154 [July. 



ON A NEW SPECIES OF APION. 



BY E. A. NEWBERY. 



Apion SELOUSI, sp. UOV. * 



Entirely black, except base of scape, scantily pubescent. Rostrum subulate, 

 feebly curved, nearly smooth, slightly constricted at insertion of antennae, 

 strongly so at the base, with a well marked truncated triangular tooth 

 on the under side between the bases of the antennae. Antennae black, 

 with base of scape reddish, inserted at about the basal third of rostrum. 

 Head shining, about as long as broad, striated between the eyes, and strongly 

 punctiired behind them, scarcely perceptibly granulate in the inter- 

 spaces. Eyes oval, only moderately prominent. Thorax rather dull, longer 

 than broad, narrowed from base to apex, strongly punctured, interspaces 

 minutely granvilate, with a central fiirrow reaching from the bisinviate base to 

 near the apex, posterior angles blunt but rather projecting. Scutellum 

 furrowed. Elytra rather dull, with base broader than that of thorax, strise 

 deeply punctured with flat interstices, which are about twice as broad as the 

 striae and finely shagreened. Legs black, pubescent, first joint of anterior 

 tarsi m\ich longer than second. Length, 2f mm. 



This insect can be readily distinguished from any other in the 

 group with subulate rostrum, by the strong constriction in front of 

 the eyes, and tlie remarkable tooth between the bases of the antennae. 

 It has no resemblance to any British Apion. Capt. Deville, who has 

 seen the insect, remarks that "it is near to A. cerdo, but differs from 

 all European species in its group by its flat eyes. It is quite imknown 

 to me." 



I have named the insect after my friend, Dr. C. F. Selous, who 

 took a single (cj?) specimen by sweeping mixed herbage, near the 

 edge of the cliff, at Barton-on-Sea, on October 18th, 1908. 



13, Oppidans Road, N.W. : 

 May 9th, 1913. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW STAPHYLINIDS. 

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



Atheta britteni, sp. nov. 



Depressed, parallel-sided, very finely punctured and pubescent; head and 

 hind body, except apex, black, thorax pitchy or brown, elytra and apex 

 of hind body yellowish, antennae yellow, slightly darker towards apex, palpi and 

 legs yellow ; head a little narrower than thorax, suborbicular ; antennae with 4th 

 and 5th joints quadrate or slightly transverse, penultimate joints strongly 

 transverse ; thorax about as broad as elytra, transverse, not much narrowed 

 behind, with a shallow longitudinal channel in the middle, very finely shagreened 



