30 COLEOPTERA. 



numbers to Dr. Syme and Mr. E. A. Waterbouse on the 

 shores of Loch Leven. 



21. Meloe cyaneus, Mulsant, CoL de France, Vesicants, 



p. 47 ; E. C. Rye, /. c, viii, pp. 248 and 288 ; C. G. 

 Rotberam-Websdale, ibid. 



Several specimens, found in the Isle of Man by the Rev. 

 R. P. Murray, and near Barnstaple by Mr. Websdale, have 

 been referred by me to Mulsant's insect above named, with 

 the ultimate conviction that the latter is itself (as has been 

 suggested) only a variety of proscarabcsiis, from which some 

 of the Manx specimens are much more aberrant than ]Mul- 

 sant's type, having a brightly metallic and remotely punc- 

 tured head and thorax, the latter with a broad and very 

 evident basal longitudinal channel. The Barnstaple speci- 

 mens are on the average smaller, with a semi-cupreous tinge 

 over the whole of the body. The punctuation and depres- 

 sions of the thorax seem capable of almost any amount of 

 variation. 



22. Smicronyx Reichei, (Frontisp., fig. 7) Gyll., in Schon., 



Gen. et Spec. Cure, vii, p. 314 ; E. C. Rye, /. c, ix, 



p. 11. 



Not unlike an enormous example of Tanysphyrus lemnm; 

 larger than S. jangermannicE, with a thicker and duller 

 rostrum, and much more thickly and coarsely punctured 

 thorax, and, when in good condition, densely clothed with 

 tessellated grey and brown scales. 



An abraded example was taken by Mr. Champion in 

 August, 1868, and another, in fine condition, in the early 

 summer of 1871 by Mr. E. A. Waterhouse, both near 

 Folkestone. 



