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led into describing it as a new species under the name of gahrieli 

 (Zeitschr. fiir Entom. Breslau, 1901, p. 18). Professor Hudson Beare, 

 in proposing the substitution of the name gahrieli iov foveolatus in our 

 collections (Ent. Mo. Mag. 191(5, p. 2o-4), admittedly follows Reitter 

 without questioning the soundness of his conclusions, which have been 

 considered above. 



In our \s\3in([& foveolatiis appears to be confined to Scotland and the 

 north of England, whereas mutilatus is more widely distributed, with its 

 headquarters in Surrey, Kent, Oxford, etc. 



The names *S'. aeratus Muls. and >S'. vire&cens Muls. must both be 

 removed from the British lists : 



aS'. aeratus Muls. — There is a specimen of this species determined by 

 Seidlitz, and which agrees with Mulsant's description, in Mr. Champion's 

 collection. It is a metallic brassy insect, with the lateral carinae of the 

 head straight, thus differing from mutilatus, and has the last 4, or 5, 

 joints of the antennae thickened. The humeral stria of the elvtra is 

 strongly impressed, the outermo.st interstice being convex, but not inflexed 

 as in castaneus ; finally, the anterior tarsi are strongly expanded, dis- 

 tinctly wider than the tibiae. This feature, which is no doubt 

 confined to*the male, is not found in any other species of the genus. 

 Mulsant does not mention the tarsi, but the character is indicated by 

 his quoting " tarsalis Guillebeau, in coU.^'' as a sjmonym. 



The species is probably correctly identified by Reitter, though the 

 name is sunk by him as a synonym of aeneus Steph. (see atei', supra). 

 It is strange that the peculiar tarsal sti'ucture should have been over- 

 looked by this author. 



S. virescens Muls. — A single specimen, labelled " Savoy " ex Coll. 

 Sharp, must, I think, be this species. It agrees well with the description 

 and is veiy different from any other Sphaeriestes known to me. The 

 lateral carinae of the snout are sinuate, as in Rahocei^us ; but the head, 

 excluding the mouth-parts, is longer, and more convex between the eyes, 

 and the " scrobes " of the antennae, instead of abutting directly upon the 

 eyes, are separately rounded off some little distance in front of them. It 

 is this feature that is the distinguishing character of Mulsant's subgenus 

 Colposis, making the head, exclusive of the mouth-parts, relatively more 

 elongate and giving it, as he remarks, " une certaine analogic avec les 

 Hhtnosiffies.'" In virescens the muzzle is not more the 1| times as wide 

 at the apex as it is long from the front of the eyes to the front of the 



