56 CATALOGUE OF THE INSECTS OF 



143. Arpedium, Ericlison. 

 1. A. BRACHYPTERUM : Ficeum, parum nitidum, parce pichescens, 

 capite thoraceque subquadrato parce subtiliterque punctatis, 

 hoc utrinque profunde foveolato, elytris crebre fortius 

 punctatis. Lon. If lin. 

 Erich. Gen. et Spec. Staph. , 859. — Omalium brachypterum, 

 Grav. Micr., 114, 5. 



Under stones, in peaty soil, near the summit of Hedgehope. — 

 J. H. 



Body oblong, sub-depressed, piceous or ferrugineo-piceous, 

 rather shining, abdomen still more splendent, with a sparing, 

 bristled, and rather distinct pubescence; head sub-triangular, 

 about one-third less than the thorax, slightly convex along the 

 middle, sparingly, finely, and obsoletely punctate, rather smooth 

 anteriorly, front between the eyes with two minute deep longitu- 

 dinal striae, and anteriorly between the antennae with two more 

 obsolete foveolae, black, the mouth piceous ; antennge slender, 

 scarcely thickened outwardly, about the length of the head and 

 thorax, rather pilose, and as well as the maxillary palpi rufo- 

 piceous j labial palpi testaceous ; thorax sub-quadrate, about the 

 width of the base of the elytra, a little shorter than broad, with 

 the sides slightly rounded, the base and apex truncate, all the 

 angles rounded, above slightly convex, sparingly and obsoletely 

 punctulate, the puncturing more conspicuous on the sides and 

 the posterior angles, a minute rounded deep fovea on each side 

 at the lateral margin a little before the middle, fusco-piceous or 

 ferruginous ; scutelltrm sparingly, finely, and obsoletely punctate ; 

 elytra one half longer than the thorax, wedge-shaped, broadest 

 backwardly, the outer angles rounded, rather flattish, with a longi- 

 tudinal depression on each side of the scutellum, thickly and 

 rather strongly punctate; abdomen still increasing in width after 

 the termination of the elytra, and then narrowed at the apex; 

 about the length of the anterior part of the body, shining, very 

 minutely thickly and obsoletely punctulate, nearly glabrous, the 

 sides broadly margined ; legs rufo-testaceous. 



I have met with this rare insect, in the collections of Dr. 

 Greville and the Rev. W. Little, who probably took it in the 



