1922.] 189 



polished patch on steniopleurn. Acrostichals and doi't-o- centrals very difficult 

 to trace, apparently the few very short hairs present are arranged as two rows 

 of widely separated acrostichals and uniserial dorso-centrals, the last l-'i 

 pairs of the latter before scutelluni longer. One notoplenral, one supra-alar, 

 and a pair of apical scutellar, bristles; the latter with a pair of outer short 

 hairs near by. Abdomen apparently very extensively membranous, reddish- 

 brown, dulled with brownish-grey dust, and terminating in two short, slender, 

 hairy, papillae. Any pubescence present very short and intonspicuous. Legs 

 yellow, front tibiae and tarsi and tips of posterior tarsi brownish. Front 

 femora not very stout, spindle-shaped, bearing 2-3 distinct yellowish bristly 

 hairs on basal half postero-ventrally. Front tibiae quite slender. Middle 

 femora stout and quite one-third longer than middle tibiae, the double row of 

 minute black spines extend only as far as the tibiae reach when bent up 

 beneath, and on the basal third beneath there are some longer yellowish bristly 

 hairs, and postero-ventrally a row of longer yellow bristles the whole length 

 of femur. Middle tibiae much stouter at base than at tip, laterally somewhat 

 compressed, incurved and terminatint,^ beneath in a short trowel-shaped pro- 

 jection. Hind femora and tibiae quite slender. Wings with cubital vein 

 almost straight and discal vein only slightly bowed at middle, for the rest 

 practically parallel with cubital. Cross-veins superimposed, the lower one 

 only slightly oblique. Ilalteres dusky. 



Length 2-25-2-5 mm. 



Loc. Seychelles, Silhouette : forest above Mare avix Cochons, 

 1000-2000 ft., ix.l908, 3 $ ; near Mont Pot-a-eau, highest forest, over 

 2000 ft., viii.1908, 5 $ . 



Newmarket. 

 June 1922. 



Asemum striatum, etc., in the New Forest. — This Longicorn, until com- 

 paratively recent years, was generally regarded as a somewhat uncommon 

 species of strictly northern distribution in Britain, confined to pine woods in 

 Scotland and not being found south of the Border; and the announcement of 

 the capture of a specimen in the New Forest by Messrs. B. G. Kye and 

 P. F. Skinner, in the early summer of 1893, created no small sensation 

 among Coleopterists. Further records of the occurrence of single specimens 

 of the beetle in tlie South appeared at intervals in subsequent years, and 

 in 1902 it was found in abundance in the New Forest by Mr. F. G. Smith. 

 This gentleman, in Trans. Ent. Soc, 1905, pp. 165-176, gives a detailed 

 and highly interesting account of the life-history of the insect, wherein he 

 expressed the opinion (I, c. p. 165) that " it has been abundant in the New 

 Forest for a long period of years, and has only failed to be detected because 

 of its habits." The beetle has since been taken pi'etty regularly, but 

 sparingly as a rule, by Coleopterist visitors to the Forest, myself included ; 

 it is certainly of most retiring habits, and nearly all my captures have been 

 made in the same way as the late Mr. E. C. Rye found it long ago at 

 Rannoch (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. iii, p. 64) "lurking in the deep layers and 



