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that other authors had been in error in considering tliese two 

 species as distinct. As to my description in the ' British 

 Fishes,' which he now accuses of being too meagre, he for- 

 merly termed it elaborate. A nyhow it and my hgures have 

 been sufficient for iishermen to recognize them by and send 

 me the two forms. I can merely record zoological facts as 

 they come under my notice, and if readers skip or cannot 

 understand my descriptions I can scarcely consider the fault is 

 always to be laid at my door. 



Dr. M'Intosh says a poor-cod from my collection is in the 

 Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art labelled Gadus 

 luscus. This may be so, as my fish were sent to the Edinburgh 

 Fisheries Exhibition in 1882, and subsequently transferred 

 to the museum. During the interval they were in the show- 

 case which had Professor M'Intosh's name on it, and were, I 

 believe, under his charge, while I have not had an opportunity 

 of rectifying any error. But however this may be, we are 

 all aware of how transpositions of labels occur among speci- 

 mens in our best regulated museums, while the merest tyro in 

 ichthyology ought to be able to see in my figures and descrip- 

 tions of the two forms quite sufficient evidence by which to 

 recognize them. 



Cheltenham, 

 October 8, 1888. 



LII. — On new Lamiide Coleoptera belonging to the Mono- 

 hammus Group. By C. J. Gahan, M.A., Assistant, 

 Zoological Department, British Museum. 



Leprodera lecta, n. sp. 



Capitis fronte, pedibus et corpore subtus fulvo-brunneis, supra 

 griseis ; elytris basi plaga triangulari, communi, subfusca ; sin- 

 gulo ad latus plaga magna et, postice macula fuscis ; ilia antice 

 albo marginata et lateraliter in medio albo unimaculata : antennis 

 ( J ) corpore tertia parte longioribus, scapo ad apicem intus sub- 

 angulariter producto, ( $ ) corpore vix longioribus. 



Long. 25-33 mm. 



Hah. Siam. 



Head sparsely and minutely punctured on the front, on the 

 vertex, and on the cheeks, the latter dull white, as also is a 

 line on each side of the prothorax below the lateral spines, 



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