdominal segments uni- or tri-carinate, and S. subglaber is 

 quite likely to be found here, as Col. Deville suggests. S, subdepressus, he tells 

 lue, occurs in sandy wooded districts (not especially in marshy places) in 

 France, lielgium, Denmark, Geruiany (once in great plenty in a wood at 

 Leipzig), Spain (Reinoso,), etc.). Key's diagnosis is as follows: — Elongate, 

 subparallel, subdepressed, scarcely pubescent, black and rather shining, with the 

 tirst joint of the palpi pitchy-red. Head distinctly wider than the prothorax, 

 as broad * as the elytra, somewhat strongly and deusel}' punctured, obsoletely 

 bisulcate, with the intervening space slightly convex posteriorly. Prothorax 

 oblong, narrower than the elytra, subarcuate at the sides anteriorly, subretracted 

 behind, somewhat strongly and densely punctured, equal, subdepressed 

 posteriorly, with a trace of an abbreviated median groove, j'llytra about the 

 length of the prothorax, even, somewhat strongl}' and deeply punctured. 

 Abdomen rather finely and densely punctured, more finel}' and more densely 

 punctured posteriorly, with the three basal segments distinctly 4-carinulate at 

 their base.— G. C. Champion, Horsell : January 8th, 1921. 



BrucMis rujipes Hbst. ab. apicatus JRey, a British Insect, toith some notes 

 on the typa-forni, and other aben-ations, — On July lltli last I swept a small 

 B) Kchus beneath a blackthorn hedge on the cliff above St. George's Well, near 

 Padstow, N. Cornwall. This insect has the antennal joints 1-5 and 11 

 yellowish red and the others black, and it proves to be Bruchus rujipes Hbst. 

 ab. apicatus Key, a rare form, which, so far as 1 am aAvare, has not been taken 

 n Kriiaiu before. Bruchus rufipes Herbst (1783) is generally regarded as the 

 correct name for the type-form, B. mibilus Boheman (1833) being treated as a 

 synonym. 



Gorham (1873) and Sharp (1883), however, use Boheman's name, and the 

 European Catalogue (1906) gives nubilus as the type and rujipes Baudi (1886) 

 as a synonym, not mentioning Herbst at all. Again, B. luteicornis Illiger 

 (1794) is regarded as a distinct species by Gorham (1873), Sharp (1883), 



* Incorrectly jjiven "de la lonf^uuur dea elytres " in the diagnosis only, 



