80 CCLEOPTERA. 



and Lincolnshire (T. V. Wollaston), which agree with 

 Thomson's description of this insect, and also with a type 

 sent by that author. I am indebted to Mr. Crotch for one 

 of his specimens; and have also taken the species at Ran- 

 noch, and in the London district. It has been long sepa- 

 rated in Mr. Waterhouse's collection fi'om S. cadaverlinis, 

 which, from Thomson's description, it closely resembles ; 

 being, however, smaller, with the marginal impressions on 

 the forehead somewhat arched and pointing backwards at 

 their point of junction in front, instead of being simply 

 rounded ; the chin-piece {inentonniere) of the prosternum 

 acuminate, jnstead of being blunt or dightly notched at the 

 apex ; the mi^sosternum with a slight triangular notch be- 

 tween the middle legs; and the pygidiam more densely 

 punctured. 



28. HiSTER 14-STRiATUS, Payk. Faun. Suec. 1, 39, 6 ; 

 Gylh Ins. Suec. i. 83, 11; Thorns. Skand. Cohiv. 

 230, 4 ; G. R. Crotch, " The Entomologist," vol. i. 

 p. 311, 16. 



Mr. Crotch notes the characters of this insect, which he 

 states to be widely distributed, but not to occur in company 

 with a. 1'2-striatuSf which it closely resembles; differing in 

 havini;" a very abbreviated trace of a sub-humeral stria, the 

 pygidium and pro-pygidium more evidently punctulated, 

 especially on the sides, and the thorax with a few impiessed 

 punctures near the anterior angles. 



Mr. Crotch expresses his agreement with de Marseul's 

 doubts as to the validity of this species, having seen twenty 

 or thirty examples, affording nearly all shades of connection; 

 the punctuation of the pygidium appearing to vary insensibly 

 fj'om one to the other, and the additional stria being repre- 

 sented, in half of his specimens, by a row of punctures only. 



