102 COLEOPTERA. 



tells me that he used to find it in moss near Renfrew, where 

 it was the commoner of the two forms. 



26. LiosoMUS OBLONGULUS (Frontisp., fig. 6, $ ), Boheman, 



in Schonherr's Gen. et Spec. Cure, vi (vSuppL), 



p. 316; E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., ix, p. 242; 



J. J. Walker, ibid., x, p. 84 ; E. C. Rye, ibid., x., 



p. 138. 



A single immature S example in my own collection, two 



others, of the same sex, taken by Mr. Walker near Chatham, 



and two females found at Caterham by Mr. G. C. Champion, 



substantiate beyond doubt the claims of this interesting 



species to be considered indigenous. M. Jekel's type in 



the British Museum collection (the only one to which I have 



access) being only L. ovatidus, I have taken the precaution 



of sending one of the above-mentioned British specimens to 



M. Charles Brisout de Barneville, who corroborates it as 



L. oblongulus. He has it from the French Alps and the 



neighbourhood of Lyons (the only localities given in De 



Marseul's Catalogue are France and Switzerland). 



L. oblongulus, compared with the corresponding sex of 

 ovatulus, is rather smaller, very decidedly longer and nar- 

 rower, with longer legs (and especially longer and more 

 curved anterior tibite), a more coarsely and less closely punc- 

 tured rostrum, longer antennae (the scape being especially 

 long), which are inserted nearer the apex of the rostrum, 

 straighter sides to the thorax, larger punctures on the elytra, 

 forming stri^, but not apparently placed in impressed lines, 

 untoothed femora, and stronger and more remote punctua- 

 tion beneath. In the male, which is, as usual, longer and 

 narrower than the female, the rostrum is rather longer and 

 narrower, the front tibiae have no protuberance above the 

 middle of the inner side, and the metasternal depression is 

 wider and better defined. 



