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eyes in the ? ; the elytra are distinctly shorter in pro- 
portion to their width, and in the brachypterous ¢? do 
not cover the apex of the abdomen; legs shorter and some- 
what stouter. 
L.4mm. ¢,3} mm, ? 
Saline damp places on the shore near Forres, Reuter. 
C, roseus, Fall—About the size of brevis, but recog- 
nizable at once by the slender antenne: and the pink-brown 
or pink striped elytra. Head and pronotum in the ¢ grey, 
orin the 2 green, lateral margins and dorsal line of the 
latter pale ; antennee with the third joint shorter than the 
second ; pronotum very transverse, sides and base sinuate ; 
callosities very large, with a deep impression behind 
them; scutellum grey or green, with a pale dorsal line; 
elytra elongate, widest at the base in the g, with the clavus 
and corium inwardly pinkish-brown, parallel-sided to about 
the middle 9, pink on the clavus and corium inwardly, 
in both sexes pale whitish along the lateral margin; 
cuneus pale; legs pale, tarsi darker, 
L. 3$-4 mm. 
Common, but local, by sweeping in dry places, Reigate, 
Coombe Wood, Hampton Wick, Woking; Norfolk, 
Hdwards ; Epping Forest, Marshall; Weybridge, Cham- 
pion; Oxshott, Billups; Eltham, Douglas and Scott ; 
Scarborough, Wélkinson. 
HOPLOMACHUS, Fieb. 
Oval, very closely allied both to Macrotylus and Macro- 
coleus, from both of which it differs in the longer apical 
joint of the tarsi, which is subequal to the second, and from 
the former also by the longer claws, and from the latter by 
the more curved form and stronger basal tooth of the claws. 
There is only one species, whose black and brown colour is 
unlike that of any of its neighbours, 
H. Thunbergii, /l/.—Surface densely clothed with 
