Argulor.'] adephaqa. G7 



underneath being smooth and impunctate, and by the fact that the striae 

 near margins of elytra ate mncli less obsolete than in the allied species ; 

 legs much darker. L. 5 mm. 



Common and widely distributed in p]ngl:ind ; Scotland, not common, Lowlands. I 

 can find no record from Ireland, but probably it has been confounded with the pre- 

 ceding species. 



(Sub-Gen. Adelosia, Stephens.) 



P. picimanus, Duft. (mnrra, Marsli). Depressed, pitchy l)lack or 

 brown, shining, winged ; head large, antenna} brown or brown red with 

 tlie iirst three joints glabrous ; thorax nearly as broad as long, cordate, 

 strongly contracted beliind, anterior margin ahuost straight, posterior 

 angles right angles, witli i)lain central furrow, and two depressions at 

 base, the outer one much the weakest ; elytra very flat, almost parallel- 

 sided, finely striated, with three large round impressions on third stria; 

 underside and legs ferruginous. L. 11-13 mm. 



Local, but not uncommon ; damp places under stones and clods of earth, &c. ; 

 common in the London district; Portland; Sheerness ; Cannock Chase; Stratfor.i- 

 on-Avon ; Tewkesbiuy ; Scarborouj^h and Askham, Yorkshire ; Hunstanton ; Newn- 

 hani-on-Severn ; Sandown, Isle of Wight; banks of Tees; not recorded from 

 Scotland or Ireland. 



(Sub-Gen. Pedius, ]\rotschulsky.) 



P. inaequalis, IMarsh. Eather elongate, depressed, shining, pitchy 

 black or I'eddish, antenna? and palpi red; tliorax ratlier strongly rounded 

 in front, contracted and sinuate behind, posterior angles sharp right angles, 

 base entirely punctured, with a large deep oblong depression on each 

 side; elytra somewhat parallel-sided, flat, strongly striated, the striai very 

 distihctly punctured, almost crenulated, the base without scutellary stria ; 

 legs red. L. 5| mm. 



Local, but in some places abundant ; common in the London district, and in the 

 Isle of Wight; SoutlKiid ; Lymington ; Swannge ; Tonbridge ; Shipley, neiir 

 Horsham j T>lewark j not recorded from the north of England, Scotland, or Ireland. 



(Stib-Gcn. Iiagrarus, Chaudoir.) 



P. vernalis, Gyll. lUack, shining ; larger, broader, and more con- 

 vex than the preceding ; head smooth, antennae and palpi pitchy, first 

 joint of antenna; and apex of palpi red ; thorax nearly as broad as long, 

 moderately and evenly rounded, scarcely narrowed l)ehind, posterior 

 angles acute at tip, almost right angles ; base punctured, with an oblong 

 depression on each side situated in a wide fovea, and another, much 

 smaller, near angles ; elytra slightly broader than thorax, somewhat 

 parallel-sided, with deep striae, which are feebly but distinctly punc- 

 tured, third interstice with three pores, base without scutellary stria ; 

 legs pitchy black. L. 5|-6 mm. 



Very abundant in marshy places, on the banks of rivers, under stones, at roots of 

 grass, (tc, throughout the greater part of Kn;;land ; Sfolhind, rare, Lowlands, Solwuy, 

 Clyde ; Ireland, near Belfast, local near Dublin, probably widely disiribnted. 



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