Gyrophcrna.'] stapttylinid.e. 



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Its whole surface; elytra very short audtmnsverso, thickly and fiiielv 

 punctured ; hind body closely and very Hnely pun.'tured. L 1 nun 



Male with the seventh segment of liind ])ody terminated by two 

 widely separated spines, which are broad at base, and sharp and con- 

 vergent at apex. ^ 



In fungi, and under bark of old fnngus-grown stumps; very local- Thornton 

 Reservo.r. near Markfield, and (iu.nl.y, Leicestershire ; Wieken Fen S Iford Pr io? 

 Sfnf H ' '' "k'. L'"*--^'".^'" '»'>u"dance, in boleti growing on an dd sfnmp by t ,« 

 s>deof the road between Lincoln and Langworth) ; Nortlunnberland district/v -y 

 me ; the only southern locality recorded is Littlington, Sussex, and it has not bee i 

 found in the London district or in Scotland. , ^ ^^ not ocen 



G. strictula, Er. {Phcenogyra sirictula, Muls. et V.gj, 2ioUta, Grav 

 var. cat. H. h. W., hrerieomis, Rey). Entirely pitchy-black, and in 

 general appearance resembling the preceding; the head, however, is much 

 less transverse and less suddenly contracted behind the eyes which are 

 not nearly so prominent ; the head, thorax, and elytra are very dis- 

 tinctly alutaceous and therefore comparatively dull : antenna3 and le-s 

 testaceous ; thorax with very indistinct traces of the two dorsal rows of 

 punctures which are sometimes quite obsolete, except for two rather stron- 

 punctures on the posterior third ; elytra a little longer in proportion to 

 the thorax than in G. manca, with very minute scattered punctures • 

 hmd body almost smooth, except that the sides of each segment are 

 very finely and obsoletely punctured ; the shoulders of elytra and ai.ex 

 of hind body are often reddish. L. 1| mm. 



Male with four or six short ridges on sixth segment of hind bodv 

 seventh segment armed at apex with two sharp, rather stout, teeth 

 convergent and enclosing a broad emargination. 



In boleti ; local ; Maidstone, Micklebn.n, Epping Forest, Darentb Wood ; The Holt 

 abundant in Dadalea quercma, growing on oak-stumps near Eccles " (Sharp). 



The most local species of the genus Gywphcma are often exceedin-lv 

 abundant where they occur, and the contents of one or two boleti are 

 otten enough to supply most of our collections. 



AGARICOCHARA, Kraatz. 



This genus is exceedingly closely allied to Gyrophmia, and was sepa- 

 rated from it by Kraatz chiefly on the ground that the ligula is bifid 

 whereas m Gyrophama it is entire ; there is also a slight difference in' 

 the shape of the mesosternum, and the intermediate coxa3 are less oer- 

 ceptibly distant, and the elytra are distinctly longer in proportion ; the 

 genus contains two European species. 



A. laevicollis, Kr Ferruginous-red, with the head, postero-external 

 angles of elytra, and the hind body (except the apex of the segments 

 brownish or pitchy ; head less transverse, and with eyes less prominent 



