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from England, and it is said to be common on Snowdon ; it appears 

 to be confined to high mountains. I have a specimen in my collec- 

 tion (without locality) which is considerably smaller than the ordinary 

 examples of ^A^. yyllenhali. Ben-na-Buird (Donisthorpe, 1910). 



STENOLOPHUS, Dejean. 



S. plagiatuSy Clorham. Annals of Scottish Natural History, 

 January, 1901, p. 22. Oblong, subparallel, black with the thorax red, 

 slightly narrowed behind, posterior angles obtuse, base broadly foveo- 

 late on each side, upper surface with scattered punctures : elytra 

 yellow, with a blackish band on each near the suture, not reaching 

 either the base or the apex, deeply striate, with a long scutellary stiia. 



Two specimens taken by Mr. Dunsmore, near Gourock on the Clyde, 

 Scotland. 



Mr, Gorham has described these insects as belonging to a new 

 species. They are allied to >S. discophorus, Fisch.,and an insect identical 

 with them stands under the latter name in the British Museum : it 

 does not, however, accord with Fischer's species, which has a common 

 blue-black patch on the apical half of the elytra, and which was 

 described from a North Siberian insect. Mr. Gorham says : " I possess 

 specimens of ;S'. discojyhorus from Russia, and I may say at once that 

 our insect and that in the British Museum, attributed to South France, 

 are a wholly different species. They are to be distinguished both from 

 it and from >S'. skrimshiranus, not only by each elytra having a long 

 blackish plagia about half the length of the elytra, not reaching the 

 base or apex, and leaving the suture yellow ; but also by the rather 

 longer, more parallel form, and by having the thorax longer, and 

 narrowed towards the base, whereas in iS. discophorus it is nearly 

 quadrate (although lounded on the sides), that is to say, the width at 

 the anterior and posterior angles is about equal, and about equal to 

 the length." 



The species may have been introduced, as others have been, in 

 ballast or otherwise, but against this may be alleged the rareness of the 

 insect in Europe. It was found under stones above high-water mark, 

 behind an enclosure on the beach or shore fenced in for timber to 

 season in the watei^ — a natural habitat for the insect : and moreover, 

 two specimens were obtained together. 



ACUPALPUS, Dejean. 

 In the European Catalogue A. derelictus, Daws. (Geod. Brit. 159) is 

 given as synonymous with A. dor sails, F. A. dorsalis is a very vaiiable 

 insect. Mr. Rye expressed his opinion that Dawson's insect was quite 

 distinct (Ent- Ann., 1866, p. 60), it being larger and wider, with its 

 thorax broader, not straightly narrowed behind, but somewhat rounded 

 and toith the hasal fovea', quite unpunctured. Mr. Wollaston pointed out 

 the proportionate superior length of its tarsi, especially of the claw 



