1893.] 101 



N. ELONGATULUM, n. sp, 



Ehngatum, prcecedenti colore simile, articulo primo antennarum 

 apicem capitis levissime superante, loho antico pronoti laterihus Jiaud 

 angulato, loho posfico crista destituto. luoiig., $ ? , 4, 2 mm. 



Venezuela. 



N. STJBOVATULUM, n. sp. 



Elonqato-ovatum,fuscu7n, articulo primo antennarum apicem capitis 

 attingente, pronoto ut in N. elongatulo constructo. Long., ? , 5 mm. 

 Brasilia. 



ANASPIS LATIPALPIS, Schilsky : 



AN ADDITION TO THE BEITISH LIST, WITH REMARKS ON 



VARIOUS OTHER SPECIES OF THE GENUS. 



BT a. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



Two well-marked species have hitherto been confused under the 

 name Anaspis suhtestacea, Steph., in my British collection ; one of 

 these is correctly named, and the other is referable to A. latipalpis, 

 Schilsky, which must therefore be added to our list. His diagnosis 

 [Die Kafer Europa's, xxxi, No. 73 (1895)] applies perfectly to the 

 British specimens before me. It is as follows : — 



A. LATIPALPIS, Schilsky. 



A. elongata, sericea, tesfacea, oculis anfennisque apice nigris, tar- 



sorum articulis apice ohscurioribus, tJiorace .suhtilissime elgtrisque 



subtiliter transversim strigosis, illis angulis posticis acutis, antennis 



gracilihus, articulis 3° et 4° cequalibus, articulis 6 — 10 ohconicis, palpis 



valde securiformihus, latis, elytrorum epipleuris longis. . 



Long., 2*5 —30 mm. 



JKas. : seqmento abdominis 3° medio valde producto, laciniis binis 

 subparallelis,basi approximatis, abdominis apicem attengentihus,instructo, 

 seqmento 4° brevissimo, simplice, 5° medio foveolato, apice leviter emar- 

 ginafo, tarsis anticis subdilatatis, articulo \° sequente fere duplo longiore. 



The two species are apparently about equally common in Britain, 

 as I have specimens of A. latipalpis from Shirley, Caterham, and 

 Darenth Wood, and of A. subtestacea from the New Forest, Ashtead, 

 and Sevenoaks. 



The male characters of the two insects are very different : A. 

 subtestacea having two widely separated laciniae at the apex of the 

 second ventral segment, and also lacinise at the apex of the third and 

 fourth segments, the fifth segment deeply cleft at the apex ; the 

 anterior tarsi much more strongly dilated, &c. The apical joint of 



