84 Mr. Babington on Dromius. 



dark, leaving, therefore, two pale patches at the end of the 

 elytra ; antenna and legs pale ; abdomen dusky beneath. 



D. 7iotatus of Stephens does not appear deserving of distinction 

 as a species ; "its chief diiferences consist in its superior size and 

 deeper colour." Gyllenhal in his Appendix has described an insect, 

 under the name of L.fasciata, which he appears to think different 

 from that to which the same name is given in his vol. ii. p. 189, and 

 which latter he now calls L. 4-notata. This last may probably be 

 referred to D. notatus, Steph., as I can only find that it differs from 

 L.fasciata, Gyll., in its darker colour. 



Taken at Southend, in Devonshire, and at Berwick-upon-Tweed. 



6. D. bifasciatus. Perroud. 



" Capite nigro ; thorace quadrato, rufo ; elytris substriatis, fus- 

 cis, maculis duabus magnis, altera humerali, altera postica lu- 

 nata ; antennis pedibusque pallidis ; subtus pice us. 



"Long, l-h^ : lat. -^ lin." Dej. 



D. bifasciatus. Dej. Spec. Col. i. 237. ; Iconogr. t. 11./. 8. — not 

 of Steph. Nomenclature, ed. 1 or 2. 



Much resembles D. 4-signatus, but is a good deal less ; the band 

 on the elytra is dentate in the middle both anteriorly and pos- 

 teriorly ; it is a little narrower and more straight, and is dilated 

 both ways on the outer margin, so as anteriorly almost to join 

 the triangular patch at the base, and posteriorly along the outer 

 margin until it joins the extremity of the dark suture, so as to 

 form one spot upon each elytron ; the breast and abdomen be- 

 neath dark brown, almost black ; legs and antenna pale. — De- 

 jean. 



Found in France ; but not yet, as far as I can learn, in England, 

 Mr. Stephens's specimens being D. bipennifer. 



7. D. quadrisignatus. Dej. Plate X. Fig. 2. 



Pallidus ; capite nigro ; thorace quadrato, rufo ; elytris basi, su- 

 tura, fasciaque postica fuscis, angulis humeralibus prominen- 

 tibus ; subtus piceus. 



Long. 2, lat. 4 lin- 



D. 4-signatus. Dej. Spec. Col. i. 236.; Iconogr. t. 11./. 7. Ba- 

 bington in Loud. Mag. Nat. Hist. v. 328. Steph. Nom. ed. 2. 

 col. 1. ; Illust. (M.) V. 367. Aud. et Brulle, Hist. Ins. iv. 190. 



D. sigma. Steph. Nom. ed. 1. p. 1.; but not of his Illustrations, 

 nor of Curtis' s Guide and Brit. Entom. 



