Z [.lunuary, 



Taken at Beikos, in August, 1903, under a stone. Type in 

 my collection. The following Table will distinguish the European 

 species of the sub-genus Yidda : — 



A. — Head and thorax with metallic reflection. 



1. Larger and more robiist ; thorax widened in front. Head, 



thorax, and abdomen black. Length, 8-10 mm.... 



angusticollis, Fvl. 



2. Smaller and more slender ; thorax widened behind, reddish- 



broAvn ; abdomen brown. Length, 8 mm.... gracilipes, Diiv. 



B. — Head and thorax black, without metallic reflection. Sides of thorax 

 practically parallel ottomanus, n. sp. 



November 22nd, 1911. 



NOTES ON THE BEITTSH SPECIES OF LONGITARSUS, Latr. 



(.\ GENUS OF COLEOPTERA). 



BY J. R. LE B. TOMLINf, M.A., F.E.S., AND W. E. SHARP, P.E.S. 



(Continued from Vol. xlvii, p. 275). 



Sect. III. — Species nnicolorous, testaceous, brown, pitchy, or black (extreme 

 form of L. luridus) with coarse, confused punctuation. 



I. Antenna; short, last six or seven joints darker than remainder. 



1. Elytra furnished with distinct white cilia at apex... 



L. castaneus, Diifts. 



2. Elytra without cilia, or with apical cilia minute and ineon- 



spiciious L. luridus, Scop. 



II. Antennae long, entirely testaceous or darker only at extremity. 



1. Form larger. Antenna? as a rule entirely testaceous... 



L. ruhiginosus, Foudr. 



2. Form smaller. AntenniB with last five or six joints darker... 



var. ferrugineus, Foudr. 



L. CASTANEUS, Dufts. [Fauu. Austr. Ill, p. 260] ; Foudr. [Men. 

 p. 150] ; Kutsch. [Wien. Monat., 1863, p. 162 (213)]. 



Syn. brnnnens, Dufts. [Faun. Austr. Ill, p. 260], teste Weise 

 (Nat. Ins. Deutschl. VI, p. 950) and Bedel [Col. Bass. Seine, V. 

 pp. 190, 308]. 



In form a regular oval, entirely of a red brown colour, with suture often 

 narrowly darker. Antennte : testaceovis, with last five or six joints slightly 

 darker. Thorax : bordered, transverse, distinctly alutacoous, punctuation dis- 

 tinct, rather remote, and much finer than that of elytra, Elytra : punctuation 



