168 LARIID^. 



Mr. Champion points out (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1 910, p. 70) that it appears 

 to have escaped the notice of Continental Coleopterists, and that 

 presumably it is the var. Havipes, Pic. 



LAMIID^. 



MONOCHAMMUS, Curtis. 



(M. titillator, Fabr. (Syst. Ent. p. 172; Leconte, Journ. 

 Ac. Phil., ser. 2, ii. p. 148). this pretty brown and white mottled 

 species of Monochammus has been taken alive in Britain several times 

 and was recorded by Mr. Donisthorpe (Ent. Record, 1903, p. 153) as 

 taken in a willow tree in the Freemans' Gardens, Aylestone Road, 

 near Leicester, by Mr. Tristram in the summer of 1895, but as 

 evidently an importation. Mr. E. A. Waterhouse found it in Battersea 

 Park thirty years ago, and there is a specimen in the British Museum 

 labelled " taken alive in Surrey " ; it has also been captured by Mr. 

 Robson at Hartlepool. The species, however, is not even indigenous 

 to Europe, being a typical North American insect, and it cannot be 

 admitted to our lists.) 



OBEREA, Mulsant. 



O. oculata, L., var, quadrimaculata, Donisthorpe (Ent. 

 Record, x. 1898, 302). The ordinary foi^ms of 0. oculata have two 

 black spots on the disc ; in this variety there are two more black spots, 

 situated behind the others, but nearer to the sides of the thorax. 



Taken in Wicken Fen by Mr. Donisthorpe and Professor Hudson 

 Beare. 



LARIIDiE. 



LARIA, Scopoh = BRUCHUS,L. 



The family and generic names must be altered for this group as 

 there has been considerable confusion in the use of the terms Bruchidce 

 and Bruchus which have been applied to the family Ptinidoi and the 

 genus Ptinus respectively. All the chief authorities are now agreed as 

 to the necessity of the change. 



Mr. Champion (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxvii. (2 Ser. xii.) 1904, 144) dis- 

 cusses the synonymy, &c., of several species of Bruchus, and certain 

 alterations must be made in our lists 



L. pectinicornis, L. The insects which stand in our collections 

 under this name must be referred to L. incarnata, Boh., a species 

 recorded from Egypt, Spain, and Southern France. Mr. Donisthorpe 

 has found it in a granary in London. The true B. pectinicornis, L., 

 appears to have been found by Mr. E. A, Waterhouse near Putney, 

 quite away from houses, and by Mr. 0. E. Janson at Highgate, and 

 bied from the chick pea from a London warehouse ; West Malvern, in 

 a house (Tomlin) ; Coulsdon, sweeping (Bedwell). 



