NETV' BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IX 1871. 59 



is large, transverse-quadrate, M'ith the eyes smaller and 

 placed more in front than in longipennis ; the emargination 

 of the hinder apex of the elytra, also, is less strong than in 

 that species. 



32. CoMPSOCHiLus PALPALis, Er., Col. March., i, 608; 



Gen. et Spec. Staph., 818 {Acrognathus); Kraatz, 

 Ins. Deutschl., ii, 896; T. V. Wollaston, Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., viii, 37. 



Readily distinguished from its sole ally, Acro(jnathuSy 

 by its much smaller size (If lin. Engl.). 



The genus, new to our lists, was established by Kraatz 

 (J..C., 895) for this and three other European species, on account 

 of their labial palpi having the second joint twice the length 

 of the 3rd, their ligula being tri-sinuate at the apex, with 

 sub-connate paraglossaB, and the five apical joints of their 

 antennae being incrassate. C. 2^ttl2?alis is testaceous, rather 

 shining, with the breast, forehead, and abdomen pitchy 

 before the apex, and the elytra strongly and regularly 

 punctate-striate. Its habitat appears to be wet dead 

 leaves. 



A single specim.en was taken by Mr. Wollaston during 

 the early part of last summer, by sweeping on the sides of a 

 ditch near Tonbridge. Further efforts to obtain more ex- 

 amples by that gentleman and Dr. Power were unsuccessful. 



33. Deleaster dichrous, Grav. 



var. Leachii, Curtis (^Lestevd)', E. C. Rye, Ent. 



Mo. Mag., viii, 15. 

 adustus, Bielz, Kiist. Kaf. Eur., vii, 48, 1846. 

 ? Erichsonii, Hochh., 1851. 

 I have recorded the occurrence at Scarborough of the 

 form of this insect in which the elytra are infuscate at the 



