1910.] 205 



Colonel Yerbiiry. It occurs in fungus on old trees [Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., xlii, p. 220 (1906)]. The unidentified Ahdem 'picea, Walk., 

 is not in the least likely to be the same species.* Like the allied 

 forms, it is extremely fragile. 

 Fig. 9 — Hypoplilceus linearis, F. — Taken in some numbers by Mr. 

 Heasler in the burrows of Pityogenes hidentatus, Herbst, in a 

 felled pine, at Oxshott, Surrey, in 1898 [Ent. Record, x, p. 176, 

 (1898)]. It has also occurred very sparingly during recent years 

 (1899-1909) in three widely separated localities in the Woking 

 district, always under the bark of pines. The insect is really 

 narrower and more cylindrical than represented by our artist. 



August 13th, 1910. 



CRYPTOPHAGUS POWLEBI, sp. Nov., A BEETLE NEW TO BRITAIN. 

 BY NORMAN H. JOY, M.E.C.S., F.E.S. 



I have had in my collection for a long time a series of a Crypto- 

 phagtis which, although somewhat resembling C scanicus, var. patruelis, 

 Sturm, seemed to me to be distinct. Some of these specimens have 

 been submitted to Herr Eeitter and Capt. Deville, who have been 

 unable to name them, and as the insect does not agree with any of the 

 allied forms known to me, I have no longer any hesitation in describing 

 it as new. 



My specimens were all obtained at Bradfield, most of them in dry 

 wood dust in old beech trees, in company with C. bicolor, Sturm, 

 Ptenidium gressneri, Er., and Trichopteryx montandoni. All., and one 

 or two on freshly cut wood. It is probably not a common insect, but 

 will be found mixed with 0. v. patruelis in collections. 



The following is a short description of the species, which I propose 

 to name G. fowleri : — 



Somewhat resembling C. scanicus, but rather broader, duller, and with the 

 elytra more parallel-sided and differently piinctui-ed. Ferruginous or reddish- 

 testaceous, without trace of darker colour on the elytra ; antennae with the 

 clnb smaller than in C scanicus, the last joint distinctly narrower than the 

 penultimate (in C. scanicus the last joint is scarcely narrower or as broad as the 

 penultimate) ; thorax as in C. scanicus, but with the median tooth smaller, and 

 the punctuation not so strong and much closer ; elytra dull, parallel-sided or 



* It may be noted here tliat Hallomenus f uncus, Gyll. (given as a synonym of //. axillaris, 111., 

 by Dr. Seidlitz), was incorrectly recorded as British by Stephens. There is nothing to represent 

 it now in the Stephensian collections. 



