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3-dentate ; pygidiuni finely and sparingly punctured. 2 lines. 

 Universally distributed, eveu in India, N, America, &c., but 

 not common. In hot-beds. 



J5. H. l2-striafus, Schr. (1781), Mars. 586.— Elytra with 

 six dorsal striae entire; tibiae 3-dentate; pygidium almost 

 smooth. 2 lines. Europe and the Mediterranean, common. 

 H. corvinus, Germ.^ was formerly quoted by Stephens as a 

 native of this country, and its occurrence is extremely pro- 

 bable ; it has four dorsal strias entire; tibiaj 4-deutate ; pro- 

 pygidium strongly punctate ; pygidium almost smooth ; thus 

 resembling bissexstriatus, from which the absence of the ex- 

 ternal thoracic stria, and the tibiae, separate it. 



16. H. 14-striatm, Payk. (1798), Thoms. 230. — Closely 

 resembling H. 12-striatus, but with a very abbreviated trace 

 of a subhumeral stria; pygidium and propygidium more evi- 

 dently punctulated, especially on the sides ; thorax with a 

 few impressed punctures near the anterior angle. 2 lines. 

 Widely distributed. Not occurring in company with the 

 preceding. Marseul (p. 248) expresses considerable doubts 

 as to the validity of this species, and I must agree with him ; 

 I have seen some twenty or thirty examples, and have nearly 

 all shades of connexion ; the punctuation of the pygidium 

 appears to me to vary insensibly from one to the other, and 

 the stria is, in half my specimens, represented by a row of 

 punctures only. 



In the above paper " prosternum " is used for the lobe 

 which springs forward from it, and the denticulations of the 

 tibiae must be understood to apply to the anterior alone. 



G. R. Crotch. 



University Library, Cambridge. 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



235. Argynnis Lathonia at Braintree. — Yesterday, about 

 9 A.M., I took, in the above town, in the garden attached to 

 ray residence, a specimen of Argynnis Lathonia, which, ac- 

 cording to your ' British Butterflies,' is very rare. — B. Hol- 

 land ; Manor Street, Braintree, Essex, September 20, 1865. 



236. Colias Ediisa and Acherontia Atropos at Portsdown, 

 near Portsmottth. — On September 16th I saw on Portsdowa 



