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164 Mr. H. KE. Andrewes’ Notes on Synonymy 
This species is the same as S. plagiata Chaud. (Mon. des 
Siagonides, Bull. Mosc. 1876, i, 93). This comparatively 
scarce species is found chiefly in South India and Ceylon, 
though I have seen one example from Orissa. Chaudoir’s 
type was said to come from Dacca. 
The name of S. plana Bonelli (Obs. Ent. 1, 1813, 458) 
being thus preoccupied, I propose for it the new name of 
S. pumilus. 
47, Siagona (Galerita) flesus, p. 216. (Lund-Daldorff.) 
Type at Copenhagen. 
Redescribed by Dejean (Spec. Gen. i, 1825, 363) and by 
Chaudoir (Mon. des Siagonides, p. 94). It is a common 
species, spread over India, Burma, the F.M.S., Siam, 
and Indo-China. 
48, Pheropsophus (Brachinus) annulus, p. 217. (Lund.) 
Type at Copenhagen. 
Chaudoir could make nothing of this species (Mon. des 
Brachynides, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1876, 47), nor has any 
other author attempted to identify it. I find it to be a 
curious aberration, such as I have seen in no other example 
of the genus, the shoulder and median spots beimg united 
on each side by a line down the middle of the elytron, 
thus forming a ring on each shoulder. The vertex is black, 
but not the front; there is a little yellow on the sides of 
the prothorax, and the sides and apex of the elytra are 
bordered with yellow, the latter rather. narrowly. The 
head beneath, sides of proepisterna, metasternum, and 
metepisterna, pygidium, propygidium, and hind coxae are 
yellowish, the knees faintly fuscous. In structure the 
specimen agrees with P. tripustulatus F., of which I consider 
it to be an aberration. 
49, Melaenus (Brachinus) piger, p. 219. (Sehestedt- 
Daldorff.) Type at Copenhagen. 
Erichson (Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1847,.142) pointed out quite 
correctly that this species was closely allied to Melaenus 
elegans De}. (Spec. Gen. v, 1831, 482), but no other descrip- 
tion has appeared, and I therefore give one at the end, 
together with some further account of the genus. 
The species is spread all over India, and Mr. EH. -A. 
D’ Abreu has taken many specimens at Nagpur. I found 
it commonly at Belgaum many years ago during the rains, 
along with various species of Scagona, in the rubbish along 
the sides of the paddy-fields. 
50. Mastax (Brachinus) histrio, p. 219. (Lund-Daldorff.) 
Type at Copenhagen. 
