82 COLEOPTERA. 



Mr. Bold (Cat. Ins. North, and Durli., Rev. of Col., 1871, 

 p. 91) mentions having seen another species of Pissodes at 

 Newcastle, which had come with pit-props from Norway. 

 This was JP. Gt/Uenhali, Schon., found in a wood-yard, and 

 exhibited with pride by a collier as '^ the Norway wood- 

 louse" ! 



77. BAGoiis NiQRiTARSis, Thoms., Skand. Col., vii, 190; 



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

 lutuleiituSf var. b., Gyll. (Mhi/nchcBmcs). 



" Cambridge," Mr. Crotch. 



According to Thomson, this insect is very like lutulentus, 

 but may be distinguished by its rather shorter thorax, which 

 is sub-dilate at the sides and narrowed at the base, with rather 

 obtuse posterior angles, and the disc more strongly and sub- 

 rugosely punctate ; the alternate striae of its elytra being less 

 conspicuously elevated ; its antennae and tarsi black, the 2nd 

 joint of the former being almost transverse; and its rostrum 

 punctured at the apex. 



78. Orciiestes sparsus, (? Gyll.) Fahroeus, in Schon. Gen. 



et Spec. Cure, vii, 375 ; H. Brisout, Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr., 4e ser., 273; D. Sharp, Cat. Brit. Col. ; 

 Ent. Mo. Mag. viii, 83. 

 melanarius, Kies., Ann. Soc. Fr., 1851, 645. 

 In Dr. Power's Collection (taken in July, 1866, near 

 Surbiton) ; confirmed by M. Brisout. 



O. spa7'sus is in the same section as (and rather smaller 

 than) ilicis; covered with black hairs, rather long and erect 

 on the thorax, and depressed on the elytra, which are 

 obsoletely banded with white tomentosity, and have a fulvous 

 sub-quadrangular spot behind the scutellum : its posterior 

 femora are obsoletely denticulated. 



