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sutural stripe of blacker pubescence, this becoming wider towards the 

 apex, the rest of the pubescence being greyish." Mr. Donisthorpe has 

 taken a form near Dublin with the elytra yellow. 



XYLOPHILID^. 



XYLOPHILUS, Latreille. 



X. brevicornis, Perris (L'Abeille, vii.p. 211, 1869). This species 

 must be added to the British list, as the insect recorded from the New 

 Forest as A. neglectiis, Duv. {nigripennis, Villa) is not that insect, but 

 X. brevicornis. The specimens of X. neglectus referred to by myself 

 (Brit. Col. V. 91) as from Wandsworth, must be referred to X. 2}opidneus. 

 As my description belongs to the true X. neglectus, which must, of course, 

 be now omitted, I append the description of the male of X. brevicornis 

 given by Mr. Champion (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxviii. (2 Ser. iii.) 1892, 69). 

 Perris does not state the sex of the specimen described by him, but from 

 the name he gives to the species it Avas probably a male. The species 

 may apparently be easily distinguished from all others belonging to 

 the section Olotelus, Muls., by the veiy short antennse in the male. 



" Male: moderately elongate, nari-ow, parallel; pitchy brown, the head 

 black, the antennae f usco-testaceous, with the three basal joints and the 

 apical one paler, the legs entirely testaceous ; the upper surface clothed 

 with fine greyish pubescence, the elytra moderately shining, the head and 

 prothorax dull ; head very finely, rather sparsely punctured ; the eyes 

 unemarginate, separated by a space about equal to three-fifths of the 

 breadth of the head ; antennae thickening outwardly, stout, short, 

 extending very little beyond the base of the prothorax, joint 1 incras- 

 sate, conical, 2 rather narrower, submoniliform, 3 slightly longer than 

 2, 4-10 strongly transverse, 7-10 wider than 6, 11 nearly twice as long 

 as 10, ovate ; prothorax moderately convex, about as long as broad, 

 parallel at the sides behind, densely and rugulosely punctured, and with 

 a deep transverse basal groove, which is interrupted in the middle by a 

 distinct dorsal carina ; elytra elongate, parallel, each Avith a deep oblique 

 depression below the base, densely and rather coarsely punctured, the 

 punctuation becoming still coarser towards the base and finer towards 

 the apex ; the posterior femora angularly dilated on the lower side beyond 

 the middle." L. lJ-2 mm. 



MELOID^. 



SITARIS, Latreille. 



S. muralis, Forst, var. flava, Hamm (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlv. (2 Ser. 

 XX.) 1909, 277). In this variety the whole of the elytra, wing membi-ane, 

 and abdomen are clear yellow instead of black. 



Oxford : several specimens taken by Mr. A. H. Hamm in the neigh- 

 bourhood of one village near Oxford, and, with a single exception, on one 

 and the same wall. 



