NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1870. 41 



elytra very delicately transversely rugiilose), and with the 

 anterior tibiae much more widened towards the apex, which 

 is armed with (usually) only two well-defined teeth. 



38. Meligethes ovatus; Sturm ; Er., I. c, p. 198; E. C. 



Rye, /. c. 



Determined as British by M. Brisout from specimens sent 

 by Mr. Crotch and myself. 



Though associated with 31. Jlavipes, this insect is very 

 like 31. viduatus, but of a shorter ovate form, with the thorax 

 more abruptly narrowed in the apical third and the tibiae 

 broader, the armature of the anterior pair being less defined. 



39. Meligethes rotundicollis, Brisout, Z. c, p. 56; 



E. C. Rye, /. c, vol. vi, p. 257. 

 A specimen taken by myself at Mickleham has been thus 

 identified by the founder of the species. It is allied to 

 31. picipes, from which it differs in its thorax being more 

 strongly rounded at the sides, its finer punctuation, and the 

 slighter external denticulation of its anterior tibias. 



40. Meligethes lugubris, Sturm; Wat. Cat.; E. C. 



Rye, /. c, p. 283. 

 ebeninus, Crotch, Cat., nee Forst. 

 This synonymy is communicated to me by Mr. Crotch, on 

 M. Brisout's authority. 



41. Meligethes palmatus, Er., Ins. Deutsch., iii, p. 204 ; 



E. C. Rye, I. c. 



obscurusj Crotch, Cat., nee Er. 

 This synonymy is also communicated to me by Mr. Crotch 

 on M. Brisout's authority. Mr. Crotch's insects are the 

 31. distinctus of Wat. Cat., in my opinion; but they do 

 not seem to me to agree precisely with the descriptions of 

 any of those species. 



