82 COLEOPTERA. 



under fir-bark at Dall on the shores of Loch Rannoch in my 

 company. It must be very rare ; as the most determined 

 labour of both of us did not produce another specimen 

 during all our stay. 



Its linear parallel form, dark colour, and posteriorly 

 almost right-angled thorax — added to the simple middle 

 tibiae of its male — readily distinguish it from its allies. 



31. Carpophilus sexpustulatus, Fab. Ent. Syst. i. 



260, 1 (Nitidula); Er. Ins. Deutschl. iii. 137, 4; E. 

 C. Kye, Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. i. p. 259. 



I have found an old example of this species among some 

 of Mr. Edleston's Coleoptera sent to me for examination. 

 It was formerly in the British Collection of the Entomolo- 

 gical Society, and had the name '^ Kirby " attached to it, 

 printed on a pink label. The species is found in Germany 

 under bark, and may possibly be truly British. 



It has somewhat the appearance of Nitidula jlexuos^a or 

 ^L-jmstulata, from both of which, apart from generic differ- 

 ences, it may be known by its thorax being more distinctly 

 punctured, and contracted behind. 



From C. hemipterus it differs in having six spots on its 

 considerably longer elytra. 



32. Monotoma rufa, Redt. Faun. Austr. 377,3; G. R. 



Crotch, Cat. Brit. Col. ; id. " The Entomologist," 



vol. ii. 179,117. 



subquadrifoveolata, Wat. Cat. 



Mr. Crotch informs us on M. Aube's authority that the 



rufo-testaceous insect, with four indistinct thoracic foveas, 



found abundantly at the bottoms of hay-ricks near London, 



originally named quadrifoveolata, and subsequently (pro- 



