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scales ; the latter are twice as long as wide, truncate at the apex, and 

 separated from each other in a lateral direction by a space equal to 

 the width of one scale. In addition to the two specimens mentioned 

 by Dr. Fowler (Col. Brit. IsL, v, p. 282), I have seen others from 

 Weymouth (J. J. Walker), ex coll. Gorham, and ex coll. Fowler. 

 This is the S. reichei of Fowler, /. c. ; the fig-ure of his insect, PI. 167, 

 fig. 10, though sufficient to show that reichi proper was not intended, 

 is not characteristic of 8. coecus. There seems no reason to doubt 

 that G. E. Waterhouse's treatment of the Pissodes ? ijygmxus of 

 Curtis (Ann. Nat. Hist., v, p. 280, 1840) as a Smicronyx was correct ; 

 and Curtis' phrase, " deep shining black, sparsely clothed with minute 

 white scaly hairs," apjjears to me to identify his insect with S. emeus, 

 Reich, so clearly that what the 8. lyycjmseiis, Curt., of British col- 

 lections may have been matters nothing. Curtis' description does not 

 apply to either of our two other species in any condition. 



8. jungerman/nise, Reich. — In form this species resembles the 

 foregoing so closely that denuded examples are only to l)e separated 

 by their equal claws. In fresh specimens the elytra are densely covered 

 with broad, subcontiguous, pale brown scales, with a sprinkling of 

 irregular patches of white ones, and each interstice has a row^ of 

 distant decmnbent hair-scales down the middle. The appressed scales 

 are not more than one and a half times as long as wide. 



*S^. reichi, Gyll.— This is easily distinguished from our other two 

 species by its larger size, and the greater bidk and width of the body 

 behind the thorax, as well as by the peculiar sculpture of the latter. 

 The character of the scaling of the elytra does not diifer appreciably 

 from that of 8.- juncjermannix, as appears, amongst others, from a very 

 perfect specimen ex coll. Capron lent me by Mr. Champion. A 

 recognisable figure of the species, from Mr. E. A. Waterhouse's 

 Folkestone specimen is given in Ent. Ann., 1873, but the artist has 

 somewhat exaggerated the width of the elytra as compared with that 

 of the thorax, and also made the latter too long in proportion to its 

 width. Var. championis is the name by which Fowler distinguished 

 this species from the 8. reichei, of Col. Brit. IsL, as appears from 

 Mr. Champion's Folkestone specimen, which is the type, or co-type, of 

 the name in question. Besides the two specimens previously mentioned, 

 Mr. Champion has lent me two others ex coll. F. Smith, and one 

 taken by himself at Caterham. 



Dr. Fowder most obligingly sent me on April 25th, 1910, all his 

 8'microtiyu', with the labels as they were standing in his collection, viz. : 

 above the label cceeus, Reich, the specimen of that species referred to 



