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I refer with some slight reserve to the A. scita of Erichson (Ins. Deutschl., jii, 70) ; 
Dr. Sharp also informs me that he has several Scotch specimens apparently 
belonging to that species, and one of which, a male, kindly given some time ago 
to me by him, answers to its description satisfactorily in its chief characters. 
A. scita has the anterior tibie but slightly widened towards the apex, and 
is apparently most likely to be confused with small examples of A. dubia, in which, 
however, the anterior tibiz are usually considerably dilated. This character, how- 
ever, employed by Erichson as sectional, is untrustworthy at times, as in old 
examples the spining, &c., of the outer edge becomes abraded, and in species 
liable to great varieties of sexual development (as are many of this genus) indivi- 
duals of the same species differ considerably in this respect. Apart from the tibial 
test, A. scita may be known from dubia of equal size by its thorax having its 
greatest width apparently at the base, instead of nearer the middle, and by the 
front margin having a much shallower emargination for the reception of the head. 
The comparatively larger apical joint of its antenna, the straight hinder © 
margin of its thorax, the rounded apex of its posterior femora beneath in both 
sexes, and its less oblong form, at once distinguish it from A. calcwrata, to which 
Erichson, though noting these wide points of divergence, chiefly likens it. 
Its less perfectly oval form and the much stronger punctures of the striee of 
its elytra distinguish it from A. ovalis. Erichson states the punctuation of its 
thorax to be more delicate than in ovalis, though his diagnosis of the latter is 
“prothorace crebre punctulato,”’ and of scita “ crebre punctato.’ I fail to see this 
character in my insects.—EH. C. Rye, 10, Lower Park Field, Putney, S.W., Nov. i871. 
Note on a species of Apion new to the British lists. During the past month, Mr. 
Champion and I, in a day’s collecting at Mickleham, each captured, by promiscuous 
sweeping, an example of an Apion, which I think must be referred to the A. annulipes 
of Wencker (Monogr. des Apionides, p. 37; L’Abeille, I, p. 145). These examples, 
both @, are closely allied to flavimanum, Gyll., from the 2 of which they differ in 
their entirely black and very much stouter legs and wider tarsi, brilliant and very 
fmely punctulated rostrum, rather shorter prothorax, of which the punctuation is 
not so close, and the less dull interstices of their elytra. One of these specimens 
is rather larger than my largest flavimanum ; the other of the average size of that 
species. 
The g is described as having the antenne testaceous, except the club, all the 
tibizo marked with testaceous before the base and on the inner side, and the femora 
y (especially the anterior) very robust.—Ib. 
Note on an unrecorded British species of Ceuthorhynchus.—M. Charles Brisout 
de Barneville, in his paper on “ Ceuthorhynchus nouveaux,” ‘L’Abeille,’ Vol v 
(published in 1869), at p. 437 describes a new species, from England only, under 
the name Crotchi, which appears hitherto to have escaped record in this country, 
although OC. frontalis and C. Dawsoni (pygmeus, Guyon, M.S.), described at p. 438 
of the same work, have found a place in our lists, —before, indeed, their descriptions 
were published. (. Chevrolatii, also in our list, and in some foreign catalogues, 
and referred to the same author, does not appear to me to have been described at 
all as yet. 
