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insect is furthevmore narrower, and has the humeral angles of the elytra more promi- 

 nent. He has in his possession a male insect, from Paris, named B. Lefebvrii, which 

 agrees most closely with the present insect in the points just noticed, and it agrees 

 with the characters laid down for B. Lefebvrii (including the small size of the spur to 

 the middle libis), but here he finds a small spur to the anterior tibiiE, and he could 

 see no spur to the hind tibiae : in the descriptions the spur is said to exist on the 

 middle and posterior tibioe. 



The third species belongs to the same section as B. fossulata, having the abdo- 

 men simple in both sexes; the anterior coxae unarmed in the male, which sex is only 

 distinguished by a small spine at the apex of the intermediate tibicE ; the three foveis 

 on the thorax nearly equal. In size it is equal to B. sanguinea, and its antennae are 

 as long as in the female of that insect, and hence longer than in B. fossulata : its 

 colour is rufo-piceous ; the elytra red, with the margins dusky ; the legs fusco-lestaceous. 

 This species being apparently undescribed, the name Bryaxis simplex was proposed 

 for it. A detailed description was communicated to the Meeting. 



Lastly, Mr. Waterhouse called attention to a fine species of Anobium which had 

 just been found by Mr. Turner in the neighbourhood of London: this would most 

 probably prove to be the A. denlicolle of Panzer ; but the only specimens Mr. W, had 

 had an opportunity of examining were two in Mr. Stephens's collection, one in very 

 bad condition. Mr. Turner's insect differed from these in being very much larger, and 

 apparently rather broader, being very nearly as large as A. tessellatum ; its scutelluni 

 was apparently broader, and of a truly quadrate form. 



Mr. Waterhouse also read the following 



Note on the British Specie's of Clambus. 



" The species of Clambus described in the second volume of Stephens's ' Illustra- 

 tions ' are : — 



"I. Clambus Armadillus. The description appears to me to belong to Agathi- 

 dium minutum of Sturm (= Clambus minutus, Fairm. et Lab. = C. Armadillus, 

 Redt.), but C. Armadillus of Stephens's collection is identical with C. Armadillo of 

 Fairra., and it is from this latter insect I have no doubt that the figure in the ' Illus- 

 trations ' is taken. 



"2. Clambus coccinelloides (Kirby MSS.) is represented in Stephens's collection 

 by a specimen of Chaetarthria seminuluni. ' I possess a single example of this insect, 

 which was kindly given me by the Rev. W. Kirby,' ike. (see Steph. Illustr. ii. p. 184). 



" 3. C. Enshamensis, Steph. Illustr. and Collection. This is identified (and, as it 

 appears to me, correctly) with Scaphidium dubium of Marsham (Ent. Brit. p. 234) by 

 Mr. Wollaston : it is the Calyptomerus dubius of Wollaston's ' Catalogue of the Co- 

 leopterous Insects of Madeira,' C. Enshamensis of Jacquelin Duval's 'Genera des 

 Coleopteres d'Europe,' and Comazus Enshamensis of Fairm. et Laboulb. Notwith- 

 standing that there are certain discrepancies, when the characters laid dowr^by Redt- 

 enbacher for his genus Calyptomerus are compared with those which are displayed by 

 Clambus Enshamensis of Stephens, it has been supposed that they were really taken 

 from the same insect. We are informed, however, in the Berlin Ent. Zeit. 1857, p. 

 174, that Calyptomerus alpestris of Redl. (the only known species of the genus) is a 



