70 [April, 



I have niiicli pleasure in namiut^ the species in lionour of my 

 friend Mr. Frank Balfovir-Browne, who has recently discovered 

 H. nomax. The genus HaJiphia is a very difficult one. In addition to 

 the species registered by Mr. Edwards (Ent. Mo. Mag., January, 1911) 

 we have also, I believe, H. muUimaculatus, Wehncke, in this country. 

 It is only like H. heydeni, but is remarkably rotinid and very acumi- 

 nate behind ; it is considerably larger than heydeni, and has the inner 

 two or three series of punctures remarkaV)ly large. At present I have 

 seen only a single specimen, a female found liere last spring. 



Brockenhurst : 



March loth, 1913. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF QUEDIUS FROM THE 

 NEW FOREST, HANTS. 



BY NORMAN H. JOY, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. 



On August 16th last year I spent a few hours at Brockenhurst 

 collecting with Dr. Sharp, and captured a Quedius, coloured much like 

 Q. cruentus, 01., in an old owl's nest. On setting it I thought it 

 looked strange to me, so I expressed the sedeagus, but did not 

 again examine the specimen until a short time ago. I then noticed 

 that it differed from Q. cruentus in several particulars, and that 

 the sedeagus was quite characteristic. Dr. Sharp informs me that 

 he has known of this form as distinct from Q. craentug for nearly 

 30 years. He however wished me to describe it if I proved it to be 

 distinct from the allies of Q. cruentus. This I have satisfactorily 

 done and propose to call it 



Q. suBAPiCALis, sp. nov. 



M\ich rosembles Q. cruentus, but smaller and narrower ; the elytra arc very 

 diffusely punctured, distinctly moi'e so than in Q. cruentus. The hind margins 

 of the 5th and 6th (fi-ee) segments of the hind body are only narrowly yellow, 

 whereas in Q. cruentus the hind margins of the 3rd and 4th segments are 

 narrowly, the 5th broadly, yellow, the 6th being almost entirely so, except 

 occasionally in var. virens, Rottbg. The accessory lobe of the ajdeagus is dilated 

 towards the apex, in Q. cruentus it is parallel-sided throixghout. 



Di". Sharp tells me he has taken the species very rarely at Brocken- 

 hurst, close to where I took my specimen. 



The tedeagns differs from that of any of the species of the group 

 with black elytra. The Continental authorities have very much con- 

 fused this group by regarding certain species with black elytra as 



