'or interesting Indigenous Insects. 2?^ 



i. vittata is characterized by its hemispherical form, whilst L. la- 

 tifrons is ovate and somewhat linear : it is separated from Anisotoma 

 €pinipes, Gyll. by its paler colour, elytra with lines of punctures, and 

 ochreous club of the antennae. Both species I took in Norfolk, as 

 well as L. rufa, which is only a variety of Gyllenhal's insect. 



Fam. Staphylinid^. 

 Genus 191^. Pelecyphorus, iVbrc?. Eukyporus, jBn'c/i. 

 2. picipes, Payk. 



This species, recorded as Astrapeeus basalis, proves to belong to a 

 new genus, and will be found described in Gyllenhal under the name 

 of Oxyporus picipes*. 



Genus 226. Stentjs, 

 46. basalis. Glossy black, with a few ochreous hairs, thickest on the face, 

 which is very rugose ; thorax ohovate, truncated at the base, very coarsely 

 punctured as well as the elytra, which are quadrate convex and twice 

 as broad ; abdomen not margined, rather slender and pimctured : base 

 of tibiae bright ochreous : antennae reddish-brown : length 1 line. 

 The only specimens I have seen were found on mud, in the New 

 Forest, in May, by Mr. Dale. 



Genus 229. Sunius, 

 5. unicolor. Dark brown, pilose, thickly and minutely punctured : thorax 

 reddish-brown, orbicular, the sides slightly compressed : elytra oblong, 

 sericeous : abdomen piceous, margins of segments and apex ochreous, 

 trophi of the same colour ; antennae and legs more ferruginous ; length 

 Inline. 



Fam. CoRTicARiD^, 



Genus 246. Monotoma. 



2. gracilis. Narrow, brown, slightly glossy ; head and thorax punctured, 



the former with acute basal angles, the latter with the anterior angles 



tuberculated, and a large shallow fovea towards the base, elytra reddish 



brown, slightly pubescent, with lines of punctures; antennae and legs 



bright ochreous ; head and thorax sometimes rufous : length g to | line. 



Mr. Haliday has taken this species at various seasons near the bay 



of Belfast. 



Fam. CERYLONlDiE. 



Genus 248^^. Teredosoma, Curt. — Ips. Oliv. 

 Head short, semiorbicular : eyes lateral. Thorax long cylindric, tapering a 

 little to the base : scutel minute, orbicular. Elytra scarcely broader 

 than the thorax but twice as long, elHptic, cylindric ; wings ample. 

 Legs short, compressed ; tibise dilated towards the apex, with a few mi- 

 nute spines ; tarsi longish, 4-jointed, 3 basal joints small ; claws simple. 



* Inst'cta Suecica, vol. ii. p. 443. 



