218 STAPHYLiNiD.E. [Mycetoporus. 



a separate species, is rather larger than the type form, and has the head 

 entirely testaceoiis-red (in the type form it is always more or less infus- 

 cate) ; the fourth and fifth joints of the antennae are also said to he a 

 little longer, and the hind body is a little less strongly punctured. 

 L. vix 3 mm. 



There is a specimen of what appears to be this variety in Dr. Sharp's 

 collection, from Inverness-shire ; the colour of the head, however, 

 appears to be a misleading character, and even the colour of the elytra 

 occasionally varies ; I have a specimen taken by myself at Repton in 

 which each elytron has a large dusky spot on disc. 



m. splendidus, Gmv. Long and slender, somewhat fusiform, 

 shining reddish testaceous, with the vertex of head, base of elytra, chest, 

 and hind body, except margins of segments, more or less obscurely dark ; 

 head longer than broad, antennaj long and slender, only slightly 

 thickened towards apex, reddish, with the first joint testaceous, third 

 joint evidently longer than second, penultimate joints evidently longer 

 than broad ; thorax narrowed in front, narrower at base than elytra, with 

 the usual marginal pores ; elytra about a third longer than thorax, Avith 

 three series of setigerous pores on each, the sutural and intra-humeral 

 consisting of 5-7 punctures, without accessory series ; hind body strongly 

 pubescent, rather thickly punctured at the base of the segments ; legs 

 testaceous, with the intermediate and posterior coxEe obscure. L. 3|- 

 4| mm. 



Male with sixth ventral segment emarginate and ciliate on apical 

 ^border, seventh segment deeply excised, with the lobes of the excision 

 pointed and divaricate. 



In moss, haystack refuse, &c. ; common and generally distributed in the southern 

 and central portions of England ; rarer further north, and not recorded from the 

 Northumberland district ; Scotland, not common, Sol way, Tweed, Forth, Tay, and 

 Dee districts. 



DX. longricornis, Kr. {splendidus, var. a, Er.). This species is very 

 closely allied to the preceding, and is by manj^ authors considered merely 

 a variety ; it apj^ears^ however, to differ in several rather important 

 points : it is a little longer, and a little broader in the middle, and there- 

 fore slightly more fusiform ; the intermediate series of the elytra is 

 composed of from 7-12 punctures, and the hind body is less pubescent, 

 and more finely and less closely punctured at the base of the segments ; 

 the antennfe also are a little longer and more thickened towards apex ; 

 the excision of the seventh ventral segment of the male has the lobes 

 less pronounced and less divaricate. L. 4i-5 mm. 



In moss, haystack refuse, &c. ; rare ; Shirley and Purley Downs, West Wickham, 

 Guildford ; Littlington (Sussex) ; Horning Fen, Norfolk ; Repton ; Coleshill, near 

 Birmingham ; Scotland, rare, Solway and Clyde districts. 



HABROCERIN^. 



The members of this family are remarkable fur the development of the 



