70 Rev. F. D. Morice on 
9. Nigra, tegulis, genubus pedum omnium, et tarsis anticis 
rufescentibus vel brunneis, tuberculis nigris. Corpus, abdomine 
post segmentum basale excepto, valde nitens, subtilissime sparse 
punctulatum. Vertex (non autem mesonotum) microscopice reticulato- 
aciculatus; scutellum, ut videtur, omnino laeve. Propodeum in 
medio triangulariter impressum, subobsolete strigosum, angulis 
lateralibus acutis ac quasi reflexis, sed haud vel vix dentiformibus. 
Caput antice visum fere rotundum (haud transversum). Antennarum 
articuli intermedii fere quadrati ; articulus 3" fere duplo- (4 fere 
sesqui-) latitudine sua longior. 
Long. cire. 6 mm. 
1 OF Alger, 23. 1098. F. 1D, M. 
DIODONTUS SCHMIEDEKNECHTII, Kohl 
I think these insects must belong to Kohl’s species 
described from the adjoining Province of Oran. They 
have all, however, black “Schulterbeulen” (tubercles) 
which the author says is unusual in sehniedeknechtir. 
(They very much resemble /uperus, but have, I think, a 
finer and more sparse puncturation; and, so far as I can 
ascertain, the range of that species does not extend far 
south of the Alps.) 
1 §. Hussein Dey (near Alger), probably on Reseda, 
4.1v, 93. A. EE. 
1 9. Hippdne, on Sedum caeruleum, 16. v, 96. A. EK. E. 
Zeid and Ine VAloer ml iv te. v, 98.5) 2 Dae 
PASSALOECUS BREVICORNIS, Moraw. 
The following specimens belong to the most brightly- 
coloured form of the species (called d@ in Kohl’s latest 
tabulation of the Genus). The insect we know in this 
country as P. ~signis is, according to Kohl, another form 
of the same species. On comparing British “insignis” 
with these Algerian insects, I find that the head and 
thorax in the latter are distinctly a little more shining 
and less closely punctured, and that in this respect they 
agree with some Swiss specimens in my collection given 
to me as turionwm, Dahlb.—which latter is also, according 
to Kohl, synonymous with brevicornis. 
The nomenclature of the Passaloecus spp. is a difficult 
subject, but has probably been cleared up as far as it is 
ever likely to be by the paper of Kohl above referred to 
