68 COLEOPTERA. 



pying more than half the elytron, and from its long and 

 slender tarsi. It is shining black in colour, with yellowish 

 pubescence and rufo-testaceous antennae and legs, of which 

 the femora and the outer edges of the middle and posterior 

 tibiae are pitchy. In size and punctuation it resembles medium 

 individuals of hruiinicornis, Sturm ; but its claws are den- 

 ticulate at the base, so that it can only be allied to solidus, 

 111., and any comparison with 31. discoideus, Er., is un- 

 necessary. The outer teeth of its anterior tibia-*, are more 

 even and gradually increased, sharper, and rather less stout 

 than in solidus, 



54. Pediacus depressus (Frontisp., fig. 2), Hbst. ; Er., 



Ins. Deutschl., iii, 311 ; E. C. Rye, I. c, vii, 205. 



Distinguishable at once from P. dermestoideshyiisWgh.te.Y 

 colour, more shining appearance, narrower shape, longer tho- 

 rax (of which the lateral teeth are more pronounced, and the 

 4th or posterior denticle is situated considerably above, instead 

 of actually at, the hinder angle), more evident and less close 

 punctuation, more evident frontal depression, stouter legs and 

 longer antennae, of wdiich the 3rd joint is especially longer 

 in proportion. 



Eight specimens of this most interesting and curious 

 species have been taken during July and August, 1870, by 

 Mr. J. Ray Hardy, of Hulme, out of chinks of very rotten 

 oak, in a yellowish, minute, dusky fungus, like mould, 

 near Knutsford Park and Stretford, Cheshire. Also taken 

 sparingly, among British stores, on board a yacht at Dart- 

 mouth, by Mr. Wollaston in the same year. 



55. Cryptophagus Schmidtii, Sturm; Er.,Ins. Deutschl., 



iii, 350 ; E. C. Rye, /. c, vii, 206, 229. 

 Distinguished from C. setulosus by its rather larger size, 

 and less broad build, the less transverse sub-apical joints of 



