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P. caricis, Sturm. — The somewhat flat elliptical form will at once 

 distinguish this species, which is sometimes of a brown colour. Found 

 on Carex rather commonly. 



P. .mbstrintus, Gyll. — A very short convex insect, which appears 

 to be rare. I know of no recent captures. 



P. championi, Guill. — Allied in form to both siibstriatm and small 

 specimens of hyhridus, but can be separated from the former by its 

 finely alutaceous elytra, and from both by the absence of the border 

 in front of the scutellum. It differs from hrunnipes, Bris., which 

 does not appear to be British, by its smaller size, shorter and more 

 convex form, and finer rows of elytral punctures. The abdominal 

 segments are narrowly ferruginous according to M. Guillebeau. 

 Most of the known specimens are from Shecrness, but there are 

 some in the Power Collection labelled " Madingley " (a wood near 

 Cambridge). 



I am very much indebted to Mr. E. A. Waterhouse for calling 

 my attention to the confusion existing in this genus, and for furnish- 

 ing mo with a large number of specimens for examination. 



12, Churchill Eoad, 



Dartmouth Park, N.W. 

 August I9th, 1907. 



CEYPTOPHAOUS SUBDEPRESSVS, Gyll., A NEW BRITISH 



BEETLE. 



BY NORMAN H. JOT, M.E.C.S., F.E.S. 



On August 4th last, when beating young fir trees near Strath - 

 poffer, E,oss, I captured two specimens of a Gryptophagus which T at 

 once recognised as being new to me on account of their very closely 

 punctured and dull appearance. I had little diflficulty in identifying 

 them from Herr Ganglbauer's work on the Coleoptera of Middle 

 Europe as C. subdepressus, Gyll., and have since confirmed this by 

 comparing them with specimens kindly lent to me by Capt. Deville. 

 Tn general shape and size C. subdepressus somewhat closely resembles 

 C. scnnicus, L., but differs from it in several important particulars. 

 The punctuation is much thicker, and the apex of the elytra is nearly 

 as strongly punctured as the base. The pubescence is shorter and 

 finer. The thorax is much more narrowly margined, and the callosities 

 at the anterior angles are smaller. The lateral tooth is in the middle 

 of the sides, and is small. Ganglbauer classes it with G. validus, 



