140 BUPRESTID^. 



ANOMALA, Samouelle. 



The A. donovani of Marsham, referred to by Stephens (111. Brit. iii. 

 226) has nothing to do with A. cenea, De G., or the var. frischii, F., but is a 

 North American species, which was named A. irrovata by Blanchard, 

 forty-eight years after Marsham named his insects. The original descrip- 

 tion in Slarsham's Ooleoptera Britannica, p. 44 (as stated by Mr. G. J. 

 Arrow, Ent, Mo. Mag. xxxv. (2 Ser. x.) 1899, 269) was drawn up from 

 two specimens found by Donoran at Newton Nottage, in Glamorganshire. 

 It is not known whether these are in existence, but the description 

 leaves no doubt that they were specifically identical with the two 

 British Museum examples, of whose origin there is no record. It is 

 just possible that they may be the same specimens. 



The name var. donovani has sometimes been applied to the entirely 

 greenish-reneous form of A. cenea, with which, of course, it is in no way 

 connected. 



TRICHIUS, Fabricius. 



It is very doubtful whether we possess T. zonatus, Germ., which has 

 been wrongly regarded as a synonym of T. ahdominalis, a Caspian insect 

 which is certainly not British. T.fasciatus is followed in the 1906 

 European Catalogue by twenty varieties, and it is probably to one of 

 these that any departure from the type in our specimens should be 

 referred. At present we should only be credited with one species, 

 although it is possible that we may possess T. zonatus {v. Brit. Col. iv, 

 61, 62). 



BUPRESTID^. 

 MELANOPHILA, Eschscholtz. 



M. acuminata, De G. (Mem. Ins. iv. 133); M. appendiculata, F. 

 (Ent. Syst. i., ii. 210, 102) ; M.morio, Payk. (Faun.Suec.ii. 230). Uni- 

 colorous black or blackish-bronze, somewhat depressed, upper surface 

 rugulose and sub-opaque ; head thickly punctured ; elytra somewhat 

 longer than the thorax, dentate, thickened in the middle ; thorax quad- 

 rangular, somewhat broader than long, slightly widened in front, with 

 the sides rounded, and with sharp posterior angles, furrowed longi- 

 tudinally in the middle, finely granulosely punctate ; elytra much 

 broader than the thorax, with the sides finely serrate, finely granulosely 

 punctate, upper surface more or less uneven, with traces of raised 

 lines ; underside very finely punctured, rather shiny, with a more or 

 less distinct metallic sheen ; legs very finely punctured. L. 6|^-11^ mm. 



Several specimens taken in August and September, 1909, and 

 subsequently in some numbers, by Mr. Champion on charred pine trunks 

 near Woking. He says that when at rest on the charred pine trunks 

 it exactly resembles a small pieceof burnt bark. The larva has the 

 greatly-developed, flattened prosternal segment which is characteristic 

 of the Buprestidas. This addition to our Coleopterous fauna is one of 

 the most interesting that has been made for some years. It has 

 recently been found in the New Forest. 



