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confluent, it is also brightly coloured. Canon Cruttwell found it in 

 some numbers on a patch of sandy coast near Renvyle, co, Galway, in 

 August, 1899, the type form not being present. Mr. Chitty recorded 

 it from the Cullin sandhills, and Commander Walker as abundant on 

 Machrihanish beach, Campbellton, N.B., in both cases unaccompanied 

 by the type. Mr. Donisthoi-pe found it in plenty on the sandhills, 

 Dingle Bay, co. Kerry. Dr. P. Mason captured it in Iceland (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. 1890, p. 199). This seems to be the var. hremfasciata, 

 Weise, but as that appears to include three difierent forms, it is 

 perhaps as well to retain Mr. Donisthorpe's name, which is recognised 

 in the last Eui-opean Catalogue. 



ANATIS, Mulsant. 



A, ocellata, L., var. hebrsea, L. (8yst. Nat. ed. x. SO.")). This 

 is a very beautiful and striking variety and is well figured in the 

 Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 

 (iii. xi. 1895, PI. I. fig. 11) ; the ground colour of the elytra is brownish- 

 yellow with an irregular black band just before base continued along 

 the margins for about two-thirds the length of the elytra, but at some 

 little distance from their edges ; on the disc are two elongate parallel 

 broad lines, parallel also to the marginal lines, the part near the suture 

 being the longer. 



Oxshott (Surrey) : one specimen, taken by B. G. Rye, unique as 

 British ; it is, apparently, a very rare variety in Central Europe. 



PULLUS, Mulsant. 



P. (Scymnus) limonii, Donisthorpe (Ent. Record, xv. 1903,287). 

 Broad oval, convex, black with white pubescence ; antennfe and palpi 

 testaceous ; head with labrum, black ; thorax black with base narrower 

 than base of elytra, giving the appearance of a shoulder to the latter; 

 elytra black, or black with four yelloAv spots, the posterior pair being 

 always the larger, or with the spots confluent, coarsely punctui-ed, the 

 punctuation consisting of larger and smaller punctures mixed together 

 in about equal proportions ; underside entirely black, the post-coxal 

 fovese with raised sides incomplete ; femora dark or quite black ; tibiae 

 and tarsi testaceous. L. IJ-lf mm. 



On the flowers and at the roots of the sea-lavender, Staiice limonium; 

 Yarmouth, Isle of Wight (Donisthorpe and Burr) ; Isle of Sheppey 

 (Champion). 



The nearest allies of this species are P. midsanti, Wat., and 

 iV. redtenhaclteri, Muls. From the former it diflers in having the i-aised 

 sides of the post-coxal foveas incomplete, very nearly as in ^V. redten- 

 hacheri (whereas in P. laidsanti they form a more or less complete 

 semicircle round the posterior coxse), in the dark femora and the 

 entirely black abdomen (in P. imdsantl the legs are entirely testaceous, 

 and the apex of the abdomen red) ; the elytra also are much more 

 strongly punctured. From N. redtenhacheri it may be known by its 



