is'^s.] 2G7 



Assuming this differentiation to be correct, and I am disposed to 

 concur, it would, so far, seem tliat E. erraticus, Fab., was not an 

 inhabitant of Britain ; but in the Ent. Mo. Mag., viii, 98 (1871), Dr. 

 P. Buchanan White recorded the capture of an Eremocoris living in 

 April in small companies below stones on the bare and treeless summit of 

 Mor Shron in Aberdeenshire, far from juniper or fir-trees ; this he and 

 I deemed to be E. erraticus, and a recent examination of the specimens 

 shows that they are the true species, having the Fabrician characters 

 of legs entirely rufo-testaceous and the anterior thighs with only one 

 prominent tooth beneath. This species appears to be generally 

 distributed in Europe. Dr. Horvath has sent a Hungarian example. 



Our E. pleheius Dr. Horvath says is correct. 



The British species may be thus enumez'ated : — 



1. erraticus, Fab., et auct. 



2. fenestratus, H.-Schf , Horv. 



E. erraticus, partim, D. & S., Brit. Hem. (syn. excl.). 



3. podagricus, Fab., Doug. (syn. excl.), Horv., E. Saund. 



(syn. excl.). 

 E. erraticus, partim, D. & S., Brit. Hem, (syn. excl.), 



4. pleheius. Fall., Horv. 



Dr. Horvath wrote to me that his article on Eremocoris would 

 appear in the " Eevue d'Entomologie de M. Fauvel :" this I have not 

 seen, but the foregoing rectification is in accordance with his conclusions 

 as intimated in his letter. 



8, Beaufort Grai'dene, Lewisliam : 



31*^ March, 1883. 



THE BEITISH SPECIES OF THE GENUS PSITEYBUS, LEP., 

 = APATEUS, NEWM. 



BT EDWARD SAUXDEES, F.L.S. 



Dr. Schmiedeknecht has just published in " Apidse Europa?3e," 

 fasc. V and vi, a Monograph of the European species of Psithyrus, 

 in which he describes eight species ; of these we appear to have five 

 in this country, although hitherto we have only known four. These 

 five are rupestris, vestatis, camjjestris, BarhuteUus, and quadricoJor, the 

 last of these being identical with BarbvteUus, Smith, nee Ivirby. How 

 F. Smith came to apply Kirby's Barhutellus to quadricoJor I cannot 

 imagine, as Kirby's description certainly will not agree with it, and in 

 bis collection the males of the two species are mixed, and both 

 females are Barhutellus, Schmied. Kirby's description of the ab- 

 domen of the (J, "Abdomen triangulare sub-acuminatum, segmento 



