112 [May, 



This very small insect appears to be distinct from lancifer ; the aedeagus 

 being only one half the size it is in that species, and shaped like that of 

 aritzuensis. 



The thorax is brassy, the sides scarcely visibly yellow, the sculpture is fine 

 and the grooves shallow. The palpi are rather long and slender. The elytra 

 strongly impressed in front of the middle, the moderately large punctures 

 appearing crowded, and giving a somewhat rough appearance to the surface. 

 Legs long, pale yellow, claw-joint obscurely darkened at the tip. Flanks of 

 elytra scarcely, if at all, visible. Aedeagus (fig. 41) very small, with short 

 basal piece, apical section not broad, lateral lobes slender and acuminate. 



Five specimens. 



(To be continued.) 



ANCHONIDIUM UNGUICULARE Aube : A GENUS AND SPECIES OF 

 COLEOPTERA NEW TO THE BRITISH LIST. 



BY JAMES H. KEYS, F.E.S. 



♦ Plate I, Fig. 1. 



The type of Anchonidivm is Styphlns nnguicnlaris Aube, and is 

 described in the Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1850, p. 340, as follows: — 



" Ohlongus, piceo-ferrugineus, leviter puhescens ; rostro apice, antennis tarsisque 

 dilutioribus ; thorace ad apicem valde constricto, media carinato, dense et confuse 

 punctata ; elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis alternis elevatis. 3^ mm." 



Bedel, Faune Col. du Bassin de la Seine, Vol. VI, p. Ill, records 

 the transference of the insect to the genus Anclionidvmn, and on p. 92 

 of the same volume, mentions that it occurs in the " Environs de 

 Chinon (de la Ferte), Environs de Chateauroux (Aube), departements 

 de rOuest a partir du Morbihan," etc. He notes that it is not found 

 in the Seine Valley, and remarks further that " Le Styphlus rotundi- 

 collis Fairm.," 1881 .... ne m'a pas ■pa.ru distinct deV A. unguicnlare." 

 The beetle is figured by Jacquelin-Duval, Gen. Coleopt. Europ., IV, 

 t. 23, fig. 110, who says it occurs in the Pyrenees ( Kie sen wetter ) . 

 Mr. Champion (to whom I am much indebted for determining my 

 specimen, as well as for supplying me with references to the literature 

 on the subject) has two examples from Limoges which he has very 

 kindly given me the opportunity to examine. 



In A. unguiculare the opening of the scrobes is visible in front if 

 viewed from above, a character which places it, according to Fowler's 

 arrangement (Col. Br. Isls., Vol. v, p. 215), amongst the Curculionina, 



