250 I necembcr, 



the troclianter for this. The middle trochanters are not produced or 

 spincd iu the 5 ohlonr/a now being described ; and its hind trochanter^* 

 are, compared with cinnamomea of equal size, much less projecting 

 and sharp. 



Th(! entire absence of any apical angular tooth in the hind femora 

 at once distinguishes this species fi-om A. rjr'andis, ^ . 



Apart from other points, there can here be no question of the 

 species being founded on a minor degree of development, as one 

 character of A. ohlonr/a, viz., the dilatation of the hind femora, is 

 actually in excess of the same structure in even larger cinnamomea. 



Anisotoma cueta, Eairmaire, Taune Ent. Fran9., Col., i, p. 315. 



This fine species must be added to the British list. I have ex- 

 amined two specimens (which have been corroborated by M. Ch, 

 Brisout), one, a well-developed ^, from Dr. J. A. Power's collection, 

 taken by the Rev. J. Landy Brown, of Norwich (I presume, near 

 that city), and the other by Mr. Champion at Esher, in September, 

 1873. The species was originally described from a single ^ example, 

 taken near Paris ; but M. Brisout informs me that it is very common 

 in winter on the sandy coasts of Normandy, and that he has also found 

 it in sandy woods near Paris. Evening sweeping at Deal will probably, 

 therefore, produce more British specimens. It is in the same section 

 as A. dubia, equalling the largest examples of that species in size 

 (If lin.), from which it may be distinguished by its rather longer build, 

 the much stronger punctuation of its thorax, the sides of which are 

 more contracted behind, the finer and closer punctuation of the striro 

 of its elytra, and by the apical joint of its antenna? being distinctly 

 not so wide as the penultimate joint. The (J characters are much as 

 in diihict, except that the hind tibiae are not so elongated and are 

 not biai'ciiate. Fairmaire specifics the very fine punctuation of the 

 interstices of the elytra as a diagnostic character, but there appears no 

 difference between curta and dubia in this respect. 



Anisotoma clavicornis, sp. n. 



OvaJis, convexa,fern(ginco-tcstacea, iliornce minus crehre jyunctulato, 

 hasi truncaio ; eli/tris sat t/rosse hand profunde j^ii'ndato-sfriatis, inter- 

 stitiis evidenter punctulatis, jyunctis nonnullis majoribus qxioq^iie inipressis, 

 post ice sat ahrupte contract is; tibiis anticis apicem versiis modice dilatatis, 

 hand linearibus ; antennis brevibus, thoracis medium hand superaniibus, 

 articulo 3" qnam 1'^ paulo longiori, 4" — G" gradatim latiorihus, transversis, 

 clava concolori, gradatim latiori, articulis 2 penultimis vaJdc transversis, 

 ultimo dilutiori, magno, pr<Ecedcnti latitudine cequali, gJoboso-acuminato. 



Habitat Scotiam. _ Long. 1\ lin. (Anglic). 



iWis hitct. 



