252 [November, 



Darker than B. nitithilum Marsh, and otherwise coloured, joint 1 

 o£ antennae only reddish. Head with more prominent ej'es, the frontal 

 grooves wider and straighter; prothorax similar in shape, median line 

 finer, hase less punctate ; elytra a little less rounded at sides, the striae 

 more finely punctate, 7 much more develojjed, sutural interval similarly 

 raised. 



Laos: Hat Tiang, 2 ex. {B. Vital is de Salvaza). Type in the 

 British Museum. 



October 1920. 



A SAPBOSITES {? PABALLELU8 Harold) IN BRITAIN. 

 BY THE EEV. C. E. TOTTENHAM. 



Two specimens of this little Aphodiid-heetle were captured by myself 

 on June 9th of this year in Arundel Park. They both occurred in very 

 dry rotten beech-logs (at a depth of a foot or more in the Avood) which 

 were infested with Dorcus jiaralleJopipedus and its larvae. I am 

 indebted to Mr. Champion for determining the insect for me and for 

 adding some particulars as to its distribution, etc. 



25 Dorset Eoad, Bexliill : 

 Octoher (jth, 1921. 



[The Aphodiid-genus Saprosites Eedt. includes a large immber of 

 species distributed over the warmer parts of the Eastern and Western 

 hemispheres, including Australia. The single representative appearing in 

 the European Catalogue, S. peregrinus Eedt. (1S58), the type of the genus, 

 is stated to have been found in abundance amongst orchids at Schonbrunn, 

 Austria, and it was subsequently recorded from Colombia. Mr. Totten- 

 ham's insect is related to various Tropical American forms, and it can be 

 referred provisionally to 8. paralleJus Harold, which came from the same 

 country. The series placed under this name in the British Museum, from 

 Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia, some of which were 

 captured by myself, vary greatly iniei' se, the Arundel insect being 

 smaller than any of them and having more prominent hind angles to 

 the prothorax ; but without comparison with the type, it would be im- 

 possible to identify S. parallelus with certainty. A. Schmidt (1910) 

 gives an enlarged figure of it in Wj'tsman's " Genera Insectorum " 

 (Aphod., t. 3, fig. 36). S. grenadensis Arrow (1903), from Grenada, 

 W. I., is another allied form. The specimen sent me for determination 

 by Mr. Tottenham may be described thus : — 



Elongrtte, shining', piceous ; head broad, very finely punctured, the clvpeus 

 broadly emarginate ; prothorax transverse, rather convex, scmewbat coarsely 



