A pteropeda. | PHYTOPHAGA. 375 
elytra are also evidently less punctured ; the punctuation of the thorax 
also is not so close, and the punctures are a little stronger at the sides ; 
the legs are somewhat darker, L, 23-34 mm. 
In moss; rare; Caterham (Champion); Portsdown Hill, near Portsmouth (Mon- 
creaff) ; Hunstanton, Norfolk (Blatch) ; Bretby Wood, near Repton, Burton-on-Trent 
(Garneys) ; Ripon (Waterhouse) ; Scarborough (Lawson); Bollin Valley, Cheshire 
(Chappell) ; Ireland, near Armagh, rare (Johnson). 
A. splendida, All. (globosa, Foudr., nec Ill.). Of the size and 
shape of A. orbicularis, to which it is closely allied ; the colour, how- 
ever, is bluish-black, and the thorax is much less strongly punctured, 
the punctures being very scattered and obsolete ; the interstices of the 
elytra are also almost smooth; the colour and the punctuation of the 
thorax will separate it from A. globosa; the mouth is ferruginous, and 
the antennz entirely testaceous, their joints being thicker than in A. 
orbiculata ; the posterior tibiz are not dentate, but finely pectinate 
externally and ciliate at apex ; in the other two species they are dentate, 
L, 23-3 mm. 
Very rare; Whalley, Lancashire, August 4th—7th, 1858 (Power); also received 
by Dr. Power from Mr. Hardy, Manchester; Mr. Blatch also records it from 
Hunstanton, Norfolk, 
MNIOPHILA, Stephens. 
Only three species are contained in this genus, two of which are found 
in Europe and one in Ceylon; they are very small, strongly convex, and 
gibbose insects, and may be distinguished by having the three apical 
joints of the antenne enlarged and forming a club; the head is sunk in 
the thorax, and the forehead is marked with two deep furrows which 
cross one another and form an X; the thorax is transverse, and the 
elytra are produced into a deflexed point at apex; the posterior femora 
are only moderately thickened, and in consequence the power of leaping 
is much less developed than in many of the other genera; the spur at 
apex of posterior femora is obsolete or wanting. 
M. muscorum, Koch. Ovate, globose, very shining, upper surface 
black with a bronze reflection, under-side pitchy, more or less metallie; 
head finely alutaceous, antenne red ; thorax transverse, with the sides 
scarcely rounded, not margined at base, almost impunctate; elytra 
gibbose, broader than thorax, rounded at shoulders, with sutural apical 
angle mucronate, almost smooth at apex, but with regular rows of fine 
but distinct punctures towards base ; legs red. L. 2-1 mm. 
In moss, on stumps of trees, chalky banks, at the side of water-courses in woods, &e. ; 
very local, but common where it occurs; Birch Wood, Chatham, Faversham, 
Westerham, Highgate, Darenth, The Holt, Farnham; Weymouth; Stonehouse, 
near Gloucester; Bewdley ; Langworth Wood, Lincoln; Ripon; Scarborough ; 
Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, Solway and Tweed districts ; the 
species is usually found in the winter, especially in November and December, 
