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linea tenui media impresso, elytris hoc paulo longioriljus. L. I--'- mm. 

 Facie quasi I'Jn/to.siis haltirus videtur." 



Plu/to.vi^ ninriirntrifi, Chevr.— This species is omitted in the 1893 

 Catalogue. Fowler {('')l. ]>rit. hlrs, vol. ii., p. 170) regards it as a 

 form of /'. ludticK^, Kr., and says : — " It seems very probable that the 

 two species are identical." It is a good species and must be rein- 

 stated, as pointed out by Mr. Champion in the Knt. }fn. Maif., vol. 

 XXXV., p. 1. The British localities known for it at present are Mable- 

 thorpe, Chesil beach, and Flintshire. It will probal)ly turn up in 

 other places. 



(jKnJiiis nii/nirafnilrii^, Rey. — In the /-hit. Mo. Ma:/., vol. xxxii., 

 p. .^O., one specimen is mentioned as having been taken by Mr. Tuck 

 at J3ury St. Edmunds in a nest of Jtaiithiis hdrtdniin, it was then 

 recorded as a var. of Q. mciioiiuiintiii, Marsh. Mr. Morley in i-ecording 

 further specimens, points out (Knt. Mn. Maij., vol. xxxiv., p. 2G7) 

 that it is a good species. 



(Jitrtliiis ripariKs, Kelln. — Blatcli (Hnt. Ma. Maij.,\o\. xxxiii., p. 80). 

 Taken in some numbers by ]\Ir. Blatch, on the margins of swift waters, 

 near Porlock. Also taken by ^Ir. Chitty in flood refuse from the river 

 Beaiily, Inverness. 



(Juriliiis kraat^Ji, Bris. — Donisthorpe {l''nt. Itcnml, vol. x., p. 196). 

 The first few specimens were taken by Professor Beare and myself, on 

 the banks of a stream at Chiddingfold. I afterwards took it again 

 in some numbers. 



PJiiloiitliiis iDiibratilis, Grav. — This species is omitted in the 1893 

 Catalogue, no doubt by an oversight. 



I'lati/strt/iKs aliitacciis, Thoms. — Champion {l\iit. M<i. Ma</., vol. 

 xxxiii., p. 98). Taken by Mr. Keys at Slapton Ley, Devon. 



Xi'iirajJic'i jdanifroiis, Blatch. — Blatch (K>it. Mn. Ma;/., vol. xxvi., 

 p. 93). Taken by Mr. Blatch under bark of birch stumps, in Sher- 

 wood Forest. 



Hi])jiiHJa)ina raricuata ab. cni/lc/iaytli, Rye. — Rye (Knt. Hecnnl, 

 vol. iv., p. 213). Taken by Mr. B. G. Rye, at SAvanage, Dorset. 



A»atis (icellata ab. Iirl)rara, L. — A specimen of this aberration was 

 taken by Mr. B. G. Rye at Oxshott, in 1892, in company with the 

 type, by beating firs. The elytra are brownish-yellow A\'ith an irregular 

 black line transverse at base, and continued from the shoulders on the 

 outer margins for about two-thirds of the length of the elytra, and 

 Avith two longitudinal black lines on the disc of each elytron, the line 

 nearest the suture being slightly the longer. 



Mirrasjiis IQ-jiimrtata ab. pDirrri, Weise. — This aberration is omitted 

 in the 1893 Catalogue. Fowler {Col. Jhit. Isles, a'oI. iii., p. 168) 

 says : — ■" This variety has the upper surface, or at all events the elytra, 

 unicolorous black ; it has been found in Lee pit near London, rarely, 

 l)y Dr. Power, in whose collection there is also an intermediate 

 variety." Crotch {llrrisian of ('(HTinrUidar, p. 182), under .l/(Vm.s/)w 

 IQ-piinrtata, Avrites : — "In an immense series of this insect, taken by 

 Dr. Power in England, are specimens Avith the spots confluent, and 

 several quite black, this is a variety that has not been recorded before." 

 Weise from this note of Crotch's described this aberration in Xeitsrhrijt 

 fin- Kntiiinohuiic, Breslau, Siebentes Heft, 1879, p. 127: — "Var. </. 

 Flgd. einfarbig sclnvarz (Crotch, llrrh.) \. pntnri." There are a dozen 

 specimens in the PoAver collection. 



