Gi Major F. J. Sidney Parry on 



[^With regard to S. Spinolce, originally described in Gay's 

 Hist. Chili, Gemminger and Von Harold are correct in 

 assuming it to be distinct ; it very closely resembles the 

 var. minor of (S./fMtora/ts, Guerin, to which species (for 

 want of a knowledge of other specimens than the one in 

 my own collection, which is somewhat mutilated) I had 

 in ray former Catalogue assigned it ; but I have recently 

 seen other specimens, in the collections of the Jardin des 

 Plantes and of Count Mniszech, received from Mons. 

 Solier, and I agree that the species is distinct. 



Lissotes curvicomis, Boisd. 



As Gemminger and Von Harold have erroneously 

 placed L. curvicoriiisus a synonym of L. cancroidcs, Fabr., 

 it may be advisable to offer the following observations in 

 reference to the two insects, more especially as in many 

 collections they are noted as being identical ; indeed it 

 was not until recently, upon obtaining a knowledge of 

 the type specimens, that my own doubts on the subject 

 have been removed. 



Dorcas curvicomis was recorded in Count Dej can's 

 Catalogue, but whether identical with the insect de- 

 scribed by Boisduval (Voy. de TAstrol. p. 235) I am 

 not in a position to affirm. Dr. Burmeister (Handb. v. 

 402) refers curvicomis, Dej., to jEgus ohtusatus, Westw., 

 but this is evidently incorrect. Having recently examined 

 the type specimen of L. curvicomis in the Museum at the 

 Jardin des Plantes, which was received from Dr. Bois- 

 duval, I feel satisfied of its being perfectly distinct from 

 any of the allied species, L. canrroides, Fab., L. tuhercu- 

 tus, Westw., and L. ohtusatus, Westw., with one or other 

 of which it appears to have been frequently confounded ; 

 indeed. Prof. Westwood has recently received from Dr. 

 Howitt of Melbourne, specimens both S and $ of L. 

 curvicomis, Boisd., under the name L. cancroides, Fab., 

 Dr. Howitt stating in his letter that the insect sent as 

 L. cancroides appeared to him to be identical with L. 

 curvicomis, grounding his opinion on an insect he had 

 seen so labelled in Count de Castelnau's collection. This 

 view proves to be correct, upon comparison of the type 

 specimen with the insect sent to Prof. Westwood, who 

 ^vill shortly publish descri])bions of some interesting 

 new species of the genus Lissotes, and will probably 

 give a more minute description of//, curvicomis than that 

 in the " A^'oyage de 1' Astrolabe." Upon the present 



