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A. SEJUNGENDUS, Kbm. 



Mr. E. A. Butler has found in salt-marshes at Yarmouth, Isle of 

 Wight, an Athysanus yerv similar in all other respects to A. obsoletus, 

 but differing in the longer and more pointed crown ; the latter being 

 in the female quite, and in the male very nearly, as long as the 

 pronotum. The infraocellar line, which is usually present, is fine and 

 biarcuate, and it is immediately followed by the black transverse lines 

 of the frons ; in obsoletus both the infraocellar line and the upper- 

 most dark line proper to the transverse series are obsolescent or 

 wanting ; the sculpture of the crown, especially in front, appears 

 more distinct than is usual in obsoletus. 



Kirschbaum gave the name sejunyendus to an Athysanus closely 

 resembling obsoletus, but differing from that species in the greater 

 length of the crown in proportion to the pronotum, and I therefore 

 adopt his name. Puton and Oshanin both put sejunyendus as a 

 variety of lincolatus, Brulle (obscurellux, Kbm.), but I fail to see in 

 Kirschbaum's description any justification for that course. 



Deltocepualus formosus, Boh., forma steini, Fieb. 



This handsome species may be readily distinguished by the strong 

 black-and-white marking of the elytra, and the colour- pattern of the 

 face. Surface of the crown feebly depressed, shining for about 

 two-thirds of its length from the base, thence to its finely carinate 

 front edge slightly raised, dull and finely rugose ; bone-white, an 

 oblong spot on each side next the front edge, and two large irregular 

 roundish spots on the disc, black. Frons above with two curved 

 black transverse lines separated by a pale one. Face below the eyes 

 black, each cheek with a broad white transverse band, apex of the 

 frons more or less pale. At the upper edge of the frons a tract, 

 linear in the middle and widening out as it approaches each eye, is 

 transversely rugose (lacunose) ; the remainder of the surface is very 

 closely punctured (shagreened). Pronotum bone-white, with two spots 

 next the front edge, and a broad, irregular, transverse band composed of 

 four confluent spots, black. The British specimens which I have seen 

 belong to the form steini, Fieb., characterized by the black or 

 blackish, dilated and confluent spots on the crown and pronotum, as 

 opposed to the fulvous markings of the same parts in the typical form. 



Taken at Brandon, Suffolk, by Mr. C. Morley in August, 100(5. 



Matsumura (Termes. Fuzetek, xxv, p. 389) transfers D. formosus 



with phraymitis, Boh., and rofundieeps, Lethierry, to his new genus 



Paralimnus. 



{To be continued). 



