1875.] 149 



NOTES OX ANISOTOMIDM, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW 



SPECIES (feom SCOTLAND, SIBERIA, and ALGIERS) .—No. 2. 



icf. Ent. Mo. Mag., x, pp. 131—136.] 



BY E. C. EYE, F.Z.S. 



A:?rrsoTOMA oblonga, ?, Erictson, Ins. DeutscliL, iii, p. 53, note; 



E. C. Eye, Ent. Mo. Mag., vii, p. ISO ; id. Ent. Annual, 1872, 



p. G5. 



Since my record of tlie two British examples above quoted (one 

 of which was returned to me by Dr. Kraatz as probably this species), 

 I have seen a third specimen, taken in the Manchester district. These 

 three arc, as was Erichson's insect, of the female sex; they agree 

 perfectly with each other, and with Erichson's description, with the 

 additional character that the larger punctures on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 

 and 7th interstices of the elytra are, compai*ed with A. cinnamomea, 

 much coax'ser and more numerous. I have recently examined a fourth 

 specimen, taken at Earnham, Surrey, in September last, by Mr. G. C. 

 Champion, which is of the male sex, and is in my opinion undoubtedly 

 also to be referred to A. ohJonga, of which the ^ has not yet been 

 described. This individual, like the three ? examined, differs from 

 cinnamomea in its smaller size, more elliptical outline, and shorter 

 antenna;, of which the club is lighter; in its thorax having less strongly 

 rounded sides, with more obsolete front- and less obtuse hind-angles ; 

 and shorter and proportionally broader elytra, with interstitial punc- 

 tures as above noted. Erichson's suggestion that the ^ may be still 

 more easily separable than the $ from cinnamomea is correct. I add 

 the male characters : — 



Mas, tarsis aniicis mcdiisque leviter dilatatis ; femorihus posticis 

 apiccm versus furtitcr dilatatis, a j)ic.e suhfusj^rq/'unde lateque emarginato 

 (angulis ohtusis, nee denticulatis) ; tihils j)osticis pauIo elongatis incur- 

 vafisque, haud incrassatis. 



Compared with ^ cinnamomea, the middle tibia? are not abru[)tly 

 dilated and incurved in the lower half, but merely a trifle stouter 

 than in the ? ; the hind femora are more dilated towards the apex, but 

 the angles of the apical emargination on the lower side are not only 

 not (lent iriiliitcd, liiit dir^tiiictly rouii(h'(l (iff, Dure being no it)otli of 

 any kind to the femur, the lower edge of which is simply irregular in 

 outline ; and the hind tibia; are less elongate, and less thickened and 

 incurvate towards the apex. Erichson says that the middle tibiae of 

 cinnamomea have a sharp tooth on the inner side near the base, but I 

 find no such tooth in my largest and most highly developed example of 

 that species ; he probably mistook the toothed and projecting apex of 



