34 COLEOPTERA. 



23. Philoxthus cicatricosus (Frontisp., fig. 7), Erich- 



son, Gen. et Spec. Staph., p. 454 ; G. R. Crotch, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond.,7 Feb.,1870; Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. vi, p. 240; H. MoncreafF, ^^ Newman's Ento- 

 mologist," No. 75, p. 43 ; Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. vii, 

 p. 155. 

 Mr. Crotch has brought forward this South European 

 species, found by Mr. MoncreafF very sparingly under stones 

 and sea-weed on Southsea Beach, from June to October. 

 That gentleman appears to have taken it as long ago as the 

 spring of 1807, and to have unfortunately distributed it as 

 the commoner S.fucicola, from which it differs in its rather 

 larger size, much larger and flatter head, lighter and longer 

 antennae, ferruginous abdomen and distinctly and coarsely 

 punctured elytra. The punctures of the head are those of 

 the Cajius type exaggerated to the utmost, being widely and 

 shallowly scooped out ; and in Mr. Moncreaff's insect the 

 normal rows of dorsal thoracic punctures (which are from 

 Erichson's description evidently variable in number and 

 extent) are represented by two large shallow discal depres- 

 sions. These characters, added to its shorter and narrower 

 elytra, will serve also to distinguish this species from the 

 universal P. xanthoJovia. 



Erichson's locality for P. cicatricosus is Sicily ; but it has 

 recently been taken in the south of France (I have it from 

 Hyeres). I am indebted to Mr. Moncreaff for the splendid 

 specimen figured on the frontispiece. 



24. Xantholinus distans, Muls.; Ktz., Ins. Deutschl. ii, 



p. 639 ; E. C. Rye, /. c, vol. vii, p. 9. 



Two specimens, taken by myself at Rannoch (and one of 



which has been named as above for me by Dr. Kraatz), 



differ from X. tricolor j of which the type form also occurred 



at Rannoch, in being smaller, with the thorax reddish behind, 



