66 COLEOPTERA. 



13. Cychramus FUNGicoLA, Heer, Waterhouse. Proc. Ent. 



Soc. 6th Aug. 1860, Zool. 7162 (1860). 

 Cychramus fungicola, Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. i. 408, 



4 (1841); Eric. Naturg. d. Ins. Deutschl. iii. 214, 2 



(1845). 

 Nitidula quadripunctatay var. h., Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. 



300, 22 (1827). 

 The close resemblance which this insect bears to C. luteus, 

 F., has probably led to its being mixed up with it in many 

 of our collections. Gyllenhal says of it, *' iV. lutea ut ovum 

 ovo simillima." It would appear, however, to be really spe- 

 cifically distinct, for while C. lutens is rendered opaque by 

 the dense pubescence which covers its whole upper surface, 

 the present insect, owing to its more scanty but longer pube- 

 scence, is slightly shining, and its form is more oblong and 

 convex. From its specific designation it might be inferred 

 that fungi were the special or at all events usual pabulum of 

 this species, but such is certainly not the case, as it occurs as- 

 sociated with C. luteus both in flowers and fungi. At Col- 

 ney Hatch, early in July last, I found both species in the 

 utmost profusion in the flowers of the common honeysuckle: 

 of a dozen specimens taken indiscriminately seven proved to 

 be C. Jungirola. 



14. Lathridius carinatus, Gyll. ; Waterhouse, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. Ser. 2, v. 175, 7 (1859). 

 Latridius carinatus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. 137, 17 

 (1827); Mannerheim in Germar's Zeitschr. f. d. En- 

 tom. V. 78, 13 (1844). 

 Easily distinguished from tlie ascertained British species 

 by its laterally incised prothorax and the obscure longitudinal 

 ridges on that segment. 



Taken by Mr. Wollaston, eighteen years back, on the 

 outer walls of a newly erected house at Spridlington, near 



