64 Mr. F. Holme’s Notice of Coleopterous Insects. 
*Remus sericcus mihi. — One specimen on the beach at St. Mary’s. 
( Vide infra.) 
♦Lathrobium punctatostriatum. — Under stones near the day-mark, 
St. Martin’s 
Lesteva planipennis. — Passim. 
The insect I have above conditionally named Remus sericeus, is 
one which I have in vain sought for in collections, and which I 
cannot satisfactorily reduce to any genus described in Mr. Ste- 
phens’s Illustrations. I was told, I forget by whom, that Mr. Rudd 
had taken an insect resembling it, in Yorkshire. Mr. Stephens, on 
a cursory view of the specimen one morning at Somerset House, 
thought it allied to Otliius subiliformis, but it is at once distin- 
guished from Otliius by its closely punctate-thorax, which separates 
it from all the genera of Stephens’s family Staphylinidce, except 
Achenium, Lathrobium, and Cryptobium, from the first and last of 
which its non-geniculated antennae separate it, as its depressed 
body, untoothed tibiae, and conic-acuminate terminal joint of palpi, 
do from Lathrobium. Under these circumstances, I venture, with 
great diffidence, to propose it as a new genus, to be characterised 
as follows : — 
Remus. 
Antennce not geniculate ; the basal joint longest and stoutest ; the 
two next nearly equal, obconic ; the seven next nearly trans- 
verse, equal ; the terminal longer, acute. Palpi with the basal 
joints nearly equal, obconic ; the terminal rather longer, fili- 
form, acuminate at the point. Head oblong, ovate. Eyes la- 
teral, small. Thorax rectangular, elongate, thickly punctate. 
Body depressed. Abdomen deeply margined. Limbs moderate, 
without teeth. Anterior tarsi moderately dilated. 
Remus sericeus. 
Length 2£- lines : dull black, with an aureous pubescence on the 
elytra and abdomen ; mouth rufous ; antennae and limbs deep 
rufous or piceo-rufous, pubescent ; head and thorax distinctly 
and rather deeply punctured, with a smooth spot on the vertex, 
and another just above the labrum ; thorax with a smooth 
somewhat raised dorsal callus throughout ; thorax and head 
joined by a distinct neck as in Gyrohypnus ; elytra flat, qua- 
drate, very minutely and closely punctured ; abdomen linear, 
deeply margined, punctured like the elytra. 
