S ADEPHAGA. 



A. continua, Thorns., Opusc. 1873, 52'9, var. convexior, 



Stepb., Mand. i. 131, If Stephens' insect is to be consideied as a 

 mere convex variety of A. continua, as it probably ouglit to be, his 

 name must have the priority, as it has in the European catalogue of 

 1891, and we must therefore alter the nomenclature to A. convexior, 

 Steph. var. A. continua, Thorns.; the variation, however, appears to be a 

 rery slight one. 



A. famelica, Zimm., Gistl. Faun. i. 36. [A. contmsa, Schiodte, 

 Danm. Eleuth. 186, 21. A. vulgaris, Thorns., Skand. Col. i. 249 

 (nee Panz).) As a rule somewhat larger than the lai'gest examples 

 of A. spreta which it chiefly resembles in sculpture and colour; the two 

 basal joints of the antennae are usually red, but the second is often 

 black on the upper side and sometimes both are black ; the thoi^ax 

 is very short, double as broad as long posterioi-ly, rounded at the sides, 

 with the anterior angles produced and moderately sharp, and the hind 

 margin nearly straight; the po.sterior angles are slightly less than right 

 angles ; the base on either side is furnished with two distinct impunc- 

 tate impressions ; the elytra are long, more than double as long as the 

 pi'onotum, and broader in the middle than its base, and the striae are 

 rather fine and do not become deeper behind ; legs entirely black. The 

 colour is variable, nigro-cceruleous or almost black specimens occurring. 

 Female with two setigerous pores on each side of the anal segment. 

 L, 6-8 mm. 



Woking and Chobham ; taken by Savmders and Champion (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. xxxii. (2 >Ser. vii.), 97). Netley Heath (Walker). 



The species as Mr. Champion {I.e.) says is intermediate between A. 

 spreta. Tie']. (= cwrte, Steph.) and A. lunicollis, Schiodte {= vulgaris 

 Panz. nee Thoms.) ; from the first of these it may be separated by its more 

 elongate elytra, the distinctly more slender and elongate black legs 

 (the tibise are pitchy red in A. sjireta) and the darker first and second 

 joints of the antennfe ; the males, moreover, have the middle and hind 

 tibiae less bowed, and the females have two setigerous pores (instead of 

 one as in^. spreta) on either side of the fifth ventral segment near the 

 margin ^ from A. lunicollis, with which it agrees in the dark basal 

 joints of the antenna? and the black leg.-^, it differs in having the thorax 

 less dilated, with the hind angles more rectangular, and the elytral 

 striae not more deeply impressed towards the apex, the insect in this 

 respect agreeing with A. spreta. The species is widely disti'ibuted in 

 northern and central Euiope, but it is very rare in Germany, and has 

 not been recorded from Fi-ance. 



L.ffiMOSTENUS, Bonelli. 

 L. (Laemosthenes) complanatus, Dej., Spec. Col. iii., p. 58. 

 (Z. alatiis, Woll., In.s. Mader. 27 ; L. chilensis, Gory., Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr. 1833, p. 232 ; L. mfitarsis, Curtis., Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii., 1839, 

 p. 189.) This insect is very like Pristonychus temcola, Herbst., 

 with which it has been found mixed in several collections; it is, on 



