NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1866. 83 



bilobed. According to Thomson (Skand. Col. vi.) this in- 

 sect is more evidently strigose, especially on the thorax, than 

 A. frontalis and A. forcipata. 



70. Anaspis monilicornis, Muls., Col. de Fr., Longipedes, 



1856, 88(?); G. R. Crotch, Ent. 26, p. 32j Cat. 

 Brit. Col. ed. 2. 



Mr. Crotch, after expressing his opinion that this insect 

 will undoubtedly occur here, and stating that it has the 

 colouring of A. rvfilahris^ but with no ventral appendages 

 in the male, and the first joint of the anterior tarsi equal to 

 the second, whilst in ritfilahris it is much shorter, includes 

 it, with a query, in his ^' Catalogue." 



According to Thomson it should be obsoletely strigose, 

 with the thorax nearly smooth ; but Mr. Crotch thinks far- 

 ther confirmation of this character is required. 



71. Anthicus quisquilius, Thorns., Skand. Col, vi, 360, 



2; G. R. Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. ed. 2; Proc. Ent. 

 Soc. 19 Nov. 1866 (quisquiliarius). 



Mr. Crotch states this insect to be confused with A.Jloralis 

 (jyedicularius), and not rare in dung-heaps, &c. 



It appears to be not quite so shining as A.floralis^ with- 

 out the two minute tubercles in the middle of the an- 

 terior margin of the thorax, and with its punctuation closer. 



Thomson refers his insect to the var. b of Gyllenhal's 

 A.Jloralis; but, as it seems to me, with scarcely sufficient 

 reason. 



It seems to occur indiscriminately with J .y?or«Z?'6%* and, 



were it not that Thomson expressly refers to the male, one 



would be tempted, from the trifling nature of its characters, 



to consider it as one of the sexes of that insect.* 



♦ Laferte (Mon. Anth., 152) states that males of A.floralis rai'ely have 

 the tubercles distinct, whilst they are almost always present in the female^ 



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