190 Rev. P. B. Brodie on the Lias 



to light yellow ; however, in other respects it differs materially 

 from all the preceding species. The body is regularly oval ; 

 thorax and elytra convex, pubescent. The head is subquadrate- 

 ovate ; the eyes rather small, but prominent ; the neck is alto- 

 gether wanting. The antennse are as distant from each other 

 at the base as they can be, being inserted below the eyes ; the 

 club is three-jointed ; the joints increase gradually in size from 

 the third to the eleventh. The maxillary palpi have the second 

 joint slender, the third rather pear-shaped, the fourth minute 

 and acuminated. The thorax is very ample, semiorbicular, of 

 the shape and nearly the size of the apical half of the elytra ; 

 the basal angles are acuminated, and slightly envelope the 

 shoulders ; the posterior margin is prolonged in the middle to- 

 wards the scutellum ; the fovese or basal impressions are two, 

 and rather distant from each other. Scutellum obsolete. Elytra 

 with two depressions at the base. Tibia) straight; tarsi with 

 joints 1-4 subequal, or very nearly so. Mesosternal carina 

 middling. 



[To be continued.] 



XVIII. — Remarks on the Lias of Barrow in Leicestershire, com- 

 pared with the lower part of that Formation in Gloucestershire, 

 Worcestershire, and Warwickshire. By the Bev. P. B. Brodie, 

 M.A., F.G.S., Vice-President of the Warwickshire Naturalists' 

 Field Club*. 



During a late visit to the well-known Lias quarries at Barrow- 

 on-Soar, I was able to compare the various sections there 

 exposed with those in the equivalent beds in Warwickshire, 

 Worcestershire, and Gloucestershire ; and, although I could de- 

 tect no remains of Insects, nor even a trace of themf, the posi- 

 tion of the strata, and their lithological characters, are identical 

 with the true Insect limestones in the counties above men- 

 tioned. 



As Mr. Jukes has already described the lower Lias at Barrow 

 and the neighbourhood in ' Potter's Charnwood Forest,' it will 

 be needless for me to repeat those sections ; but it will be neces- 

 sary to give one not referred to by him, taken from an upper 

 quarry of Mr. Lee's, in order to identify the beds, — where we 

 have, in descending order, 



* Read to the Cotteswold Naturalists' Club, January 27, 1857- 

 t Although, in the short examination I was able to give the Barrow 

 limestones, I could discover no Insect remains, nor could hear of any 

 ever having been found> it is possible that a closer research would detect 

 them. 



