Qucdins.] stapiivlinid.ti:. 229 



Q. microps, Grav. (cltri/siiriis, Kies.). Pitchy brown, with the 

 head Ijhick^ ami the elytra usually lighter, castaneous, or reddish casta- 

 neous, shining ; head moderately large, narrower than thorax ; antennae 

 short, ferruginous or brownish, with the base lighter, penultimate joints 

 strongly transverse; thorax about as broad as long, narrowed in front, 

 slightly broader at base than elytra, with setigerous pores on front of 

 disc ; seutelluni sparingly punctured ; elytra subquadrate, about as long 

 as thorax, rather finely and somewhat rugosely punctured ; hind body 

 rather strongly punctured, more sparingly towards apex, with the basal 

 segments hardly impressed, pitchy, with a more or less distinct iridescent 

 reflection, apex of segments more or less distinctly reddish testaceous; legs 

 reddish testaceous, with the femora and posterior tibiae sometimes a little 

 darker in middle. L. 4|-5 mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body broadly emar- 

 ginate in middle of apical border, with a smooth triangular space before 

 emargination. 



In rotten wood (oak, ash, &c.) ; rare ; Addington ; Esher ; Cobham ; Chatham ; 

 Croydon ; Loughtou ; New Forest ; Nettlecoinb, Somerset ; Cambridge ; Weston- 

 super-Mare ; Leicestershire ; Hunstanton, The species was first found in Britain by 

 Dr. Power. 



Section II. (Sub.-Gen. Quedius, i. sp.) 



I. Thorax with two dorsal series each consisting of 

 three punctures, one being close to anterior 



margin. 

 i. Elytra with uniform punctuation. 



1. Scutellum punctured; hind body ferruginous Q. tentealis, Ar. 



(truncicola, Fairm.). 



2. Scutellum smooth. 



A. Size large ; upper surface entirely black ; 



elytra with margins sharply testaceous . Q. LATERALIS, Grav. 



B. Size moderate ; elytra black, reddish, or 



pitchy, with margins not sharply lighter. 

 a. Antennae with base dark, more or less fer- 

 ruginous towards or at apex, often en- 

 tirely dark ; * legs black or dark pitchy 



red. 

 a*. Elytra black; antennae moderate 



with joints 6-10 slightly transverse . Q. mesomeiinus, Marsh 



b*. Elytra red. 



af. Thorax with punctures on sides of 

 disc, besides the usual one or two seti- 

 gerous punctures close to margin. 



(y.fageti, Thorns.). 



* 



In somewhat immature specimens the antcnnaj are sometimes entirely ferru- 



ginous, but the base is never lighter than the apex, and is almost always darker. 



