NOTES ON THE GENUS GONATOPUS (dRYININjE). 81 



To admit of Westwood's species, Dr. Kieffer's table should, I think, 

 be varied as follows : 



1. Omit " vertex strongly excavate " before the number 3. 



2. For " sociabilis, Kieff.," read " sepsoides, West." 



3. For " 3, etc.," read: " 3. Vertex slightly depressed, but 



not strongly excavated Ijunghii, West. 



Vertex strongly excavated .. .. .. .. . . 3u. 



3a. Thorax entirely red (rufotestaceous), second node trans- 

 versely striate at base oratorius, West. 



Thorax partly black, second node not transversely striate 



at base Shis." 



and then continue at 3 in the table. 



The following are the localities of the British species so far as I 

 am able to determine tbem. Without types, or specimens compared 

 with types, certainty seems almost impossible : — G. striata*, Kieff. (1) 

 Brandon (Chitty), May 6th, 1906. G. sepsoides, West, (sociabilis, 

 Kieff.) (2) Black Gang Chine (Westwood), August, 1831 ; Camber Sand- 

 hills (Donisthorpe) ; Lymington (Morley), August 15th, 1901 ; Gul- 

 lane Links, near Edinburgh (W. Evans), August 29th, 1900; the 

 British Museum adds Deal ; near London ; Bournemouth ; Lowes- 

 toft; and another species without locality taken in 1879 (F. Smith). 

 G. ljunghii, West. : Wimbledon Common (Westwood). G. oraturius, 

 West.: Ripley Common (Westwood). G. distinguendus, Kieff. (2): 

 Kilmore (Beaumont), August 11th and 15th, 1898. G. bicolor, Curt. : 

 (1) Plumstead (Beaumont), October 21st, 1893 ; (1) Luffness Links, 

 near Edinburgh (W. Evans), August 22nd, 1896 ; (1) Fielden, Herts 

 (Morley), on genista, August 9th, 1903; [Deal (Marshall)] . G. 

 distinctus, Kieff. (3) Oxshott (Beaumont), July 30th, 1898, June 13th, 

 1900, and June 2nd, 1901 ; Perrau Porth Newquay (E. B. Nevinson). 

 G. inarshalli, Kieff.: Isle of Purbeck; Swansea (?Swanage) (Marshall), 

 {Andre, vol. ix., p. 121). Marshall's original MS. description and plate 

 of this insect appear to have been inaccurate, see Andre, ix., p. 510. 



A few further notes may be useful. As to striatus : the pilosity of the 

 second node of the thorax is badly developed in my specimen, but the 

 insect cannot be any other described species. It was found on a sandy 

 place where, no doubt, ants would be running. [I may here point out 

 that on p. 8 of this volume, subpUosus and substriatus should be sub, i.e., 

 under the heading of, pilosus, and sub, striatus. 



G. sepsoides: I compared Mr. Morley's specimen with both the 

 types of sociabilis and sepsoides, which I have had lent me. The 

 former type is now broken (in the post). The following corrections 

 appear to me necessary in the description (see p. 7 ante) : 1. 2, for 

 "tarsi" read "legs"; 1. 5, for "tarsi" read "tibiae"; 1. 10, after 

 "long" insert "again." The ninth joint of the antenna appears to 

 me distinctly longer than broad. Mr. Morley's specimen was named 

 pedestris by Mr. Marshall; I have always referred it doubtfully to 

 pilosus, Thorns., as I did Mr. Donisthorpe's specimen. Thomson is 

 not, however, likely to have made a mistake as to the pilosity of the 

 2nd thoracic node, but his description of pilosus, curiously, fits in with 

 my specimens in other respects ; anyhow, Westwood's name has 

 priority. This is the commonest British species, and it appears to be 

 spread over the whole country in suitable localities. There is a most 

 interesting note of Haliday's on what is possibly this insect, but more 

 likely the next but two, in the Ent. Mo. Mag., ii., p. 221, sub. tit. Dryinus 



