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the suture being, moreover, slightly flexuous about its upper 

 third. 



Dr. Kraatz has returned this specimen to me as a good 

 species, certainly distinct from A. hadia. 



33. Meligethes fulvipes, Brisout, Gren. Cat. et Mat., 



1863, p. 49 ; E. C. Rye, I. c, vol. vi, p. 257. 



" 6, spec, nov, V Wat. Cat. ; E. C. Rye, /. c, vol. iii, 

 p. 232. 

 Identified by M. Brisout himself from specimens sent by 

 me to him. British specimens named coracinus by that 

 authority for Mr. Crotch, and given to me by the latter 

 gentleman, are, in my opinion, undistinguishable from this 

 insect. The true coracinus^ Sturm, Er., should have the 

 punctuation rather finer, the legs rather darker, and the 

 antennas decidedly darker, with the club almost black and 

 the tibiae broader. These points of difference are from a 

 comparison of the Southend insect with Erichson's types of 

 cor acinus. 



34. Meligethes brunnicornis, Sturm ; Er., Ins. 



Deutschl., iii, p. 184 ; E. C. Rye, I. c, vol. vi, 

 p. 282. 



ochropuSf Bold, I. c, vol. iii, p. 47, nee Sturm. 

 Corroborated for Mr. Crotch and myself by M. Brisout, 

 This species is apparently widely distributed and not un- 

 common (the Rev. H. S. Gorham records it from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Maidstone, as probably occurring on honey- 

 suckle), and may be known from its close ally, M. difficiliSf 

 by the closer punctuation of its elytra and its lighter-coloured 

 antennae and legs. 



Mr. Bold's Northumbrian ochropus must be referred to 

 M. brunnicornis, as I have satisfied myself by examination ; 



