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The species is extremely similar in form to B. lucida, but is rather 

 broader, and has the autennse longer, the terminal joint being very 

 distinctly longer ; the head and thorax are more finely punctured, and 

 the elytra are very nearly without the conspicuous depressions of B. 

 lucida. Its larger size, more elongate antennie, and thorax more 

 rounded and narrowed towards the front, readily distinguish it from 

 B. lunulata (Jlavicollis, Rey). 



I have much pleasure in naming this conspicuous species in honour 

 of the talented entomologist of Lyons, to whom we owe the recent 

 parts of the "Histoire Naturelle des Coleopteres de Trance." 



Tliornhill, Dumfries : 



October, 1875. 



'Note on OrcJiestes semirufus, Gyll. — I have, on eevcral occasions during the 

 past summer, beaten from wikl cherry at Woking, examples of an Orchestes, differing 

 from semifufus in having the tarsi and club of antennae (pitchy or) black, and in 

 some examples the tibiae and femora pitchy ; and from scutellaris, besides these 

 characters, in being always smaller, of a darker colour, and with the head, thorax, and 

 rostrum black. Not one of those taken (about 30) exhibits the clear red head 

 (excepting the eyes, which are often pitchy), thorax, and limbs of 0. scutellaris. 0. 

 semirufus has been referred as a variety to scutellaris, and my specimens above 

 noticed appear to be even darker than those mentioned in Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 18. 

 M. Ch. Brisout (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1865, p. 271), in liis Monograph, refers to one 

 example only in which the knees and apex of the tibiae are rather widely darkened. I 

 have captured ordinary scutellaris also on wild cherry, but never in company witli 

 these dark insects : the former appears to be of more northern distribution. — 

 G. C. Champion, 274, Walworth Road, London, S.E. : October, 1875. 



Note on Otiorhi/nchus monticola. — The Irish specimens of an Otiorliynchns 

 recorded by me at p. 82 of this vol. as monticola, Germ., appear to me, from an 

 examination of a very long series of our ordinary northern species recently referred 

 to 0. blandus, to be only an extreme form of the latter. — Id. 



[The description of 0. blandus, Schon. (1836), reproduced by Stierlin, docs not 

 in the least accord with these Irish specimens ; it says " eJytris subtiliter vage punc- 

 tulatis, vix striatis," and the chief differential point between blandus and monticola 

 is therein stated to be that the striae of the elytra are scarcely perceptible. O. Icevi- 

 gatus, Gyll. (1813), identified by Thomson with blandtis,\\ViS the elytra " suhtilissime 

 punctaio-striata, interslitiis planis, adhuc subtilius crebre et vage punctidatis ;" and 

 this also does not at all agree with the Irish insects. Thomson makes GyUenlial's 

 IcEvigatus the typo (lie could not adopt his name' on account of the long prior and 

 different Icevigatus of Fabricius), terming the elytra " punciato-striatis, interstitiis 

 ruguloxis," and, adopting SchonhciT's name blandns for the species, sinks the latter's 

 insect as a variety, saying that the elytra have the strife conspicuous only at the base and 

 sides, " interstitiis subreticulato-strigosis." Supposing Thomson to be correct in refer- 



