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is a really distinctive (tliaracter of tins iusect. It is a rare species 

 iu this country, but I have before me a very fine series collected by 

 Mr. Bedwell near Gravesend, and many years ago it used to occur at 

 Hammersmith marshes. 



Mr. Bedwell's beautiful series varies but little, but I have iu my 

 collection a specimen of unusually small size and dark colour, with 

 slightly less elongate legs and feet, that may be a different species. It 

 was found near London fifty or sixty years ago. 



A specimen of P. frit was sent by Crotch to M. H. Brisout de 

 Barneville, and was returned by him as B. svhcavinatus. This example 

 is now in the Cambridge Museum. 



'!.— Parahaifous biiiodulvs Herbst. 



Cnrculio hinodulus Herbst, Kaf. 6, p. "247, pi. 61, fig. 15. 



Bagous hinodulus Auctt. 



This is a very distinct species. The male is remarkable by the 

 great development of the depressions on the under-surface, which 

 extend from near the middle coxae to near the hind margin of the 

 second abdominal segment. The terminal segment is also largely 

 impressed, with the impression coarsely punctiu-ed and bearing a good 

 deal of white hair. 



I have seen only one example. It is in the Crotch collection of 

 the University of Cambridge. It was sent by Crotch to M. H. Brisout 

 de Barneville at the time he was writing his monograph on Bcujoiis, and 

 bears his label " hinodidus.'" I have dissected the specimen, and find 

 that the male structures show a close alliance with those of P. frit. 



Abagous, gen. n. 



Mentum parvum. Tarsi breves, articido tertio lohato. Prostermim a7ite coxas 

 irnpressum, profunde emarrjinatum . 



This genus — of which Bayuiis /iitiileiifux is the type — is readily 

 distinguished by the structure of the feet. 



The following list represents merely my ideas as to the British 

 species, with which, however, I am l)ut imperfectly acquainted. 



l.-yl. Itittdnitus Gyll. 



This is apparently a fairly common iusect in England from Nor- 

 folk southwards. It has recently l>een proposed, to replace its well- 

 known name by that of (jlahrlrostrix Herbst, l>ut I do not think that 



