NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IX 1871. 85 



Sd. Magdalinus Heydeni, Desbrochers des Loges, Mon. 

 des Magdal. d'Eur. (L'Abeille, vii), 21 ; D. Sharp, 

 Scottish Naturalist, i, 40 ; Cat. Brit. Col., 1871; Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., viii, 84. 



Dr. Sharp, in expressing some doubt as to the true 31. 

 dwplicatuSj Germ., having as yet been taken in this country, 

 notes that M. des Loges has stated that he possesses a speci- 

 men from England of his recently described 31. Heydeni, 

 which has also occurred near Frankfort-o.-M. in July, on 

 birch (its larva attacking the wood and bark of young pines), 

 in Sweden, and Switzerland. No differential diagnostic 

 characters for it are given by M. des Loges, who places it 

 at some little distance from duplicatus, from which its more 

 ovate shape, darker colour (black, with obscurely blue elytra ; 

 sometimes all black), smooth head, more robust rostrum, 

 sub-quadrate, coarsely punctured thorax, and wider elytral 

 stria?, will serve to distinguish it. 



86. Apiox axxulipes, Wencker, Monogr. des Apionides, 

 37 ("L'Abeille," i, 145); E. C. Rye, /. c, viii, 

 159. 



Two ? specimens of this insect were taken by Mr. Cham> 

 pion and myself at Mickleham, in October last. They differ 

 from the same sex of their close 2.\\y , flavimamim , GylL, in 

 their entirely black and very much stouter legs and wider 

 tarsi, brilliant and very finely punctulated rosti'um, rather 

 shorter prothorax, of which the punctuation is not so close, 

 and the less dull interstices of their elytra. 



The $ appears to have the antennae testaceous, except 

 the club, all the tibiag marked with testaceous before the 

 base, and the femora, especially the anterior, exceedingly 

 robust. 



