NEW BRITISH SPECIES NOTICED IN 1860. 75 



30, Bagous nodulosus, Schoenli. ; E. C. Rye, Zool. 7266 



(1860). 

 Bagous nodulosus? Schoenh. Gen. et Spec. Cure. iii. 

 538, 3 (1836). 



At the September Meeting of the Entomological Society 

 " Mr. Rye exhibited a Bagous apparently distinct from the 

 recorded British species, taken at Hammersmith." Vide 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. 3 Sept. 1860, Zool. 7'22'2 (1860). This is 

 probably the insect he now refers to the Bagous Jiodulosus 

 of Schoenherr. 



The Bagous nodulosus of Schoenherr is one of the largest 

 of the known European species, being 2| lines in length. 



Mr. Rye states that B. hinodulus has the elytra with the 

 interstices " merely punctured" and that it has " on each 

 elytron four knobs" ; — now in the true B. hinodulus the in- 

 terstices of the elytra are not " merely puncturerl," they are 

 very thickly faintly coriaceous, " creher7-iute subtilissime coria- 

 ceis;" nor has it "four knobs" on each elytron, but only two, 

 exclusive of the humeral callus, the second interstice bearing 

 an acute tubercle a little behind the middle, the fourth a si- 

 milar tubercle close to the apex. He likewise states that in 

 B. nodulosus each elytron has " only two" knobs, — but in 

 the veritable B. nodulosus the fourth interstice alone ter- 

 minates far within the apex in an elevated tubercle, " quarto 

 a sutura longe intra apice/n in callum elevatum terminante." 



31. Hylastes cunicularius (Knoch), Eric. ; E. W. Jan- 



son, Proc. Ent. Soc. 5 Nov. 1860. 



Hylastes cunicularius, Eric. Archiv. f. Naturgesch. ii. 



49, 3 (1836) ; Ratzeb. Forst. Ins. i. 180, 3, T. 7, f. 7 



(1837). 



Although this species bears on a cursory inspection a very 



close resemblance to S. ater, an attentive examination will 



afford the followins; constant distinctions : its form is more 



