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Such is the sad fate of two species of pumpkin toadlets—Brachycephalus ephippium and B. pitanga—that live in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.

The bare mention of such names as Nebria complanata and livida, Calathus mollis, Pogonus luridipennis, Trechus lapidosus, Aëpus marinus and Robinii, Cillenum laterale, Bembidium scutellare, ephippium and pallidipenne, Ochthebius marinus, Psylliodes marcida, Phaleria cadaverina, Helops testaceus, and Anthicus instabilis, so eminently characteristic as they are of briny situations, will at once appeal to our native entomologists; whilst the acknowledgement of the same principle is no less conspicuous in a host of other species which are not included in the British fauna.

Atlanticum, Woll., paler in Porto Santo than in Madeira, 66;the variations to which it is subject, 107, 108.—— bistriatum, Dufts., paler in saline districts, 62.—— ephippium, Mshm, pallid hue of, 64.—— obtusum, Sturm, varies in southern latitudes, 33.—— pallidipenne, Illig., pallid hue of, 64.—— saxatile, Gyll., variety of, on the south coast of England, 60.——

The latter in the Daphniidae are enclosed in a modified part of the mother’s shell, called the ephippium from its resemblance to a saddle in shape and position.

Ephippium, 3. idque succingit Cingulo, 4.