NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1868. 41 



divero^iiif]:, — the raised keel does not extend further than a 

 third of the lateral margin,— and the disc is much more 

 strongly rugose-punctate ; and by the fuscous middle of its 

 femora. Its elytra are distinctly striated to the apex, and 

 the sub-carination of the inteistices reaches beyond the 

 middle. 



In point of marking and colouring it seems considerably 

 to resemble C. pulchellus, and to be as variable as that 

 insect. 



A glance at the fig. on our frontispiece will probably con- 

 vince others, as the specimen from which it was taken has 

 convinced me, that this is the most handsome and interesting 

 addition to our Coleopterous fauna that has been made for 

 manv vears. 



43. Phosph/enus hemipterus (Frontisp., fig. 8), Geoffr.; 



Kies., Ins. Deutschl., iv, 457; E. C. Rye, Ent. 



M. Mag., vol. V, p. 44 ; Catherine C. Hopley, ib., 



p. 70. 

 Miss Hopley's account of her capture in June last at 

 Lewes of four male specimens of this strange insect will 

 doubtless have both surprised and interested English Cole- 

 opterists. There appears no reason to think they were 

 accidentally imported, and the species is common enough in 

 France and Germany. It is, however, curious that they 

 should have appeared during such an excessively hot summer 

 as that of the present year. The insect is of so peculiar a 

 build that there is no need for me to do more than refer to 

 the figure of it on the frontispiece to the present "Annual." 

 The female has no rudiments of wing-cases or wings, and is 

 larger than the male. The antennae and legs of this species 

 are very suggestive of LycuSj the habits of which, according 



