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vix visihiliter punctulato, hasi tnincato ; elytris concinne haud profunde 

 ^nmctato-striatis, interstltils parce ohsoletissimeque punctulatis ; tibiis 

 anticis linearihus. Long. 1 lin. (Anglic). 



Jifas,Jemoyibus posticis dilatatis, apice suhtus acute denticulato. 



Sahitat Algeriam. 



Somewhat similar to a very small pale specimen o£ A. calcarata, 

 from which the apical joint of its antenna? being equal in width to the 

 penultimate joint, its more slender club, more obsoletely punctured 

 thorax, of which the base is not sinuate, &c., will readily distinguish it. 

 From A. scita, which it apparently most I'esembles, it differs in the 

 nhape of the thorax, of which the sides are evenly rounded to and 

 from the middle (instead of being straight to the middle and then con- 

 tracted in front), its less deeply punctured stri», and the under angle 

 of the femoral dilatation in the ^ not being rounded off. This latter 

 character alone will suffice to distinguish it from the smallest and 

 most feebly developed duhia or ovalis. 



Taken by Mr. Eippon in Algiers. 



Anisotoma lituka, Stephens (ornata, Fairm.), var. viacuUcolUs. 



A specimen from Algiers, in Dr. Sharp's collection, exhibits such 

 extraordinary coloration, that I have given it the above name. It is 

 a very large and broad female, with the dark sutural stria? and lateral 

 streaks more deeply marked than in any Scotch example (I have taken 

 many of this species in the South, but they are always of the pale 

 form), and with wide suffused testaceous lateral margins to the thorax, 

 leaving the centre only broadly black. 



In my most highly coloured Scotch specimens, there is, at most, a 

 small testaceous portion at the hinder angles. 



The ordinary pale form of A. litura is in Dr. Sharp's collection 

 from Bigorre, and Hydnohius strigosus from Algiers ; Ci/rfiisa pauxilla 

 and CoJenis deniipes from Eeynosa (Spain), the latter also from 

 Bigorre and Albertville ; and Anisotoma paUens and Triartliron 

 Mecrkeli from Albertville. ITnusually large specimens of T. Mcerkeli 

 have been taken in the New Forest by Mr. Oliver Janson, and Mr. E. 

 Saunders and Mr. Champion have also found this rare species at 

 Woking. Anisotoma macropus, mihi, has again occurred to Mr. 

 Champion at Esher, and at Balcombe, near Tilgate Forest, by sweeping 

 in August under fir-trees ; Mr. Marsh has taken A. hrunnea flying at 

 Mickleham, in September ; and A. lunicollis, mihi, has come under my 

 notice from different quarters, — viz., one specimen detected by me in 

 Dr. Power's collection, taken many years ago near the Kibble, Lanca- 

 shire ; two old specimens in Mr. Gr. R. Waterhouse's collection ; and 

 another, taken in June last at Forest Hill, by Mr. Marsh. 



• Parkficld, PutneT : 



October, 1875. • 



