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medio ohsolete carinulato ; elytris antice prothorace angustiorihus, himeris acute 

 angulatim exstantibus, ohsolete punctato-striatis, minute sed vix dense granulatis, 

 interstitiis alterms obsolete obtuse elevatis ; antennis tarsisque rufo-piceis. 



Long. corp. lin. vix 4. 

 Habitat editiores montium " Atlas," in ascensu Djebel-Tezah (inter 9,000 et 

 11,000 s. m.) a clariss. Doct. J. D. Hooker repertum ; necnon in honorem captoris 

 amicdb mente a Dam. Blackmore dicatum. 



Well distinguished amongst the Sopatra by its rather largely 

 developed and equally-rounded prothorax (which, together with the 

 head, is closely and coarsely subpunctate-granulate), by its nearly 

 bald surface, and by its elytra (which are a little narrower anteriorly 

 than the prothorax, and have their humeral angles acute and prominent) 

 being less densely sprinkled with much smaller granules, and with 

 their alternate interstices obtusely and obsoletely raised. I have had 

 much pleasure in retaining for it the name proposed by Mr. Blackmore, 

 who is desirous to place on record the obligations of entomologists to 

 Dr. Hooker for the interesting Coleoptera brought by him from the 

 hitherto unexplored regions of the Atlas. T. Y. "W, 



ON THE AREANGEMENT OF THE BRITISH ANTEOMYIIDJE. 



BY E. H. MEADE. 



(concluded from page 203.) 



Mtd^a. — I have placed in this genus a number of species mostly 



of considerable size and oval form, which differ from those in the 



genus Syetodesia by having naked eyes, and from those in Spilogaster 



by having unspotted bodies. Macquart placed them in the second 



division of his genus Aricia ; and Schiner and Eondani have included 



them in Spilogaster; they appear, however, to form a more natural 



group than many others that have been raised to the rank of genera. 



I have adopted the name of Mi/dcea, as it had been applied by Desvoidy 



to 3L pagana and to one or two others of the leading species in the 



genus. 



In this and the two preceding genera two thoracic bristles are 

 placed in front of the transverse suture, in a line with four behind it, 

 in all the British species I have examined, with the exception of Sy- 

 etodesia Iceta, which has only three behind the suture. 



SpiLOaASTER. — This genus, as its name implies, is characterised 

 by the species having tlic body spotted ; four, or sometimes six, dis- 

 tinct and often triangular spots being arranged in pairs (one on each 

 side of the median line) on the dorsum of the second, third, and some- 



