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abdomen. Perhaps it is this form that Wesmael called A. xanthius. Your Hoplism. maurus Marsh. is the darkest form existing of the not rare H. bispinat. Thbg. (perniciosus Gr.). In Sweden it has sometimes black legs, but never a totally black abdomen. Morphologically there is no difference. With us the smaller H. armatorius F. (albifrons Gr.) is commoner, & I have seen no intermediate forms, but from central Europe I will remember to have seen one. The H. maurus reminds me of another melanism I got from Rev. Johnson. It is a pair of an Exetastes (Rostrevor 2/7 30) coloured like E. nigripes Gr., but belonging to E. illusor Gr. Perhaps you can get specimens from him, if you have not found it yourself. The third remarkable Irish melanism I know of is the very dark Stenichn. culpator Schrk. you sent me, but this form has a wider extension. I have just had an English [[male symbol]] from the Fen region for inspection (sent by G. J. Kerrick, Cambridge) & possess a Swedish [[female symbol]] (perhaps a shade paler). In these melanisms & probably in many more your mild but nevertheless raw Gulfstream climate has set its mark. There is a corresponding fauna in E. Asia, [[insertion]] N. [[/insertion]] Japan & the Amoor region. We have got a very good sample of it from the Vladivostok district, nearly 2000 Ichneu-

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I think [[Ar?]] should be Gr. ie Hoplismenus Grav. see https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/14515789.pdf so I've edited. -@siobhanleachman