Q [January, 



BLEDIUS DENTICOLLIS, Fauv. : A BRITISH INSECT. 

 BY H. F. FETEE, F.E.S. 



Among some beetles recently taken by my son, J. C. F. Fryer, at 

 Nethy Bridge, N.B., there was a Bledius I was unable to name. 

 Through the kindness of Mr. Walter Bevius it was submitted to 

 Mr. Newbery, who returned it with the following remarks : " This is 

 possibly Bledius denticollis, Fauv., an insect not yet in the British 

 list, but which Dr. Sharp took in Inverness-shire and intends to bring 

 forward. If not this, it is unknown to me." I have since taken the 

 insect over to Cambridge and shown it to Dr. Sharp, and he confirms 

 the determination. 



The Priory, Chatteris : 



November lOth, 1908. 



[This species is placed bj Q-anglbauer in his subgenus Blediodes. He describes 

 it thus : Very like B. opacus, but distinguishable from it by the right-angled tooth- 

 like, projecting hind angles of the thorax. Black or pitchy-brown, the elytra brown, 

 or reddish-brown with blackisli interspaces, the basal joint of the antenna, mouth 

 and legs yellow-red. Head narrower than the thorax, with a fine transverse furrow 

 immediately behind tlie eyes and a small central pore before them, faintly shagreened, 

 not or very distantly punctured between the eyes. Thorax quadrate, somewhat 

 narrower than the elytra, very feebly rounded at the sides, sinuated before the 

 rectangular hind angles, rather convex, faintly shagreened, moderately strongly and 

 very distantly punctured, sparsely pubescent, finely so along the median line, but 

 sharply furrowed. Elytra longer than the thorax, moderately shining, somewhat 

 strongly and closely punctured, finely and sparsely pubescent. Abdomen extremely 

 finely shagreened, shining, only before the hind edges of the dorsal segments sparsely 

 sprinkled with fine punctures, beneath less sparsely punctured and hairy. Hind 

 tibiae set with very fine spines on the outer edge. Seventh ventral segment in the 

 S slightly excavated, in the ? strongly produced in the middle. Length 4 — 4'3 ram. 

 Hub. : Mid-Europe, Finland, Caucasus, Siberia. Scarce, especially in mountainous 

 districts. — Eds.] 



IDIOCERUS RUTILANS, Kieschbaum, A BRITISH INSECT, AND NOT 

 THE SAME AS /. ELEOANS, Flob. 



Br JAMES .EDWAEDS, F.E.S. 



Idiocerus rutilans is like /. eJegans in the colour-pattern of the 

 elytra, but narrower and less robust in appearance, and otherwise 

 quite distinct. 



<J . Crowi! sordid yellow, more or less marbled witli dark brown near the sides, 

 with two black points near the front edge each about three times as far from its 



