NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1864. 49 



Allied to E. laticollis, but may be distinguished from that 

 species by its short thorax, in which the posterior angles 

 are nearly rectangular, and tlie hinder margin is slightly bi- 

 sinuate. 



8. Aleochara fumata, Erichs., Col. March, i. 357, 6; 



id. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 166, 15 ; Kraatz, Ins. Deut. 

 ii. 93, 11 ; G. R. Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 7 Mar. 

 1864, Zool. 9011 (1864). 

 Found in Scotland by Mr. Morris Young, and also by 

 Mr. Waterhouse. 



It appears to be of the same build as A. hrevipennis, but 

 much smaller, black, with the sides of the thorax, and the 

 elytra, pitchy ; the thorax also is rather convex, and much 

 more rounded at the sides, and the elytra less densely punc- 

 tured, and rather shorter. 



9. Aleochara procera, Erichs., Gen. et Spec. Staph. 6\ , 4 



(Ocalea) ; Kraatz, Ins. Deut. ii. 97, 17; G. R. 

 Waterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 7 Mar. 1861, Zool. 

 9010 (1864). 

 Found at Reigate by JMr. Linnell. 



Pitchy, thorax and elytra rufo-piceous, or reddish j the 

 thorax with a slight transverse impression at the base. The 

 legs in this insect are very long ; and, as may be imagined 

 from Erichson's locating it in Ocalea, it presents a great re- 

 semblance to the species of that genus. It resembles A. 

 spadicea, but is larger, with the head more rounded, tlie 

 thorax a little shorter, and impressed at the base, with the 

 anterior angles more rounded, and the segments of the ab- 

 domen more thickly punctured at the base. 



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