420 Mr. Claude Morley on the 



Basms rufiventris incorrectly placed in the genus Pohj- 

 blastus, and Desvignes' names are still treated as valid ; 

 the number of species is placed at forty, though thirteen 

 of these are now considered synonymous. To these I was 

 enabled to compile nine additions, in the paper I had the 

 honour of reading before you on March 6th, 1901, which 

 brought the actual total to thirty-six indigenous species. 

 The palsearctic fauna now includes little more than sixty 

 species (a few of which I do not know), and of these I am 

 herein able to add eight to our catalogue, and to describe 

 four kinds which appear to be new. 



Phthorimus anomalus, sp. n. 



Head not narrowed posteriorly, entirely black and subglabrous 

 with the strongly pilose maxillary palpi apically white ; vertex 

 posteriorly entire ; frons nitidulous, shortly pilose, sparsely and 

 obsoletely punctulate, centrally subcarinate with the scrobes large 

 and glabrous ; face strongly nitidulous ; epistoma somewhat convex 

 and distinctly discreted from the short, broad, apically strongly 

 emarginate clypeus by a straight fossa which is laterally produced 

 upwards to the orbits ; cheeks much shorter than basal width of the 

 stout and laterally margined mandibles. Antennse short, not reaching 

 beyond apex of thorax ; black with the pedicellus pale above ; 

 flagellum possessing about nineteen joints, ferrugineous beneath with 

 apices of the joints subnodulose and infuscate ; apical joint conical 

 and obtuse. Thorax strongly nitidulous, immaculate ; mesonotum 

 anteriorly subconvex, evenly and finely punctate, with distinct 

 notauli ; mesopleurae sparsely and evenly punctate, basally impressed 

 in the centre ; metathorax very strongly and evenly punctate with 

 the petiolar area subobsolete and spiracles circular ; areola glabrous, 

 parallel-sided and twice longer than bi'oad, with lateral cost* dis- 

 tinct, but costula? wanting ; metapleurse sparsely pilose. Scutellum 

 black, hardly convex, nitidulous and obsoletely punctate ; post- 

 scutellum very small. Abdomen longer than head and thorax, 

 immaculate, very strongly and evenly punctate throughout, with 

 only the apices of the segments glabrous, and broadest at the apex 

 of the first ; second segment with distinct thyridii ; terebra exserted, 

 as long as the abdomen, with spicula flavous and strongly acuminate 

 apically, valvulse black and very strongly setiferous-pilose through- 

 out. Legs clear red with all the coxae and basal joint of trochanters 

 black, with all the apical tarsal joints infuscate ; hind metatarsi, 

 except apically, flavescent and four times longer than their con- 



