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strongly, transverse; tlio sexual characters arc much the same. L. G-G^ 

 mm. 



In moss, niulor stones, &c., and also in rotten wood, especially in dump places ; not 

 common in Eugland; Higbgate; Birdbrook (Essex); Sydenb:im; IlFraconibe; Dudley; 

 Bristol; Sbewsbury; Kepton ; Maueliestcr district; Nortbuniberland district, rare, 

 in woods; Scotland, common, Solway, Fortb, Tay, Dee, Sutherland, and probably all 

 the other districts ; Ireland, Killarney. 



This species appears to be chiefly found in wooded and hilly or moun- 

 tainous districts. 



Q. suturalis, Kies. {marginalis, Thorns., humeralls, Steph.). Pitchy- 

 brown, shining, sometimes altogether or in part slightly reddish, with the 

 head black, and the suture, posterior margin, and a longer or shorter 

 humeral patcli on elytra yellowish or reddish testaceous, as well as the apex 

 of segments of hind body ; sometimes the elytra are almost entirely testa- 

 ceous ; head roiuided, narrower than thorax, antennae rather long and 

 slender, lighter or darker reddish-testaceous, with the base usually ligliter, 

 penultimate joints not transverse, about as long as broad ; thorax narro'iVed 

 in front, hardly as broad at base as elytra, with the usual series of three 

 punctures on front of disc ; elytra about as long as, or slightly longer 

 than thorax, distinctly, rather thickly, and somewhat rugosely punctured 

 (the punctuation differing somewhat in different specimens); hind body 

 gradually and strongly narrowed behind, rather finely and not very closely 

 punctured, except at the base of the -first segments ; legs testaceous. 

 L. 6 mm. 



In moss, dead leaves, &c. ; local; London district, not uncommon; Chatham, 

 Entield, Lee, Eltham, Blackheath, Croydon, Putney, Mickleham, Loughton, Garshal- 

 ton, Sanderstead ; Dorking; Whitstable ; Margate; Hastings; Littlington, Sussex ; 

 Repton ; Leamington; Manchester district (VVhatcote, Bowden, &c. ); Northumber- 

 land district, rare; Scotland, Lowlands, rare, Clyde and Forth districts. 



Q. scintillans, Grav. {fuscipes, W. C). A small species, which 

 might for some reasons be more advantageously classed with the next 

 section, and is in some respects intermediate ; the eyes, however, are 

 decidedly less in size and less prominent than in Rapliirus ; shining 

 black bronze, with the elytra lighter, and the hind body duller ; head 

 narrow^er than thorax, rounded, with two large punctures between eyes 

 besides the juxta-ocular punctures ; antennro short and rather thick, 

 pitchy-red or brownish with the first joint lighter, penultimate joints 

 transverse ; thorax about as broad as elytra, together with head very 

 shining, sometimes obscurely greenish-bronze ; scutellum smooth and 

 shining, occasionally Avith two or three punctures ; elytra a little longer 

 than thorax, not closely and somewhat coarsely punctured ; hind body 

 rather strongly narrowed behind, finely and thickly punctured and rather 

 dull, thickly pubescent, and more or less iridescent, with the ai)ical 

 margin of the hinder segments more or less obscurely brownish ; legs 

 testaceous with the coxae and often the tibiae, and base of femora, darker 

 L. 5. mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hhid body feebly and 



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