150 ^J^iy- 



Taken sparingly at the end of April in marshy ground near 

 Cloghane, co. Kerry, Ireland. Ganglbauer records it as very rare in 

 Sweden and Germany. 



June, 1909. 



OCYUSA DEFECTA, Mitls. et Rey : AN ADDITION TO THE 

 BRITISH LIST OF COLEOPTERA. 



BY E. A. NEWBEUT. 



Among a number of Coleoptera recently sent to Captain 8aiutc 

 Claire Deville for examination, was a small Ocyusa-\\ke insect which 

 1 was unable to determine. Captain Deville returns it as Oci/usa 

 defecta, Rey, a species occurring rarely in Provence and Corsica. 

 I subjoin a translation of Mulsant and Eey's description of this 

 insect (Brevipennes, Aleochariens, 427) : — 



OcYUSA (Cousta) defecta, iMuls. et Rey. 



" Elongate, very slightly convex, very finely and rather scantily pubescent, shining 

 black, with the mouth and base of antennae brownish, the knees and tarsi pitchy- 

 testaceous. Head punctui'ed. Antennae ratlier short, the 3rd joint a little shorter 

 than the 2nd, the penultimate rather strongly transverse. Thorax sub-transverse, 

 scarcely narrowed in front, hardly arched at the sides, not quite so broad as the 

 elytra, slightly and rather densely punctured. Elytra almost square, distinctly 

 longer than thorax, sub-depressed, finely and rather densely punctured Abdomen 

 sub-parallel, very finely, slightly, and rather densely punctured, except on 5th 

 segment. L. 23 mm." 



In addition to its much less convex form and smaller size, the 

 specimen in question may readily be separated from 0. maura by its 

 having the 4th antennal joint distinctly transverse, the abdominal 

 dorsal depressions less apparent, and the sides of the elytra scarcely 

 rounded, and not contracted at the apex. It can scarcely be mistaken 

 for any other known British Ocxjusa. A tabic of our indigenous 

 species may be found elsewhere (Ent. Mo. Mag., xl, 251). 



Captain Deville has compared the specimen w^ith one taken by 

 himself at Nice, and seen by both Fauvel and Bernhauer. The single 

 British example was found by Mr. S. (x. Rendel among dead leaves, 

 in a dry ditch, near Tiverton. Devon, in November, 1908. 



13, Oppidans Road, Primrose Hill, N.W. : 

 June 9th, 1909. 



