NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1871. 61 



and longer elytra, readily distinguish it from our other two 

 recorded species. It seems especial boreal in distribution. 



36. EuDECTUS Whitei, Sharp, Ent. Mo. Mag., viii, 73 



(described). 

 An E. Giraucli var. ? {teste auct.). 



A single example of this apparently new species was 

 found by Dr. Sharp in June last, under a stone on the 

 summit of Ben-a-Bhuird, Braemar. 



The genus Eudectus, Redt., new to our lists, can only be 

 compared with Coryphiumj of the British genera of Homa- 

 lides, from which it appears to be separated on exceedingly 

 slight grounds. The strongly angulated sides of the pro- 

 thorax of both E. Giraudi, Redt., and the above described 

 species (wliich apparently only differs from it in being 

 intensely black, instead of reddish-brown) will at once dis- 

 tinguish them from C. cuigusticoUe, the only British species 

 which it resembles. E. Giraudi appears to be excessively 

 rare. 



37. SCYDM^ENUS CARiNATUS, Mulsant et Rey, Opnsc. 



Entom., 1861, 67-9; D. Sharp, Cat. Brit. Col.; 



Ent. Mo. Mag., viii, 83. 

 British examples of this species have been determined for 

 Mr. Crotch by M. de Saulcy. I have for some time had an 

 individual, taken by myself at Shirley, which I have referred 

 to this insect. 



It was originally recorded by Mulsant as occurring in 

 October, under stones, in company with Formica b/'tcnnea, 

 Latr., at Avenas, in the Beaujolais mountains; and is de- 

 scribed as very near S. elongatuhis and ruhlcundiis, differ- 

 ing from both in its smaller size, its shorter antennae, which 

 are more strongly and suddenly incrassated at the apex, 



