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while ill hrtinsvicensis the elytra are usually coppery-ri'd, with a narrow 

 green suture. I have indeed never seen a British example otherwise 

 coloured. C. didymata does not appear to 1)p British. Capt. Deville 

 has kindly sent me specimens of Loth for comparison. 



OxYPODA FEKPLEXA, Key {^hiridd, WolL'r'). — A specimen of 

 an insect previously named piuyle.va, Eey, hy Capt. Deville, has been 

 identified by Dr. Sharp as his 0. verecunda (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1871, 189). Taking the "very elongate maxillary palpi" into con- 

 sideration, it is evident that Rev's description of 0. (Bseoglena) exoleta 

 [Brevipenues, Aleochaarires, p. 285 (1874)] also refers to the same 

 insect . 



Capt. Deville has pointed out to me that Dr. Bernhauer (Verli. 

 k. k. zool.-bot. G-es. Wien, 1902, p. 20) has tabulated the two species 

 thus : — 



Thorax iiioro than one-half broaclei' than lony ; (^lytra dirty yellow ; hind body 

 with normal side-border, and short slight hairs at apex ; penultimate 

 joint of maxillary palpi normal 0. exoleta, Erichs. 



Thorax scarcely more than one-third broader than long ; elytra reddish-yellow ; 

 hind body with straight, swollen, saparats side-bordar, and long coarse 

 hairs at apex ; penultimate joint of maxillary palpi abnormally elongate... 



0. lurida, Woll. 



The two species are abundantly distinct, but the synonymy is very 

 confusing. 1 am l.)y no means sure that Wollaston's type of lurida 

 agrees with Bernhauer' s description. Key places his perplexa in the 

 sub-genus Podoxya, in which the maxillary palpi are only moderately 

 elongate, which suggests that the insect he describes is identical with 

 Bernhauer' s exoleta. If the above suggestions prove correct, another 

 name will have to be found for the insect wdth elongate palpi. 



QuEDius VARIABILIS, Heer (of Key). — Dr. Joy some time since 

 pointed out to me that the insect I had brought forward under this 

 name (Ent. Mo. Mag., xli, 197) is identical with others named by me 

 var. fageti for Mr. Kidson-Taylor. As Dr. Joy is certainly right, I 

 desire to make the correction. (2- fageti is, however, now considered 

 synonymous wdth Q. maurus, Sahib., and a good and distinct species. 

 The characters given in my table ( loc. cit.) will serve to separate the 

 species from its allies, but for " Q. variabilis, Heer," the following 

 synonymy should be substituted : Q. manruK, Sahib. = var. fageti, 

 Thoms., variabilis, Rey {nee Heer?). 



Telephorus (Ancistronycha) abdominalis. Fab. — The insect 



