NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1871. 75 



Soutlisnd, is in Mr. Crotch's collection. Dr. Sharp adds 

 that the species should be found, if looked for, on our 

 Southern coasts. It appears hitherto to have been considered 

 as confined to the basin of the Mediterranean, and to occur 

 chiefly in Spain ; and is intermediate between certain forms of 

 sputator and nstulatus, being more depressed than the former, 

 and more massive, larger, and more opaque than the latter; 

 it is also more punctured than either of them, with the pos- 

 terior coxoB more strongly dilated internally, and the protho- 

 rax more elongate. 



69. Ptinus subpilosus, Miill. (? Sturm, Ins. Deutschl., 



xii, 32; Boieldieu, Mon. Ptin., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 

 ser. 3,644; Thoms., Skand. Col.,x, 333); D.Sharp, 

 Cat. Brit. Col.; Ent. Mo. Mag., viii, 83. 

 Obtained by Dr. Sharp from Mr. Crotch with no locality; 

 also purchased by him years ago from Mr. Brewer. I, also, 

 obtained some few specimens of this insect from Mr. Brewer, 

 who took them, I believe, in Tilgate Forest, associated with ants. 

 Mr. Brewer's specimens are about the size of small ex- 

 amples of P.fuTj from which they can be at once known by 

 the much longer setae and coarser punctuation of their elytra, 

 the absence of the white tuft of hairs that fringes the base of 

 the thoracic medial furrow, which is not shining at the bot- 

 tom, &c. 



70. Cis ELONGATULUS, Gyll., Ins. Suec, iv, 627; Mellie, 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1848,274; Redt., Fauna Austr., 

 2nd ed., 573; Thoms., Skand. Col., v, 1^2 {Ra- 

 draule); D. Sharp, Cat. Brit. Col. ; Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 viii, 83. 



" Mr. Crotch considers he has Scotch examples of this 

 species." It appears to be of the size of the largest C.fes- 

 ^zvw5, linear-elongate, more depressed than its allies, somewhat 



