208 STAPHYLIXIDJE. [^MeffacrOHUS. 



long, sparing, greyish pubescence, strongly and sparingly punctured, with 

 basal segments and apex of the others smoother ; legs reddish testaceous 

 with coxae blackish. L. 7-8 mm. 



Male with the sixth ventral segment with a small, smooth, triangular 

 impression, seventh longitudinally farrowed in middle, and angularly 

 prolonged in centre of apical margin, first three joints of anterior tarsi 

 strongly dilated. 



In moss, dead leaves, &e. ; also by sweeping ; rare, but rather widely distributed ; 

 Caterbam, Bexley (Kent), Strood, Weybridge, Bishops Wood, Chobham, Dalwich, 

 Hampstead ; The Holt (Farnham); Hastings; Glanvilles Wootton ; Barnstaple; 

 Sutton Park, Biriningliam ; Cannock Chase; Baddon Wood (Leicestershire); 

 Repton ; Sherwood Forest; Scarborough; Liverpool; Northumberland district, 

 rare, Gosforth Woods and near Gilslaud ; Scotland, rare. Forth, Solvvay, Tay, and 

 Clyde districts ; Ireland, Rathkurby. 



T/t. analis, F. (j'astaneus, Steph.). Resembles the preceding very 

 closely in form and colour, but is smaller and the red colour is not quite 

 so bright ; the last joint of the antennae is .usually brownish or dusky 

 y(dlow, and is always darker than in M. cingiilatus, and the fourth and 

 tifth joints are shorter ; the punctures are usually more numerous in the 

 sutural and marginal series of elytra ; the three basal segments of the 

 hind body (which are slightly impressed at base in the preceding species) 

 are quite even ; sometimes it is rather difficult to distinguish certain 

 examples by the description, but any collector who takes a specimen of 

 M. cingulatus cannot fail to distinguish it at first sight from M. analis. 

 L 6-6 1 mm. 



Male with sixth ventral segment slightly sinuate in middle of apical 

 margin, seventh furrowed and prolonged, first three joints of anterior tarsi 

 moderately dilated. 



In moss, dead leaves, &c. ; common and generally distributed throughout the southern 

 and midland parts of England, and generally distributed in the north j Scotland, not 

 common, but widely distributed. 



Itl. inclinans^ Grav. About the size of ordinary examples of M. 

 cin(julatus or slightly smaller, but at once distinguished from either of 

 the two preceding by its colour, which is testaceous red with the head, 

 breast, and hind body black, the apex of the latter, as well as the hind 

 margin of apical segments being reddish ; in form it much resembles the 

 preceding; the elytra are about a third longer than thorax, with distinct, 

 but not close, pubescence, and strongly and rather thickly punctured ; 

 the hind body is strongly and sparingly punctured ; the antennae and 

 legs are reddish testaceous, the former being usually dusky in the middle. 

 L. 6|-7i mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment narrowly incised at apex ; 

 anterior tarsi with two joints strongly dilated, intermediate tarsi with 

 first joint dilated beneath, and curved, intermediate tibiaj triangularly 

 thickened towards base with strong terminal spines. 



In moss, dead leaves, under faggots, &c.; occasionally in bottoms of haystacks; 

 rare; Reigate, Cooiube Wood, Birch Wood, Bishops Wood (lligligate), Dulwiuli, 



