270 THE entomologist's record. 



OLEOPTERA. 



Additions to our latest list of British Coleoptera. 



By H. WILLOUGHBY ELLIS, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



(1) Phlceopora transita, Muls. et Rey. — One specimen of this 

 beetle was taken by the late W. G. Blatch under bark at Sutton Park, 

 Warwickshire, and was recorded by me ("List of Coleoptera," Victoria 

 Hist, of Wanrickshire). The determination has been confirmed by M. 

 A. Fauvel. It is described originally as a separate species as follows : — 



" Allongee, sublineaire, subdeprimee, tres-finement et assez densement 

 pubescente, d'un brun peu brillant, avec les elytres rousses et leur region scutellaire 

 rembrunie, la boucbe, la base des antennes, le sommet de I'abdomen et les pieds 

 d'un roux testace. Tete finement et densement pointillee. Prothorax presque 

 carre, subretreci en arriere, un peu moins large que les elytres, a angles posterieurs 

 subobtus, nullement setoselle, non ou a peine foveole vers sa base, tres-finement et 

 densement pointille. Elytres subtransverses, sensiblement plus longues que le 

 prothorax, subdeprimees, tres-finement rebordees sur la suture, finement, et dense- 

 ment pointill^es. Abdomen subparallele, assez brillant, fortement setoselle, dense- 

 ment pointille en avant, un peu moins densement en arriere, a quatrieme segment 

 sensiblement impressionne en travers a sa base (Muls. et Eey, Goleop. de France, 

 Brevipennes, p. 441). 



It comes between P. reptans and P. corticalis. The elytra are 

 slightly longer than in P. corticalis, and are red, with scutellary region 

 darker, and the upper surface is more pubescent, giving it a rather 

 duller appearance. The specimen is now in my collection and is 

 probably the one referred to by Canon Fowler (Brit. Col., ii., p. 43), 

 who is of opinion that it is merely a variety of P. corticalis. 



(2) Mycetoporus clavicornis var. forticornis, Fauv. — This beetle 

 has been noted by the late W. G. Blatch as occurring at Sutton Park, 

 Hopwas Wood (among dead beech leaves), and Bewdley, and I have 

 taken it at Coleshill ("List of Coleoptera," Vict. Hist, of Warwickshire). 

 It is considered a separate species by Mulsant and Rey, but the slight 

 structural differences between it and M. clavicornis do not seem to 

 justify it. Canon Fowler refers to this insect (Brit. Col., ii., p. 217) 

 and says, "It is rather longer than the type form, and has the head 

 entirely testaceous-red (in the type it is always more or less infuscate). 

 The fourth and fifth joints are said to be a little longer, and the hind 

 body is a little less strongly punctured." My specimens agree with 

 this description. 



(3) Hadrotoma nigripes, F. — "By beating and sweeping by side of 

 wood, Tewkesbury " (Blatch). — This specimen is now in my collection, 

 and the late W. G. Blatch described to me the conditions under which 

 he captured it, and I see no reason whatever why it should not be 

 included in our list, especially in the absence of any evidence suggest- 

 ing its importation. The specimen may be described as follows : — 



Oblong, black, elytra depressed, not very shining, thickly and deeply punctured, 

 slightly pubescent with numerous raised setffi on the margins ; head much narrower 

 than thorax, thickly punctured ; eyes prominent ; antennte testaceous with club 

 fuscous ; thorax transverse, much narrowed in front, strongly sinuate and produced 

 in middle at base, closely and deeply punctured ; legs fuscous with tarsi testaceous. 

 Long. 3mm., lat. l^mm. 



There are tAvelve European species in this genus which comes 

 between A[e(/ato))ia and Tiresias. 



(4) Cryptocephalus pusillus ab. marshabii, Weise. — In this aberra- 

 tion the colour of the elytra is entirely black, with only the marginal 



