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46. Athous uxdulatus, De Geer, Ins. iv. 155, 18. Tab. 5, 



f. 23, 26; Payk. Faun. iii. 8, 10; Schon. Syn. iii. 

 287, 108 ; Wat. Cat. Brit. Col. 1861 ; J. A. Power, 

 Zool. 8735 (1863). 

 frifasciatus, Hbst., GylL, Redt. 

 hifasciatus, Gyll., Redt. 

 A single specimen of this magnificent Elater (on the 

 authority of which the species was introduced as British) 

 was taken about three years ago by Charles Turner at Ran- 

 nock ; but it has hitherto unaccountably escaped notice in 

 the Ent. Annuals. 



Turner has however again taken it, at the same place and 

 in some numbers. He informs me it comes from the Scotch 

 pine. 



The sexes vary considerably in size and colour; the males 

 being the smallest, of a deeper black and with more distinct 

 bands ; some of the females have the elytra pale brown, 

 banded with lavender grey, with the fascia more suffused. 



47. Cis LiNEATO-CRiBRATUS, Mellie, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. 



de France, 1848, p. 336, 43, pi. 3, fig. 14 of Monog. ; 

 Thomson, Skand. Col. v. 197, 3 {Orophius); J. A. 

 Power, Zool. 8792 (1863). 



Dr. Power has determined this species from some speci- 

 mens taken by Mr. H. Montague in fungus near Loch Tay 

 in September, 1862 (in company with Octotemnus glahricu- 

 luSf I believe). Thomson states that he had no opportunity 

 of getting rightly to know the structure of the antenns and 

 tibise of this insect, which he places in the genus Orophius, 

 Redt. {Octotemnus, Mellie), wherein the antenuag should be 

 eight-jointed. Dr. Power, however, states that it is a true 

 Cis, with ten-jointed antennae. In build, size and colour it is 



