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Kuwert mentions a var. costatus of E. auhilns, saying that it is so 

 slight as scarcely to be a var. ; and G-anglbauer treats the name as a 

 mere synonym of tmbilus. Kiiwert considered E. meridionals Motsch. 

 to be the same as costatus, but Ganglbauer treats it in a different way, 

 making it a slight variety. Motschoiilsky's remark about his supposed 

 species can scarcely give the name validity, all he says is '' Empleurus 

 meridionalis, Parreyss, ressemble entierement a notre Emp. nuhilus, 

 mais ses elytres sont 2)lus allongees et un pen plus etroites. II habite 

 les parties meridionales de la Russie, la Turquie et la Grece." This 

 remark does not lead me to infer that it may have reference to 

 E. hispanictis. I cannot trace any other reference to " meridionalis 

 Parreyss " in Entomological literature, and as G-anglbauer merely 

 translates the four vi^ords of Motschoulsky, and as I have no knowledge 

 of nnbilus in South-eastern Europe, I can do nothing more to elucidate 

 the matter. 



{To be continued.) 



NOTES ON MELANDBYIDAE. 

 BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



The following notes on synonymy, geographical distribution, &c., 

 were made during a recent stu.dy of the fine collection of Melandnjidae 

 in the British Museum. I hope to describe some of the u.nnamed 

 forms later on. The family is extremely well represented in Japan 

 and New Zealand ; and it may be noted here that the group Scraptiides, 

 species of which have been found mixed with Anaspides in every 

 collection I have examined, is of world-wide distribution. There are 

 several undetermined Scraptiae from New Zealand in the Museum ; 

 Scraptogetus Broun (1893), however, must be referred to the 

 Anthicidae. 



EusTROPHUS Latr. 



Seidlitz, in 1898, separated from this genus the Japanese E. ma- 

 crophthaimus Keitt, under the name Synstroplius, and described various 

 allied forms from South Africa and Brazil under the name Eiiftrophinus. 

 The type of the latter is E. axillaris Seidl., from Natal, of wdiich there 

 are many specimens in the Museum. 



EusTROPHOPsis Champ. 



Various Tropical American species of this genus have been added 

 since it was characterized in 1889. The type is Orchesia 15-maculata 



