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■stand. " Quieta nc movcre " doubtless is an excellent rule ; but 

 " order, nature's first law," suggests one that is still more excellent. 

 Reluctantly, though without any doubt, we arrive at the conclusion 

 that the present name of this species ought to give way to that of 

 " cincta, Fab." 



This insect appears to be frequently met with in Spain and Por- 

 tugal. " Vigo " is given by M. Allard as a locality where it is not 

 uncommon. I captured specimens at Barquero, a little village on 

 the northern coast of Spain, when visiting that district with Mr. 

 Gray in his yacht the ' Miranda,' on May 1, 1856. 



3. Lithonoma Andalusiaca. 



Rambur, in Dej. Cat. (1837). 



Rosenhauer, Thieve Andalusiens (1856), p. 333, tab. 3. fig. c. 



Foudras, Hist. N. des Altisides (I860), p. 228. 



Allard, Ann. Soc. Ent. France (I860), viii. p. 45. 



L. ovata, lata, depressa, sidiparallela, punctata, nigro-cyanea ; 

 capite granulato ; thorace transverso, laevigata, ad latera, et mar- 

 gines ant. et post, fulvo-lineato ; elytris latis, subparallelis, ad 

 apicem rotundatis, fulvo-lineatis, fulvoque marginatis ; antennis 

 robustis, Jtliformibus, nigris ; pedibus robustis, nigro-cyaneis. 



Long. corp. 24 lin., lat. 1| lin. 



Ovate, broad, depressed, subparallel, thickly punctate, dark cya- 

 neous, shining. Head short, transverse, hardly produced, roughly 

 gramdated, more distinctly in front and less apparently at the base ; 

 above the base of the antennse there is a total absence of any longi- 

 tudinal depressions, which are apparent in L. cincta: the eyes are 

 small, lateral, situated at the base of the head. Thorax broadly 

 transverse, in front distinctly but not deeply emarginate ; the ante- 

 rior angles are subacute and slightly prominent; the sides are 

 rounded and broadly emarginate ; the surface is depressed, levigate, 

 thickly and deeply punctate ; at the anterior and posterior margins 

 is a flavous line (not medial, as in L. cincta, but continued, al- 

 though very finely, to the lateral angles) ; the margination also is 

 broadly fulvous. Scutellum triangular, impunetate. Elytra broad, 

 subparallel, depressed, slightly broader than the thorax, rounded at 

 the apex, covered throughout with broad, deep and closely arranged 

 punctures ; a tolerably broad longitudinal fulvous band, commencing 

 at the humeral angles, is terminated abruptly at a short distance 

 from the apex ; between this line and the margination are two very 

 faint and minute longitudinal thread-like fulvous markings ; the 

 margination also is fulvous, more broadly and distinctly as it ap- 



