220 STAPHYLiNiDiE. \_IIabrocerU8. 



ginate or sinuate at apical margin in female ; tlie sexes are confused 

 by some authors. 



In moss, dead leaves, under dry cow-dung, &e. ; London district, ratlier common 

 and generally distributed ; Hastings ; New Forest ; Cambridge district ; Repton, 

 Burtou-on-Treut ; Scarborough; the species is scarce in the Midlands, and there is 

 apparently uo record from the more northern counties or from Scotland. 



TRICHOPHYINiE. 



This family consists of only one genus and one species, which was 

 formerly and is still hy many authorities included under the Tachij- 

 porince, but was removed from them by M. Pandelle, followed by 

 M. CI. Rey ; it is chiefly remarkable for its antennte, which are long, 

 slender, capillary, and verticillate-pilose, with the two first joints 

 strongly dilated ; they are inserted under the lateral borders of the 

 forehead, rather far from the eyes, in an evident cavity ; Eey considers 

 the family as transitional between the Aleonharince and the Tachyporince, 

 and as approaching the former in their projecting head, simply pubescent 

 and not spinose tibiae, and the fact that the elytra are not margined, 

 Avhile they resemble the latter in the method of the insertion of the 

 antennae ; from the Hahrocerince they are distinguished by having the 

 posterior coxsb transverse instead of triangular and prominent, and by 

 the absence of margins of elytra. 



TRXCHOPKVA, Mannerheim. 



This genus comprises one species, which is found in England, France, 

 Central Europe, and Madeira {T. Huttoni, Woll., being identical Avitli 

 our species) ; it is found in moss, refuse, dead leaves, under stones, and 

 sometimes under bark. 



T. pilicornis, Gyll. Black, somewhat shining, with the elytra 

 duller, sometimes pitchy, brownish, or even reddish ; upper surface 

 depressed and somewhat parallel-sided ; head rather broad, but narrower 

 than thorax, subtriangular, very finely and thickly punctured, black 

 with mouth parts pitchy red ; antennas as above described, pitchy red 

 or dusky, all the joints after the first two slender and elongate ; thorax 

 transverse, about as broad in front as behind with sides rounded, 

 posterior angles obtuse, thickly but distinctly punctured ; elytra longer 

 than thorax, very finely and thickly pubescent and punctured ; hind 

 body almost as broad as elytra, hardly narrowed until just before apex, 

 very finely and thickly punctured, with apex often reddish ; legs j^itcliy 

 red with tarsi lighter. L. 3| mm. 



Male with first four joints of anterior tarsi slightly dilated. 



In moss, dead Laves, &c., especially near fir trees; local; Wimbledon, Mickleham, 

 Forest Hill, Crystal PaLice (found in the windows occasionally in numbers, having 

 flown over probably from Shirley), Shirley (under fir branches in pits), Caterham ; 

 Horsham; The Holt (Farnham) ; Tonbridge ; Lincoln; Scarborough; Scotland, 

 rare, Tay district only. 



