98 t'^P"!- 



suture at the junction of the middle and posterior thirds, followed by a very ill- 

 defined brownish patch; pubescence yellow, a few scale-like semi-erect hairs 

 scattered over the posterior third. Legs reddish-testaceous. Length — 5 mm. 



A single specimen taken under th(^ bark of a pine tree at 

 Prinkipo, an island in the Sea of Marmara, in April, 1902. It differs 

 at once from ^S*. pimctatissima by its narrow, elongate and deprt-ssed 

 form, the double punctuation of the thorax and elytra, and the 

 absence of any black spots. From S. (/risen it is distiuguislied by its 

 narrow, elongate, depressed form, the coarser punctuation (whicli is 

 double), and by the absence of delinite black spots on the elytra ; the 

 colour also is ferruginous. 



From is. ohlonga, Bris., it may be known by its more depressed 

 form, and the absence of black spots on the thorax and elytra 

 {8. oblonija has the elytral spots larger and blacker than 8. grisen). 



The following table will serve to differentiate the species : — 



A. — Form broader, punctuation simple. 



1. — Punctuation coarser, average size larger; anterior tibise in c? ^^- 



gularly curved punctatissima, 111. 



2. — Punctuation finer, average size smaller ; anterior tibiae in S simple... 



grisea, L. 

 B.— Form narrower, punctuation double. 



1. — Moi'e convex, black spots on elytra large and well marked ... 



oblonija, Bris. 

 2. — Depressed, no black well-u)arked spots on elytra elongata, n. sp. 



H.M.S. " Harrier," Aden: 



November 17th, 1902. 



Culeoptera in Berkshire. — It is just two years since I first started collecting 

 Coleoptera in Berkshire, and I find now tliat I have identified about 1U5U species, 

 and have some 300 more specimens, chiefl3' HunudotcB, to determine. Among my 

 captures I tiiink the following species are sufficiently uncommon to be worth 

 recording: — Ilelophorus dorsalis. Marsh., Aleochara mycetophaga, Kr., Oligota 

 parva, Kr., Quedius lotigicornis, Kr., Q,. brevicornis, Thorns., Ucypus fuscatus, 

 Grav. (one specimen each of the last three from the same wood), Scopaus sulcicollin, 

 Steph. (three specimens from a sand-pit), Steiius atraltilu.^, Er., Curuphiutn 

 angwsticolle, Steph., Pseudopsis sulcata, Newm., Clambus minutus, Sturm, Aga- 

 thidium rotundatum, G-yll., A. nigrinum, Sturm, Ani.iotoma oblonga, Er., Agarico- 

 phagus cephalotes, Schmidt (these last three by sweeping very wet grass in late 

 autumn), Ptenidium turgidiim, Thorns., Epurcea decemguttata, F., i\ diffuxa, Bris., 

 Cryptarcha strigata. F., C. imperialis, F. (the last tlu*ce common at the exuding 

 sap of Cossus-infected trees), Thalyora sericea, Sturm, Meligethes umbrosus, Sturm, 

 Monotonia brevicoUis, Aube, Diplocvelus fagi, Guer. (two specimens under bark, 

 one, however, slipped through my fingers), Antherophagus silaceus, Jlerbst) 



