LafJirohium.] staphtlinidj-:. 303 



oibiciilar, fmoly ami tliickly piincturod, mtlicr more Rparin^fl^ on disc • 

 autoniioe lono- ami sloiulor, l)rownis]i. with base testaceous, with all the 

 joints elongate ; thorax oblong, a little narrower than elytra, rather 

 strongly punctured, more thickly at sides, with a more or less indistinct 

 smooth central line ; elytra variable, longer than, or as long as, thorax ; 

 hind body very finely and thickly punctured ; legs testaceous or reddish 

 testaceous, with the coxae darker. L. 5^-6 mm. 



Seventh dorsal segment of hind Ijody rounded in male, strongly and 

 sharply produced in female, seventh ventral segment strongfy and 

 angularly excised in male, sinuate on each side and produced in female, 

 the produced part being truncate and ciliate. 



_ Marshy places ; in moss, at roots of grass, &c. ; common and senerally distributed 

 m the bouth and Midlands ; rarer further north ; in Scothuid, however/it is common 

 111 sphagnum ui the Solway, Forth, and Tay districts; there is no record, apparently 

 of Its capture in England further north than Cheshire and Yorkshire, but it almost 

 certainly occurs in the northern counties. 



The variety in which the yellow spots at apex of elytra are wanting is 

 rarer than the type ; it usually has the legs somewhat darker ; it occ^urs 

 in the Isle of Wight and other localities ; it is not named and may be 

 called V, immanilatum. 



Erichson and other authors unite L. termiwdum with L. quadmtum, 

 but they are quite distinct in form, colour of legs, sexual differences, &c.' 



Xi. pallidum, JTord. (Jansnni, Crotch). Eather narrow and linear 

 testaceous red, front parts lighter and shining, hind body darker and dull • 

 head subtriangular, as broad as thorax, rather finely and very diftusely 

 punctured; antenna 'testaceous red, long and not very slender, joints 

 4-10 gradually shorter, the penultimate being only slightly longer than 

 broad; thorax oblong, almost as broad as elytra, more thickly punctured 

 than head, with a distinct smooth longitudinal central line ; elytra vari- 

 able much shorter than, or nearly as long as, thorax, rather finely and 

 thickly punctured ; hind body with close pubescence, very thickly and 

 finely punctured ; legs reddish-testaceous. L. 4f-5i mm. 



Male with the third to the sixth ventral segments impressed in middle 

 seventh furrowed and angularly excised in middle of apical margin the 

 sides of the excision being produced in the form of two sharp teelh ' and 

 the apical margin on each side of these being sinuate. ' 



In moss, flood refuse, &c. ; local and usually very rare ; West Wickham • Totten- 

 liam; Amberley; Shipley, near Horsham (Gorhain, in numbers); Lowestoft- Isle of 

 n ight. ' 



L. Javsoni is a darker form of this species with longer elytra ; as before 

 pointed out the variation of the elytra is very usual in this genus. 



If. multipunctum, Grav. (r. p>/n'>^aicu7n, Fairni., v. sfn'atojmnrta- 

 ium, Ivies.). Narrow and linear, colour very variable, entirely pitch- 

 black, or black or pitchy brown with the elytra red, or entirely brownish 

 red with the hind body, except apex, darker ; head subovate, a little 



