70 Major F. J. Sidney Parrj^ on 



to its being a well defined species, and alludes to its 

 close affiuity with C. prionoiiJcs $ , as well as to the sin- 

 gular coloration of the apex, and a portion of the external 

 margin of the elytra, which are of a dusky white, adding 

 that this may bo attributable to the bad condition of 

 the specimen. This latter character appears to me, upon 

 a recent examination of the insect in question, to be de- 

 cidedly abnormal, and its cause doubtful; upon compar- 

 ing the insect with a ? specimen of C. prionoidos of an 

 exactly similar development, from my own collection, I 

 can detect no difference, with the exception of a slight 

 variation in the punctuation of the mandibles, and the ab- 

 normal colour alluded to; I therefore feel little hesitation 

 in uniting the two insects as ono species, the name p7-io- 

 noides having priority. 



lihyssonotus fovcolatus, Thunbcrg. 

 R. ncbulosus, Kirby. 



I cannot find any description of L. fovcolatus in the 

 M('m. Ac. Potr. i. 1806, p. 199, as quoted by Geraminger 

 and von Harold, but I have met with it in the Mem. Soc. 

 Imp. de Moscou, i. 166, accompanied by descriptions of 

 other well-known species by the same author, Thun- 

 borg's description of L. fovcolatus is as follows : — 

 " Corpus totum ferrugincum, sou brunneum. Thorax 

 angulatus, convexus, medio stria et foveola obsoleta sub- 

 punctatus impressus, lateribus utrinquc in disco foveis 

 quatuor impressis. Elytra convexa, lajvissima. Femora 

 incrmia, tibiis spinosis.^' 



From the above brief description, and the fact that 

 neither the habitat nor a figure of the species is given, I 

 do not think the authors of the " Catalogus " are war- 

 ranted in suppressing Kirby's name for Thunberg's; and 

 until stronger evidence is afforded of the identity of 

 the two insects, I think it right to maintain Kirby's well- 

 known designation of 7?. ncbnlosvs, with fovcolatus as a 

 doubtful synonym ; in this view I am supported by Dr. 

 Burmeistor (Handb. v. 336) . 



Lamprima swuptuoso, Hope. 



The great variation in colour exhibited by all the 

 species of this genus, was a difficulty with which describers 

 of species had to contend in former years, from the 



