190 CUECULIONID^. 



»S'. jungermannia^, Reich. The S. 2)ygmcei(,s of British collections must 

 be referred to the latter insects. 



There has been and still is considerable confusion in collections as 

 regards this genus, but Mr. Edwards has certainly unravelled several 

 of the difficulties regarding our species ; we therefore give some of his 

 remarks on them : 



S. coecus, Reich. " This species may be recognised in any condition 

 by its unequal claws. I have seen no specimen in which the scaling 

 of the elytra was complete, but several had more or less extensive 

 patches of undisturbed scales, from which it is evident that the 

 normal condition is for each interstice to have a row of distant fine 

 hair-scales down the middle, and an irregular double series of elongate- 

 oval white scales ; the latter are twice as long as wide, truncate at the 

 apex, and separated from each other in a lateral direction by a space 

 equal to the width of one scale." 



Specimens of this insect have been described from Kent and Folke- 

 stone. 



S. jungermannise, Reich. " In form this species i^esembles the 

 foregoing so closely that denuded examples are only to be separated 

 by their equal claws. In fresh specimens the elytra are densely 

 covered with broad, subcontiguous, pale brown scales, with a sprinkling 

 of iri'egular patches of white ones, and each interstice has a row of 

 distant decumbent hair-scales down the middle. The appressed scales 

 are not more than one and a half times as long as wide." 



S. reichij'Gyll. " This is easily distinguished from our other two 

 species by its larger size, and the greater bulk and width of the body 

 behind the thorax, as well as by the peculiar sculpture of the latter. 

 The character of the scaling of the elytra does not differ appreciably 

 from that of S. jungermannke." 



This latter species Mr. Edwards identifies with my var. chamjnonis, 

 and records specimens from Caterham and Folkestone. I agree with 

 most of what he says on our British species, but S. jungermannke 

 appears to me to be smaller and narrower than «S'. ccecics, and I think 

 that more specimens of S'. rekhi must be examined before the var. cham- 

 jnonis is discarded. *- 



TYCHIUS, Germar. 

 Mr. James Edwards has worked out the British species of the genus 

 Ti/chms, concerning which there has been considerable confusion, and 

 has published a valviable paper in the Ent. Mo, Mag. xlvi. (2 Ser. xxi. 

 1910, 8O-80), in which he adds to the British list a species not 

 included in the latest British catalogues or in this work (v. 296-297), 

 viz., T. hcumatopus, Gyll. { = jtmceus, Boh., nee Brit. Cat.). 



Mr. Edwards distinguishes the species as follows : 



I. Elytra with the suture and two large 

 spots on each, one at the shoulder and 



