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at- base with a little spine; aecording to Thomson the anterior and 
posterior trochanters are slightly prominent in the form of a tooth. 
In moss, haystack and vegetable refuse, decaying seaweed, &ec. ; often by sweeping 
hedges, &e., in early summer; somewhat local, but generally distributed, and, as a 
rule, common from the midland counties southwards ; much rarer further north ; in 
fact | know of no record from any place in England north of Repton, Burton-on- 
Trent, nor has it been recorded from Scotland ; it probably occurs in Ireland. 
A. bimaculatus, II]. (Honius bimaculatus, Thoms.). Larger and 
more convex than any of the preceding species; pale testaceous, rather 
dull, clothed with fine whitish pubescence, with the metasternum and abdo- 
men, and a small spot on each elytron behind middle near suture fuscous ; 
the elytral spots are sometimes obsolete or almost absent, and sometimes 
are enlarged and meet at suture; head broad and rather large, rounded 
behind, very finely and closely punctured, with a more or Jess distinct. 
smooth raised central line ; eyes black, moderately prominent ; antenne 
rather long, reaching to middle of body ; thorax short, cordiform, as 
broad at least as the head, and about as broad as long, very closely and 
finely punctured; elytra oval, broad, and very convex, slightly nar- 
rowed behind, punctuation very close, but not so fine as on 
thorax; legs moderately long, with the femora somewhat dilated. L. 
4-5 mm. 
On sandhills ; very rare; first taken by Mr. J. Chappell at Southport, Lancashire, 
in the summer of 1859, and afterwards by Mr. Harris, of Burton-on-Trent, at 
Wallasey, Cheshire, in the same district ; it has occurred very sparingly. 
XYLOPHILIDZ. 
Although I feel very averse to multiplying tribes and families more 
than can be possibly helped, I have, after much consideration, adopt d 
this family of Thomson’s, to include the genus Huglenes, Westwood, 
which is now apparently considered as synonymous with Aylophilus, 
Latr., and is divided by Mul-ant and other authors into the genera 
Olotelus, Anidorus, Euglenes, and Aderus ; Lacordaire classes the genus 
with the Pedilide, but certain modern writers place it with the 
Anthicide ; the Pedilidz, as ordinarily constituted, are, at the best, a 
very weak family ; the Pedilina bear a rather strong affinity to the 
Anthicina in the facet of having the head strongly constricted at a con- 
siderable distance behind the eyes and in other points, but it must be 
admitted that they differ in certain other particulars, and approach the 
Xylophilide in their more or less emarginate eyes and in having the 
hind cox:e approximate ; Dr. Horn and Dr. Leconte solve the difficulty 
by including under the Anthicide all the Anthicites and Pedilides of 
Lacordaire, with the exception of Scraptia, which they place under the 
Melandryide ; if, however, Scraptia is to be placed under the latter 
family, then Euglenes certainly ought to follow suit, especially as through 
