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94. Celioxys coturnix, Pérez (?)—) 92, Amara (M), June 26th (also, between 
June 19th and 22nd at Amara a @ which 
seems to belong to the same form). 
In both these specimens the abdomen is practically unicolorous, rosy-testace- 
ous throughout! Otherwise the 2 appears to have exactly the characters by 
which Pérez separated his coturnix from hemorrhoa. (He was not acquainted 
with the ¢). There is the same ‘ powdering’ over of the vertex, mesonotum, 
etc., etc., with silvery scales (mostly oval in form, but some of the smaller ones 
almost circular !) the same fine close puncturation, and the same sort of “‘ caréne”’ 
which Pérez describes as running into the “‘ premarginal depression ”’ of the 6th 
abdominal dorsal-plate. 
I took at Biskra in Algeria 2 2 9 which seem to differ from Captain Buxton’s 
specimen only in being much smaller, and these were recorded by Edward 
Saunders in 7’rans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1908, p. 241 as “‘coturnix, Pérez(?).” I have 
also taken a 92 at Jericho whichis slightly larger than the Amara 9, and has two 
of its abdominal segments (the 4th and the 5th) blackish above. Otherwise this 
also agrees with the Mesopotamian form. 
The 4 so much resembles the 2 in colour and general appearance, and was 
taken so nearly at the same time, that I can scarcely 
ee doubt that the two are conspecific. Apart from 
re “yy colour and pilosity I have not succeeded in finding 
a any substantial difference to distinguish it from 
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5 ‘ge hemorrhoa @. The “eight teeth”? on the apex of 
the abdomen seem to be very similar and arranged 
eae 7 hs “a in the same way. (Fig. 6. Outlines of the 6th 
\/ \ Ree abdominal tergite viewed from above. I have not 
} ' attempted to represent the fovecation, pilosity, etc., 
7 8 of the segment. As in hemorrhoa it is deeply and 
widely sulcate down the middle, and clothed with 
-like hairs at its base. 
Ke Be Ouney sh oe ee 
abdominal tergite in C. 
coturnix. 
(Fig. 7 represents the apex of the 
2 abdomen viewed from above. The 
dotted lines are meant to give an idea 
of the “‘ premarginal depression ” and 
by the carina which projects into it. 
The apex of the 6th ventral plate 
seems to be quite pointed, not narrow- 
ly truncate and very slightly emargi- 
nate, as usually in hemorrhoa.) 
Fig. 7. Apex of abdomen in C. 
colurnix. 
95. Caelioxys obtusa, Pérez.—2 & &, Amara (M), 14th-15th June. 
One specimen has the first 3 abdominal segments red, in another there is only 
a touch of that colour at the base of segment 1. (In a ¢ from Gibraltar given to 
me by E. Saunders the abdomen is entirely black, and it seems to have been 
so in the specimen described by Pérez.) 
what Pérez calls its “interruption” - 
