NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1873. 77 



Avards on the outer side, almost (if not quite) to the apex, 

 leaving only a small pale spot on each elytron at the apex 

 next the suture (Frontispiece, fig. 7a; elytra of Z>. signia). 

 Its differences from the allied Canarian D. elUptipeiinis, 

 Woll., and fromZ). nigriventris^ Thoms. {fasciatus, Dawson), 

 with which ohlitus, Boield., is synonymous, are pointed out 

 by me, /. c, and need not be recapitulated here. 



3. Cymindis homagrica (axillaris, oUm). 



var. lineata, Dejean, Spec. gen. des Cols. &c., i (1825), 

 p. 207; Fairmaire et Lab., Faune Ent. Fran^., 

 Col., i, p. 31; Schaum, Naturg. d. Ins. DeutscliL, 

 i, p. 298, note; E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., x, 

 p. 83. 

 ? lineata, Schonherr, Syn. Ins. i (1806), Chaudoir. 

 ? lineola, D\\^ou\\ fa sciipennis, Kiister. 

 ? ? angularis & macularis, Stephens. 

 I have observed a specimen (from Box Hill) amoug my 

 own series of ordinary facies, agreeing with one form of 

 this interesting variety in having a narrow lougitudinal 

 isolated yellowish streak in the apical third of the elytra, not 

 quite reaching the apex, and running obliquely across the 

 3rd and 4th interstices. In the most fully coloured examples, 

 this streak starts from the humeral spot and runs obliquely 

 to the apex. 



C lineata is hitherto recorded from Lyons and Dordogne, 

 in the South of France, associated with the type (as Avas 

 my example); and (if the synonyms be correct) from Spain 

 and South Russia. 



A further colour variety (not noticed in the ordinary text- 

 books) exists in some of my otherwise ordinary specimens, 

 which have the suture more or less yellowish. 



