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antennae are decidedly shorter, the head is more strongly and rugosely punctured, 

 and is also more constricted immediately behind the eyes, which gives a curiously 

 swollen appearance to the tempora. The ? saw-sheath in rugosulus dilates gently 

 to the apex, while in csneus on the contrary it narrows. Another of Mr. Harwood's 

 captures, not previously recorded from this country, is Amauronematus viduatus, 

 Zett. (= vagus, Zadd.l. It belongs to Konow's subgenus Brachycolus (Term. Fuz., 

 1895, p. 167), has the 3rd joint of the antennae shorter than the 4th, and the eyes 

 unusually near the base of the mandibles. In the paper just referred to Konow 

 remarks that it is strange the species should not occur in Britain, but that no 

 Nematid described by Cameron can possibly belong to it, unless indeed it is " unter 

 hcBmorrAoidalis, Cam., verbirgt." 



On July 3 1st of last year I took a (5" of Emphytus cingillum, 

 Klug, at Woking. The species is recorded from France, Grermany, 

 and Sweden, but seems not to have been noticed hitherto in this 

 country. 



It is a very pretty and distinct kind. The posterior legs have white trochanters, 

 very broad red femora, red tibiae, dusky knees and tarsi. On the anterior and inter- 

 mediate pairs the trochanters and bases of the femora are black, the rest of the 

 femora and the tibiae red. The abdomen is black, with a rather ill-defined white 

 apical band on the 5th segment. The apical joints of the antennae are short, the 

 3rd joint a little longer than the 4th or the 5th, which are subequal. The " nervus 

 transversus ordinarius " (Thoms.), is received before the middle of the " cellula 

 furcata." 



Herr Konow has kindly examined all these insects, and the de- 

 terminations given above have his authority. 



Brunswick, Woking : 



March, 1898. 



THE SEXUAL CHARACTERS OP THE BRITISH SPECIES OP TOMOXIA, 

 MORDELLA AND MORDELLISTENA. 



BY G. C. CHAMPION", F.Z.S. 



The sexual peculiarities of most of the European species of these 

 genera (including all our Britisb forms) are described at length by 

 Herr J. Schilsky (Die Kafer Europa's, xxxi), and as he has detected 

 several characters that have been previously overlooked, it seems 

 worth while calling attention to them, so far as our British species are 

 concerned, those of Anaspis alone having been fully noted by English 

 authors. The ciliation of the palpi I have not been able to verify, as 

 it cannot be seen properly unless the specimens are mounted with 

 their heads free. It may be stated that in the males of Mordella and 



