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L. viciae, 01. The insects recorded under this name as having 

 been taken by Di-. Power at Hurst and the Devil's Dyke, Brighton 

 (the specimens, however, are not in the Power collection), and by 

 Mr. Champion on the chalk hills at Oaterham, must be referred to 

 L. FaJircei, Gyll., which is really a variety of L. at07naria, L., from 

 which it diflers in the almost entirely black legs and antennae. The 

 true L. vicice, 01., does not apparently occur in Britain ; it has the legs 

 black, the thorax shorter than that of L. atomaria, and the inter- 

 mediate tibije of the male bidentate at the apex : it differs from 

 L. riifipes^ Herb>t., in its trapezoidal thorax. The males of Z. atomaria 

 differ from those of L. rufipes in having the intermediate tibiae armed 

 with a short tooth at some distance before the apex and their inner 

 apical angle acute. 



L. luteicornis, 111. (1794) is a variety of L. rufipes, Herbst. (1783) 

 ( = m(.bi/a, Boh.). The colour of the antennae and -of the anterior and 

 intermediate legs in L. rvfipes is very variable, but the females always 

 have at least the six outer anteiuial joints black, and the males usually 

 have the antennae entirely rufo-testaceous. In both sexes the four 

 anterior legs and the antennae are occasionally almost entirely black ; 

 the tendency, however, is always for the male to have these parts more 

 lightly coloured than the female. The males, Mr. Champion says, may 

 easily be identified by the slightly curved intermediate tibiae, which ai'e 

 sinuous on the inner edge and sharply bidentate at the inner apical 

 angle. In Mr. Champion's examples captured at difierent times at 

 Claygate and Ashtead, Surrey, there are all the gradations in the 

 colour of the legs and antennae ; the species also occurs at Hanwell 

 and Guildford, and Mr. Donisthorpe has found a specimen in lichen, 

 on a gate-post at Budleigh Salterton, Devon. 



L. lentis. Boh., is placed in the last British Catalogue (Beai-e 

 and Donisthorpe) among the introduced species at the end ; it has, of 

 course, been introduced, but it has at least as much claim to be included 

 in our lists as some of the other species : the records of the insect as 

 taken by Dr. Power at Birchwood and Gravesend are probably in 

 error. 



L. rufimana, var. velutina, Muls. (Op. viii. 27). Mr. Champion 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. xliii. (2 Ser. xviii.) 1908, 1) has the following note on 

 Bruchus affinis, Frol. {flavimanus. Boh.) : " Some years ago Schilsky 

 examined the so-called B. ajffinis of my British collection and pronounced 

 them to be B. i^ufiinamcs, Boh., var. velutinus, Muls. (Schilsky in Kiisters 

 Die K'afer Europa's xxxxi. 22) : I have also seen specimens of this form 

 in the British Museum and in the collection of Commander Walker. It 

 occurs sparingly in various parts of Kent (Sittingbourne, Sheppey and 

 Chatham) in company with the true B. rufimanus, from vvhich it differs 

 in the greyer and more uniformly coloured vestiture of the elytra. 

 The true B. affinis (which I have taken in Corsica) probably has no 

 claim to a place in the British list ; it has two almost bare black spots 

 on the pygidium as in B.pisi, L., as noted by Boheman." Donisthorpe, 



