132 COLEOPTERA. 



quotes Gyllenhal, but omits all reference to Gravenhorst, to 

 whom, however, the species has been universally attributed. 



Kraatz considers Quedius atriceps, Steph., as the variety 

 with the thorax and elytra destitute of black markings — 

 " rufo-testaceus capite solo piceo;" it is, Mr. Waterhouse 

 states, a variety of Q. fulgidus, F. 



This insect is certainly partial to the society of Formica 

 fuliginosa ; but is, nevertheless, not a myrmecophilous species 

 in the strict sense of the term. I have taken it with the ant, 

 and beneath bark, far removed from any ant's nest ; it appears 

 to be a rare and exceedingly local species. 



55. Quedius l^vigatus, Gyll. ; Hardy in Murray's Cata- 



logue of Scotch Coleoptera, 122 (1853); Water- 

 house, Cat. Brit. Col. 23 (1858). 



Apparently confined to the northernmost portions of our 

 island; the first specimen which I had seen was sent me 

 nearly ten years since by Mr. R. Hislop ; it was subsequently 

 brought up to London in some numbers by Mr. Foxcroft, by 

 whom it was taken beneath the bark of firs at Rannoch, 

 Perthshire. 



I find that, through some unaccountable oversight, I neg- 

 lected to include this species in my summary of new species 

 in the Annual for 1855. 



56. Lathrobium rufipenne, Gyll. ; E. W. Janson, Proc. 



Ent. Soc. 6 July, 1857 ; Waterhouse, Cat. Brit. Col. 

 26 (1858). 

 Mr. Stephens's descriptions, Illustr. Mand. v. 268, 6 j Man. 

 Brit. Col. 405, 3229, refer indubitably to this insect, being 

 copied, the diagnosis verbatim, from Gyllenhal ; but in his 

 cabinet a male individual of the common L. elongatum has 

 served to represent it : taken near Bristol by Mr. S. Barton ; 

 at Clapham, near London, by Mr. Waterhouse ; near Graves- 



