252 STAPHTLiNiD^. [StajyJi [/limis. 



and anterior trochanters, black ; the male has the seventh ventral 

 segment of hind Lody angulariy emarginate and not sinuate. L. 12- 

 13 mm. 



In moss, under stones, &c., sometimes in company with Formica rufa; rare; 

 Faversham, Caterbam, Woking, Box Hill, Reigate ; Hastings; New Forest (in moss 

 at root of tree, and in sphagnum, May, 1886); Plynioutli (C. G. Bigneli); Llan- 

 gollen; Bewdley Forest; Sutton Park, Birmingham ; Northumberland district, very 

 rare, " Twizell and Hetton Hall, Belt'ord;" Scotland, very rare, Tweed, Tay, and 

 Sutherland districts. 



S. erythropterus, L. Dull black, with the elytra red, the front 

 of the head, and the scutellum, clothed with golden pubescence, and the 

 fifth, sixth, and seventh segments, and sometimes the second furnished 

 Avith a patch of the same on each side ; the apical ventral segments have 

 also a band at base ; head a little broader than thorax, thickly and 

 rugosely punctured ; antennae red, with intermediate joints more or less 

 obscure, sometimes only the two or three basal joints and the apical one 

 being red, penultimate joints slightly transverse ; thorax subquadrate, a 

 little longer than broad, somewhat narrowed behind, where it is evidently 

 narrower than elytra, anterior angles almost right angles, but blunt, 

 posterior angles rounded, thickly and rugosely punctured, with an obsolete 

 central raised line ; elytra hardly as long as thorax, finely, thickly, and 

 rugosely punctured ; hind body more finely punctured than elytra, with 

 sides somewhat rounded; legs red, with coxae dark. L. 13-16 mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment rather strongly, sixth very 



feebly, sinuate on apical margin. 



Under stones, in moss, &c. ; local ; apparently commoner in Scotland and Ireland 

 than in England ; not recorded from the London district ; New Forest (in sphagnum. 

 May, 1886) ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Devon ; Swansea ; Sutton Park ; Cannock Chase ; 

 llepton ; York ; Scarborough ; Manchester ; Northumberland district ; Scotland, 

 Lowlands, common, Solway, Clyde, Tweed, Forth, Tay, Dee, Moray, and Sutherland 

 districts; Ireland, Belfast, Dublin, Teeliu Bay Donegal, Armagh (common), &c. 



S. caesareus, Coder. Very like the preceding, but larger and easily 

 distinguished by the dark scutellum, the patches of golden pubescence 

 on the anterior angles of thorax and the hind border of the same, and 

 the fact that each segment of the hind body, both dorsal and ventral, 

 has a patch of pubescence of the same colour and character on either 

 side, which is often obsolete on the apical segments, and is more pro- 

 nounced on the basal ones ; the thorax also is more square, and broader 

 and more paralled-sided than in S. crytliropterus ; the sexual characters 

 appear to be identical. L. 14-20 mm. 



Under stones, clods of earth, &c., often on pathways and on the wing; not un- 

 common; commoner in the south than in the north, and apparently abundant in 

 Ireland in some localities ; London district, generally distributed ; Hastings ; Isle of 

 Wight; Swanage ; Instow, North Devon; Exeter; Birmingham district, but 

 apparently rare in the Midlands; Liverpool (rare, J. W. Ellis); Mnnchester (general, 

 at roots of trees, J. Chappell); Northumberland district (not of frequent occurrence. 

 Bold) ; Scotland, local. Lowlands, Solway, Forth, Tay, and Argyle districts ; Ireland, 

 Dublin, Armagh, Belfast, &c. 



