424 PROF. F. J. BELL ON THE TEMNOPLEURlDiE. [JuilG 1, 



1. Temnopleurus TOREUMATICUS. 



This species is so well known that there is no need to delay over it. 

 2. Temnopleurus hardwickii. 



With regard to the heis^ht, it would seem that it is not so much 

 that changes occur in it during growth, as tliat there are considerable 

 variations in it, with a tendency to a high form (63 per cent.) and a 

 low form (47'7 per cent.). 



3. Temnopleurus reynaudi. 



As I have already pointed out, I believe that in the latest Re- 

 vision two distinct sf ecies have been united under this head. 

 Mr. Percy Sladen has given expression to a doubt on the subject' ; and 

 he informs me that the ty|)e of Dr. Gray's T. (jranulosus struck him 

 as being " a good species " when, some time ago, he had the oppor- 

 tunity of examining it. T. reevesii of Gray does, however, seem to 

 be synonymous with the T. reijimiidi of Agassiz. 



When the types of the two species are compared, we find that in 

 T. (/runuh.ms the abactinal area is of modiTate size and there is no 

 specially large plate in the anal area ; the connecting ridge of the 

 auricles'' is lower tlian in T. reevesii; the miliary tulierdes are very 

 numerously develo|)ed and surround tiie primary tuljcrcles; sutural 

 furrows, quite distinct from the j)its of T. reevesii, occuj>y the middle 



• J. L. 8. xiv. p. 437. 



■•' I feel inclined to attacli a little more imjiorfancc to tliiscliaracter tlien does 

 Prof. Agassiz, wlio say.s of it that it is bigli, when he ia defining the genus, and 

 very low, when deliuing T. hardwickii (p. 401). 

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