62 COLEOPTERA. 



marked species near Mickleham, Surrey, on the 23rd of June 

 last, in a nest of Formica flav a., beneath a flint. 



MM. Mulsant and Rey state that it occurs " at Hyeres, in 



April, beneath stones, in the company of ants." Dr. Kraatz 



informs us that it is found "near Berlin and in Schleswig 



under damp fallen leaves." 



5. Mycetoporus angularis, Mulsant; E. W. Janson, 



Proc. Ent. Soc, 5th Nov. 1860. 

 3l7jcetoporus artgulariii, Mulsant et Rey, Opusc. Ent. 



ii. 69, 4 (1853); Fairm. et Laboulb. Faune Ent. 



Fran^. Coleop. i. 493, 4 (1856); Kraatz, Natur- 



gesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 458, 3 (1857). 

 In its broad depressed form resembling 31. lucidus, but 

 considerably smaller, the elytra with a single discoidal row 

 of punctures only. 



I am indebted to Mr. Brewer for three specimens of this 

 insect, recently taken by him near Reigate, Surrey, and 

 which he informs me were named for him by Dr. Power 

 " 31. angulai'is," and with the descriptions of which species 

 they appear to me to coincide, save in colour, having the 

 posterior angles only of the thorax, and the apical margin 

 alone of the sixth abdominal segment, rufo-testaceous; whereas 

 31. angularis is described as having the lateral and posterior 

 margins of the thorax, and the entire sixth segment of the 

 abdomen, of that colour, but to these discrepancies little im- 

 portance need be attached, as the majority of the species of 

 this genus are subject to considerable variation in respect to 

 colour. 



It would appear that Dr. Power possessed, and had recog- 

 nized, this species previous to the communication of Mr. 

 Brewer's specimens, and I am informed that Messrs. Douglas 

 and Waterhouse also have examples. 



