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where), has been lately observed by me among some beetles 

 sent for examination. 



Meligethes symphyti is corroborated by a dozen different 

 captures in various localities as occurring on Agraphis 

 nutans, and not on Symphytum officinale, by Mr. G. C. 

 Champion (Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 39). 



M. Ch. Brisout entirely agrees with me in objecting to 

 Herr Reitter's union of M. Kuiizcsi and M. difficilis as one 

 species, as the sexual characters of each are quite different ; 

 the male of the former having a wide and very deep excava- 

 tion occuj)ying the whole length of the metasternum, but 

 narrower and less deep in the anterior third ; whilst in the 

 latter the male metasternum has two rather projecting and 

 tubercular elevations. M. Brisout considers that lugubris 

 and gagathinus belong to one variable species, and so names 

 for me my two "races" of lugubris, of different size; and 

 he has identified a female of his hidentatus (the 2nd known 

 British example) from my collection. 



Our Meligethes memnonius is the morosus of Erichson, 

 according to M. Brisout, who considers the true memnonius 

 to be intermediate between this species and M. difficilis, if 

 it be not a variety of one of them (Ent. Mo. Mag., x, p. 138). 

 M. Brisout demurs to Herr Reitter's reference of M. niger, 

 Bris., to memnonius ; he considers this collocation impossible, 

 as the two insects are very dissimilar according to the de- 

 scriptions, and Herr Reitter has never seen his type of 

 M. niger. The following is an extract from Mr. G. R. 

 Waterhouse's notes, taken at the time of his comparing our 

 then known species with Erichson's types at Berlin: — "J/o- 

 " rosus and memnonius very much alike, and difficult to 

 " distinguish; morosus, however, has rather a shorter form, 

 " and the antennae are pale throughout, whilst in memnonius 

 " they are dusky at base and apex. My hnorosus,' I have 

 " little doubt, is the true memnonius of Erichson. Both 



