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Note on a second British species of Liosomus. — I have had in my collection for 

 a long time, but have accidently hitherto neglected to examine and record, a single 

 example of a species very distinct from our common ovatidus, not taken by myself, 

 but given to me as a variety of that insect, and for which I cannot publish the pre- 

 cise locality, as I had no note of it with the specimen. It is, from description, 

 evidently the Liosomus ohlongulus of Boheman, in Schonherr's Gren. et Spec. Cure. vi. 

 (Suppl.), p. 316 ; but I have had no opportunity of comparing it with any type of 

 that species, as the only supposed exponent of it to which I have access is that in the 

 general collection of the British Museum (an-anged by M. Jekel), and wliich is 

 distinctly only ovatuliis. Compared with typical ovatulus, my insect (an immature 

 (?) is rather smaller, very decidedly longer and narrower, with a longer and more 

 coarsely and deeply punctured rostrum, which is not quite so stout or so curved 

 downwards, longer antennae (the scape being especially long), straighter sides to the 

 thorax, and un-toothed femora. Beneath, it is rather more strongly and remotely 

 punctm-ed, and the ( J ) metasternal depression is wider and better defined. 



As regards ovatulus, I think the not imcommon lighter coloured race deserves at 

 least some recognition, and therefore propose the name collaris for it, as it seems by 

 no means improbable that specific rank may eventually be attributed to it. As far 

 as my experience goes, I find this race to be smaller than the type, and to have 

 fuscous or rufo-testaceous legs with darker tips to the femora, the legs themselves 

 being rather longer and of more feeble build (the femoral tooth being also not S' 

 much developed), rather longer antennse, and very often a clear red thorax, of whicli 

 the punctuation is apparently always not quite so close. Colouration does not seem 

 to be the residt of immaturity in this form, which my friend Mr. John Scott tells 

 me he used to find in moss at Renfrew, where it was the commoner of the two. 

 I do not happen to have taken any individuals of the ordinary larger and deep black 

 form varying at all in size ; but I am indebted to that indefatigable obseiTer, Mr. H. 

 Moncreaff, for one rather smaller than the smallest of my rufescent individuals {i. e., 

 about half the ordinary size of the black race), and which was taken, with others 

 like it, by him out of moss, in a very restricted locality, unaccompanied by any large 

 specimens, near Portsdown Hill. The black common form has never occurred to me 

 in moss ; but always in or about wet debris at the water's edge. As regards pmic- 

 tuation, I find that the males often have the thorax less closely punctm-ed than the 

 females ; some of the latter sex also having the thoracic punctuation much closer 

 than others. Both sexes have the femora distinctly denticulated beneath ; Boheman's 

 doubt as to the correctness of Clairville's reference of femoral teeth to the ? and 

 none to the ^ being well founded : but certain lately described species are stated to 

 present sexual differences in this respect. I observe that in ordinary black ovatulus 

 the protuberance above the middle of the inner side of the front tibiae is more 

 evident in the <J than in the $ . This protuberance is very slightly indicated in my 

 individuals of the race collaris ; and it is wholly absent in my ^ ohlongulus, of which 

 the anterior tibiae are slightly but evenly curved inwards for their whole length 

 until quite close to the inner apex. — E. C. Eye, 10, Lower Park Field, Putney, S.W. : 

 Fehruary, 1873. 



Note on a species of Bagous neio to Britain. — I am indebted to Mr. Champion 

 for a Bagotis (of which some half-dozen specimens were, I believe, given to him by 



