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is one of the two specimens from the Dejean collection which 

 Putzeys had before him when preparing his Monograph on the 

 genus divina (Mém. Liège li. 1846. 599 (81)). I have had the 

 opportunity of comparing this example with Bonelli's type and 

 find them to agree well. 



The example in the Hope Collection at Oxford, to which I 

 referred a year or two ago (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1919. 210), 

 also agrees well with the type. I find that I was in error in 

 saying that I had seen nothing named « Cliv. fodiens Illig. » , 

 for the label attached to this specimen reads « lobata Dej. Type, 

 Putzeys, fodiens 111. » , and no doubt this is the example referred 

 to by Putzeys in his Monograph. 



From these considerations I think there is no longer any 

 doubt regarding the identity of Dejean's species with Bonelli's. 



divina picipes (p. 481). No. 7027. This specimen claims to be 

 the type, but Bonelli says at the end of his description « Patrie 

 inconnue. Du Cabinet de M. Boissier » . The species was long ago 

 identified with C. attenuata Herbst, erroneously stated by the 

 author to have come from North America, and this synonymy is 

 no doubt correct, though I have not seen Herbst's type; at all 

 events the specimen agrees with the traditional identification of 

 Herbst's species. 



There has been an exchange of coloured labels here, for this 

 specimen bears a yellow one with the name « C. lobata Bon. 

 Bengal » , while the next species has a green label « C. picipes 

 Bon. America ». There is, however, a further label indicating 

 that according to the number the former example is actually 

 the type of C. picipes. 



In the Postscript to his Monograph (p. 51) Putzeys says 

 « M. Schaum a examine l'insecte sur lequel Bonelli a fait sa 

 description et qui repose au Musée de Berlin. Il l'a reconnu pour 

 ètre le Scar, attenuaius de Herbst ». There is therefore a con- 

 flict of evidence, which might be settled if the present whereabouts 

 of Boissier's collection were known. 



The species was described again by Putzeys (Mon. 586 (68)) 

 under the name of C. melanaria, which was kept distinct in 

 the Postscript, but identified in the Revision (p. 110) with picipes 

 and attenuaius. 



