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PHTLHYDBUS HALOPHILUS, Bedel : 



SUPPLEMENTAKY AND COEEECTIVE NOTE. 



BY E. A. NEWBERT. 



Since bringing forward the above species in the April number, I 

 have seen specimens from Deal. I find that the character given in my 

 table to separate P. Jialophilus, Bedel, from P. bicolor, Fab., depending 

 on the form of the transverse furrow on the head, is of no value, since 

 it is not constant, the furrow being often as angular as in bicol>r. Nor 

 is the character of the alutation at the base of the head of the 

 absolute value I ascribed to it, as it is present in bicolor behind the 

 eyes when the head is protruded, but is much less extensive than in 

 halophilus. 



Bedel (Faune Seine, I, 310) separates the two species thus : — 

 Head testacecms, often with a small dark spot in middle ...bicolor, Fab. 

 Head black at least np to anterior margin of eyes ..Jialophilus, Bedel. 



Ganglbauer (Kafer von Mitteleuropa, IV, 247) treats halophilus 

 as a synonym of bicolor, but states that it differs in its darker upper- 

 side ; the forehead more extensively black, or entirely so as far as the 

 clypeal suture ; the thorax usually with the disc extensively dark ; the 

 elytra reddish-brown or brown, lighter at the sides ; femora black with 

 reddish apex ; tibia} brown-red, often blackish at base ; tarsi rust-red. 

 He adds that it does not appear to him to differ specifically from bicolor. 



Emitter (Fauna Grerni., II, 363) gives halophilus as one of the 

 numerous synonyms of bicolor, giving no separating characters. 



With the exception of two evidently immature examples 

 Deal which are entirely testaceous, all the specimens of halophih 

 I have seen are at once distinguished from bicolor by the shining 

 head, with sharply defined triangular yellow spots in front of ey 

 think Capt. Deville is justified in considering it a good species. 



13, Oppidans Eoad, N.W. : 



May 11th, 1914. 



ON THE VAEIATION IN BEITAIN OF COCC1NELLA 

 HIEBOGLYPHICA, L., WITH SOME COLLATEEAL MATTEE. 



BY JAMES EDWARDS, P.E.S. 



From a consideration of the various kinds of elytral pattern now 

 to be found in C. hieroglyphica, I conclude that at some period of its 

 existence the species had red elytra with a scutellar spot, shaped like 

 an inverted spear-head, and five others, namely : a linear one from the 



