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being, however, very diiHcult to distinguish in its ease the male from 

 the female. In short, it became quite clear that the first dozen 

 captured consisted of males of C. similata and of a second closely- 

 allied species, in the case of the latter the discrimination of the sexes 

 requiring a most carefvil examination. 



This has since been abundantly confirmed, as I have foiuid lx)th 

 sexes of C. similata in various parts of the New Forest and in 

 Scotland. Here I have found it only on oak trees, but at Nethy 

 Bridge I beat it from the spruce fir. C. lamhiana, on the other hand, 

 I have not yet been able to find elsewhere than (jn the one small oak 

 tree on which Mr. Lamb originally discovered it. 



COKTICARIA FOWLERIANA, Sp. U. 



Robiista, convexa, picea, antennis pedibnsque testaceis, fortiter punctata, 

 elyti is evidentius seriatim pallido-setosis, interstitiis convexis ; pedibus brevibus, 

 tarsis quasi biarticulatis, articulo primo fortiter dilatato. Long. corp. If mm. 



Allied to C. fuscula, bvit more convex, with a longer and more coarsely 

 punctate thorax, and remarkable by the coarse sculptui-e of the elytra, their 

 convex interstices, and their more highly developed setosity. The legs are 

 stouter Avith thicker tarsi, and the eyes are more distant from the thorax as 

 they are not close to the constriction that forms the neck of the head. 



After examination of a long series of the varieties of C. fuscula, 

 I do not entertain any doubt as to the distinctness of this form. The 

 rare variety of C. fuscula found in Lapland by Sahlberg, and described 

 by him (Notis. Fauna Flora Feun. xi, 1870, p. 359) as C. latipenms, 

 apparently approaches C. fowleriana by having more convex interstices 

 on the elytra, and by the whiter and more developed setosity. In 

 other characters the two appear to diifer considerably and as Sahlberg's 

 description of the head and thorax does not agree wdth C. foivleriana, 

 I anticipate the two will prove to be distinct. 



1 have seen only one specimen of this sj^ecies, apparently a female. 

 It was found by me at Braemar in June, 1871, and is the specimen 

 alluded to by Fowler in Col. Brit. Isl., iii, p. 294, as a variety of C. 

 similata. At that time only one specimen of C. similata was known 

 to exist in our collections, and now that a large series is before me it is 

 quite clear that the Braemar insect is another species. I therefore 

 name the insect C. foivleriana in honour of the entomologist to whom 

 we are so much indebted for his work on British Coleoptera. 



Brockenhurst : 



March 20th, 1910. 



