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the Scarborough specimens of C. quaJriguttatus have the spots large 

 and sharply defined, these examples resembling the normal continental 

 form ; Scotch examples are rarely so well marked." 



The following new species of Anaspis (vide Vol. V. p. 74) has been 

 described by Mr. Champion in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 

 Vol. ii. (Xew Series) p. 104 : 



Anaspis septentrionalis, n. sp. Elongate, black, the front of the 

 head and the palpi flavo-testaceous, thickly and finely pubescent, the pro- 

 thorax and the elytra very finely transversely strigose. Antennae black, 

 the three or four basal joints flavo-te.staceous, filiform, in the male very 

 elongate and slender, in the female considerably shorter, the penultimate 

 joints in both sexes longer than broad, but much more elongate in the 

 male than in the female ; prothorax about one-third broader than long, 

 bisinuate at the base, the hind angles rectangular ; elytra with the 

 transverse strigsB more distinct than on the prothorax ; beneath black ; 

 ornparatively slender the anterior pair, including the coxae, flavo- 

 testaceous, with the tarsi slightly darker the middle pair fusca testa- 

 ceous, with the tibiae, except at the base, piceous or fuscous, and the 

 tarsi, except at the base of the first and second joints, infuscate the 

 hind pair piceous, the extreme base of the tibiae excepted the tibial 

 spurs testaceous, the anterior and middle tarsi slender in both sexes. 



Male with the anterior tarsi very feebly dilated ; anterior and inter- 

 mediate tibia} sinuate within, the anterior pair slightly curved inwards 

 towards the apex. Third ventral segment elongated, produced in the 

 middle behind, and furnished at the apex Avith two long laciniae or 

 appendages, these latter narrowly separated at base, almost straight, 

 extending to the middle of the fifth segment, and becoming slightly 

 divergent posteriorly, the space enclosed by them unimpressed ; fifth 

 ventral segment very deeply and abruptly emarginate at the apex, but 

 not at all depressed in the middle in front of the emargination. Length 

 (with the head extended) 3|-3 mm. 



Two examples of this species were captured by Mr. Champion at 

 Aviemore, Inverness-shire, in July, 1876. 



Mr. Champion remarks that A. septdntrionalis is closely allied to 

 A.jrontaJis, L., but may easily be known from it by the more slender legs 

 and antenna; and by the well marked male characters. The male of 

 A.frontalis has the fifth ventral segment broadly excavate in the middle 

 from the apex nearly to the base (this part being quite unimpressed in 

 .4. sapient nondlu) and the apex much less deeply emarginate; the 

 lacinioe very distinctly curved inwards at the apex ; and the anterior 

 tarsi strongly dilated (very feebly so in A . septentrionalis}. The antennae 

 in the male of A. septentrionalis are very elongate and slender, the 

 insect thus resembling A. Garneysi, Fowler, but this latter has the 

 lacinia? strongly divergent and curved and enclosing a large broad space ; 



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