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54. DoLiCHOsoMA PROTENSA, Gene, Ins. Sard., i, p. 19, 



t. 1, f. 10 (^Dasytes)', Kiister, Kaf. Eur., xxxi, p. 9; 



Redt., Faun. Austr., Ed. 2, p. 546 (PsUothrix); G. 



R. Crotch, Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 4 Apr., 1870; 



Ent. Mo. Mag., vi, p. 286. 

 Mr. Crotch has exhibited this insect, taken some years 

 ago in the Isle of Wight, and agreeing entirely with examples 

 from Carthagena. This insect, originally described from 

 Sardinia, is at its largest about the size of the smallest D. 

 nohilis, bright green or blue in colour, shining, with scattered, 

 long, erect hairs, thickly punctured, the punctures of the 

 head and thorax flat at the bottom, which is again punctured 

 in the middle. 



55. Meloe decorus, Brandt und Ratz., Mediz. Zool., ii, 



p. Ill, note; B. und Erichson, Mon. Gen. Meloes, 

 p. 137, 22, t. 8, 6-7; Redt., Fauna Austr., ed. 2, 

 p. 650; W. R. McNab, Ent. Monthly Mag., vol. 

 vii, p. 149. 

 Dr. McNab records a single example of a Meloe taken in 

 October last by himself near Cirencester, which is apparently 

 to be referred to M. decorus. It is stated to come nearest to 

 M. rugoms, and to be small (4 or 5 lines long), of a very 

 dark blackish-blue colour, with very transverse thorax, 

 "which has three longitudinal groves, a large head and fili- 

 form antennae. 



M. decorus appears to be recorded only from Hungary, 

 and M. j)ygm(Bus^ Redt., from France and Germany (Redten- 

 bacher states that it occurs raiely in mountainous districts), 

 the latter being considered specifically identical with it by 

 Gemminger and v. Harold. 



56. Trachyphlceus laticollis, Schon., Gen. et Spec. 

 Cure, vii, p. 118; Seidlitz, Die Otior. sensu str., 



