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and rather depressed, with long robust antennse, being chiefly 

 distinguished by the wide and fine punctuation of the thorax, 

 of which the sides are but slightly narrowed in front, where 

 they terminate in a slight but distinct and acute point. In 

 size and colour it suggests A. ferruginea ; from which the 

 three-jointed club of its antennae will at once distinguish it. 



37. Atomaria Barani, Ch. Brisout, Gren. Cat. des Col. 



de Fr. Mat. v. 69, 87 (1863); E. C. Rye, Ent. 

 Monthly Mag. vol. ii. p. 156. 



To this species ( which has for some time stood in my 

 cabinet with the MS. name of Wollastoni) must be referred 

 the Hammersmith Marsh specimens referred to by me in 

 the last ^' Annual," p. 6S, and which were formerly con- 

 sidered by Dr. Kraatz (with doubt) as varieties oi A. fumata, 

 Erich. 



Independently of its more flattened and parallel shape 

 and finer punctuation, this insect exhibits an entirely different 

 habit and coloration to A. fumata ; being found in marshy 

 places, and the lightest specimens being light reddish-brown, 

 with the suture and apex of elytra darker, whilst the darkest 

 are pitchy-black with a slight spot at the apex. The inter- 

 mediate forms have usually a spot at the shoulder, and an 

 oblique livid stain near the apex. 



Mr. D. Sharp has recently taken a long series, of all 

 colours, in a marshy place at Eltham. 



38. Atomaria impress a, Erichson, Ins. Deutschl. iii. 389, 



19; D. Sharp, Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. ii. p. 157. 

 Mr. Sharp records the capture by himself of a single ex- 

 ample of this species at the bottom of a hay-rick near Lee, 

 Kent. 



