ADDENDA 345 



Taken at Bournemouth in May, 1912, by Dr. Sharp and Mr. Ford 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlviii. (2 Ser. xxiii.) 1912, p. 150.) 



On May 14, 1905, Mr. Donisthorpe took two specimens of a 

 Strojihosomus in a sandy place at Poole Heath, near Bournemouth, 

 which he recognised as new to us. Dr. Sharp has identified them as 

 S. curvijics (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlviii. (2 Ser. xxiii) 1912, p. 197). 



Dr. Sharp (I.e. p. 151) states that the synonymy of the genus is 

 very uncertain : in the last European catalogue fulvicornis, Walton, 

 is placed as a synonym of capitatus Deg., and rujijjes, Steph., is given 

 as a separate species, synonymous with capitatus, Bedel [nee. Deg.), 

 but o'ujipes and fulvicornis appear to be identical. Dr. Sharp says that 

 *S'. fulvicornis is a quite distinct species, distinguished by possessing only 

 very minute short setje, which mostly arise from the punctures, not 

 from the interstices between the striae. It is locally not uncommon in 

 the New Forest, on stunted oaks and birches. 



If the law of strict priority is to be observed the name *S'. melano- 

 grammus, Forster (1771), must be substituted for S. conjli, F. (1775). 



Barypeithes duplicatus. Keys. (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlvii. (2 Ser. 

 xxvii.), 1911, 130. Plate II.) This species comes nearest to 5. ^;eZ?iic?VZt(s, 

 Boh., and resembles it in the fact that the integument is dotted with 

 distant outstanding hairs ; these are absent in B. j^yrenceus, Seidl, and 

 B. araneiformis, Sehr. The differences between the two species are given 

 by Mr. Keys as follows : 

 Anterior and Intermediate femora of male 



strongly, posterior moderately, thickened ; 



thorax almost globular, elytra about twice 



the length of the thorax ; legs compara- 

 tively thick and short ; colour paler ; 



average length ?> mm. . . . . B. duplicatus, sp).n. 



Anterior femora of male strongly, intermediate 



and posterior moderately, thickened ; 



thorax as long as broad, with sides almost 



semicirculai", but converging in front ; 



elytra more than twice as long as thorax ; 



legs comparatively long and thin ; colour 



darker ; L. 3-4 mm. . . . . B. pellucidus, Boh. 



Mr. Keys gives excellent figui-es of the two species, so that they can 

 be easily distinguished. 



The species has been distributed as B. pellucidus by the Rev. 

 Theodore Wood, who took it in great numbers between Broadstairs and 

 Margate in July 1886 : they were found in hollows on one small patch 

 of sand, just above high-water mai'lc, and were over in two or three 

 days. Commander Walker took it in the Blean Woods, Kent, trapped 

 in water in deep cart-wheel tracks, as well as in faggots : the species 

 recorded by the Rev. H. S. Gorham as B. pdlucidus, taken in great 

 numbers in sandy ground in 1872, at Eastry, near Sandwich, must 

 probably be referred to this species. 



