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are short but well developed ; the penultimate joint of the tarsi is 

 furnished with a long lobe on each side, these lobes only united at the 

 base ; the first joint of the hind tarsi is not quite so long as the other 

 joints united ; the tarsal claws are slender and simple ; the prothorax 

 is subcyliudrical, immarginate laterally, and without trace of basal 

 fovese ; the elytra are rather convex, nearly twice as wide as the pro- 

 thorax, widest about the middle, confusedly punctured, without trace 

 of striae ; the body is winged. In all the species the upper and under- 

 surfaces are very closely and coarsely punctured, and thickly clothed 

 with coarse decumbent pubescence. 



In the widely open and contiguous anterior coxal cavities (a 

 character overlooked by its describers), Lagrioida departs widely from 

 the LarjriidcB ; and the only other families of the Heteromera to which 

 it is at all nearly allied are the Melandryidce and (Edemeridae. It agrees, 

 however, very much better with the Melandryidce ; and it might well 

 be placed in this family in the vicinity of Earypus, Kirby, and several 

 allied genera recently described by myself, e.g., ConomorpJius, Physcius, 

 Thisias, &c. In their habits, the members of the genus more nearly 

 resemble certain Tenehrionidce, (Edemeridce, and Anthicidee. It is pos- 

 sible, however, that, like many (Edemeridce, they are attracted by the 

 flowers of the plants {Mesembryanthemum) beneath which they are 

 found ; the New Zealand L. Broimii is recorded as having been captured 

 under a log on the sea shore. In addition to the three species above 

 mentioned, examples of another, apparently undescribed, from King 

 George's Sound, West Australia, are contained in Mr. P. Bates's 

 collection. Lagrioida, in its geographical distribution, shows an 

 affinity between the Coleopterous fauna of Chile and that of New 

 Zealand or Australia ; and I believe other cases of this kind have 

 already been recorded. 



11, Caldervale Eoad, Clapham, S.W. : 

 March, 1890. 



Rhopalobrachium clavipes, Boh., at Gray Harhour, Straits of Magellan. — Two 

 examples of this remarkable insect were captured bj Mr. J. J. Walker at Gray 

 Harbour during the cruise of H. M. S. " Kingfisher." The locality given by Bolieman 

 (Kongl. Svenska Freg. Eug. Resa, Ins., p. 110) is Port Famine ; Philippi (Cat. Col. 

 Chile, p. 132) gives a very much more northern habitat for it, viz., Reloncavi, 

 Patagonia. The species has beeii very fully re-described and figured by Philippi 

 (Stett. ent. Zeit., 1866, p. Ill, t. 2, f. 5).— G. C. Champion, 11, Caldervale Road, 

 Clapham, S.W. : March, 1890. 



Cryptohypnus ahjidus. Sahib., in the Dovrefjeld. — I am much indebted to Dr. 

 E. Bergrotli, of Ilelsingfors, for tlie following communication : — "In your notes on 



