NOllTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 197 



According to M. Victor de Motschoulski, the common long- 

 legged Blaps of this country, -which has hitherto been regarded 

 as mortisaga, is the true ohtusa; whilst the thicker species, with 

 shorter legs (also common in many localities), standing in British 

 cabinets as ohtusa, is fatalica. 



T. V. Wollaston, Esq. (to whom I am indebted for this infor- 

 mation), informs me that mortisaga is a very rare species, only 

 three specimens existing in the whole of the British Museum 

 collection, which are said to have come from Odessa. 



The only British example of mortisaga that I have seen is in 

 my own collection, and was taken in Scotland. It is cylindric 

 considerably elongate, somewhat depressed, and has the elytral 

 processes much developed. — 2\ J. B. 



Sect. 3. PSEUDOTETRAMERA, Westia. 



Stirps 1. RHYNCOPHORA, Latreille* 



Family 1. BKUCHID^, LeacJt. 



Sub-family 1. BRUCHIDES, Westw. 



J251. Bruchus, Linn. 

 Jl. B. rufimanus, Schdnh. 



Stepli. Manual, No. 2087. — Walton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., xiii., 208. 

 Imported into Newcastle, amongst a cargo of beans, from 

 Sicily.— 7^. J, B. 



Sub-family 2. ANTHRIBIDES, West. 

 252. Anthribus, Geoffr. 

 1. A. ALBiNus, Linn. 



Steph. Illust., Mand., iv., 208. — Curtis, Brit. Ent, pi. 726. 

 " Plentiful, near Newcastle." — G. Wailes, Esq. Gibside. — J/r. 

 John Hancock. 



* Under this division we have generally followed the nomenclatnre of Mr. 

 Walton, in his valuable papers in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 

 The synonymes of our native species being sufficiently elaborated by that writer, 

 it would be foreign to our object to give even a digest of what he has executed 

 so happily. 



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