174 [August, 



vein recurved at the margin ; legs yellow, sometimes slightly smirched with 

 grey, fore tarsi short and somewhat thickened, hind femora only moderately 

 stout and without a dark spot at the tip, tibial cilia weak ; abdomen usually 

 short and flat, wide at the base and pointed at the anal end, with the third, 

 fourth and fifth segments much shorter than the second and sixth, or of the 

 ordinary slender form with the segments more nearly equal ; hypopygium 

 grey, a pair of small rounded and hairy lamellae, subanal body generally con- 

 cealed, but if exposed large and in front of it a flap-like yellow ventral process 



I5 mm. paludosa, n. sp. 

 31 (33) Legs dark. 



35 (36) Arista short, not longer than the frons. Meso-pleurw with two or three 



extra long bristles. 

 $ ?. Thorax and abdomen black ; the anterior scutellar bristle smaller than the 

 posterior in both sexes, sometimes reduced in the male to a weak hair ; frons 

 rather broader tban long, under pair of supra-antennal bristles minute, upper 

 pair of moderate size, antennae full large ( $ ) small (?), palpi small and 

 dusky, with the usual bristles ; wings light grey, fringe short, costa to middle 

 of wing, 1 rather shorter than 2 + 3, the angle included at the fork acute ; 

 legs black or blackish-brown, sometimes ( $ ) yellowish-brown, hind fenu ra 

 dilated, hind tibise compressed laterally and distinctly arched on the upper 

 border, tibial cilia sparse and large ; hypopygium large and knob-like, the 

 inner parts concealed, anal protuberance long and dusky yellow ; ovipositor 

 very long and exserted If — 2 mm. spinigera, n. sp. 



36 (35) Arista of the ordinary length. Me.so-pleur;e with only one long bristle. 



$ 9 . Thorax and abdomen black ; frons about one-fourth as broad again as 

 long {$) less ( $ ), four large supra-antennal bristles, the under pair low down 

 and close to the middle line, antennae rather large, palpi dusky yellow ; wings 

 clear or lightly tinged with grey, fringe short, the veins blackish, costa to 

 middle of wing or rather beyond ( 9 ), 1 about twice as long as 2 ( $ ) one-and- 

 a-half times ( ? ). angle formed by the forking of second thick vein large (nearly 

 a right angle) ( J ) but less ( ? ) ; legs from yellowish-brown to blackish-brown, 

 hind tibise moderately stout, and of the usual form, the cilia fairly long 

 and rather numerous ; hypopygium large and grey, the large subanal body is 

 sometimes exposed, and in front of it is a small black and curved ventral process, 

 anal protuberance largo and blackish ; ovipositor of moderate size... 



If — 2 mm. eampestris, n. sp. 

 {To be continued). 



ANISOTOMA FLAJ'ICOItNIS, Ch., AN ADDITION TO TIIE BRITISH 

 LIST OF COLEOPTERA. 



BY NORMAN II. JOT, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. 



ANISOTOMA FLAYICORNIS, Cll. 

 Closely resembles A. parvula, Sahib., but differs from it in being of a broader 

 form, and in having the thorax more finely and diffusely punctured and the trans- 

 verse striation on the elytra more distinct ; the antennae are entirely testaceous, and 



