THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 



SECOND SERIES-VOL. XXIV. 



[VOLUME XLIX]. 



EDITORIAL. 



lu consequence of his permanent residence abroad, Lord 

 Walsingliam announces, with much regret, that he finds himself 

 unable to continue his services as joint Editor of this Magazine, 

 and desires to withdraw his name from the list of our staff. We, 

 on our part, equally regret the loss of so valuable and efficient a 

 colleague, whose vacant place in his special department will not 

 readily be filled. 



DESCEIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF BLEDIUS. 

 BY D. SHARP, M.A., P.R.S. 



Bledius gulielmi, sp. n. 



Niger, ore, palpis, antennis pedihusque (his cumque coxis) flavis ; 

 prothorace vix transversa, crebius fortiterque puncfato, minus subtiHter 

 puhescente ; elytris prothorace paulo longiorihus, ad humeros angiistatis, 

 crebre suhtiliterque punctatis ; abdomine basin versus angnstato. Long. 4<mm. 



Hah. : Anglia bor. 



Closely allied to B. annpe (D. Sharp, Ent. Mo. Mag., xlvii, p. 31), 

 agreeing with that species in the clear yellow colour of the antennae 

 and legs, but distinguished by the coarser and closer punctuation of 

 the thorax, and its longer pubescence, as well as by the abdomen 

 strongly narrowed at the base. As it is, as it were, an exaggeration of 

 B. annm it is not likely to be confoimded with any other species. 



Described from three specimens found by Mr. W. E. Sharp in 

 Yorkshire, and named in his honour. 



A note by him on the circumstances of its capture will be 

 found on p. 14. 



Brockenhurst : 



December Sth, 1912. 



>fUART, 1913. 



