Notes on some Weevils. 



By 

 Victor Hansen. 



1. Bagoiis frit Herbst. In his excellent work on the 

 genus Bagous in „Die Käfer Europas" XXXXIV 1907, 

 68 Schilsky mentions as a new character for this species, 

 that the last dorsal segment has a semicircular excision 

 in the middle of the hind margin. It is however only the 

 female, which possesses this character, while in the male 

 the segment is quite simple and not excised. The character 

 therefore is more valuable in separating the two sexes, 

 than in separating the species from its allies. 



2. Bagous brevis Gyll. In the same work Schilsky 

 mentions B. brevis Gyll. among the species, that were 

 unknown to him. In his „Systematisches Verzeichnis der 

 Käfer Deutschlands und Deutsch-Oesterreichs" 1909 p. 172 

 B. brevis Gyll. is however stated as a synonym to 

 B. limosiis Gyll. and so does Reitter too in „Fauna 

 Germanica" V, p. 210. B. brevis Gyll. is however a good 

 species, that seems indeed not to be much known. 

 It is not at all similar to B. limosiis Gyll., from which it 

 may be very easily separated by narrower elytra, much 

 finer punctuation in their striæ, and shorter tarsi, but it 

 is allied to B. subcarinatus Gyll. {claudicans Boh.) and 

 B. frit Herbst on account of the short second and third 

 joints of tarsi. It may however be easily known from 

 the allied species, by having the thorax broadest before 

 middle (so as to appear often feebly cordate) and furnis- 

 hed with a deep and broad central furrow which is not 



