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is more deeply liolloweJ, the aiitennc^ are pitchy black, and the palpi 

 are, as a rule, darker at apex ; the thorax is broadest before middle and 

 not in the middle ; the elytra are shorter, straighter at the sides, and 

 more shining, and the hind body also is more shining ; the apex of femora 

 is much more broadly darker, antl the cox3e and trochanters are lighter ; 

 the tuft of hair between the middle coxae of male is not nearly so dis- 

 tinct ; the male characters of the seventh and sixth ventral segments of 

 hind body do not present any striking difference, but the whole of the 

 remaining segments show a more or less distinct longitudinal impression 

 with a small polished space on its hinder margin, and on each side are 

 furnished with a thin ridge of yellow hairs, forming two lines or curls 

 turned inwards. L. 5 mm. 



Marshy places, at roots of grass, in moss, &c. ; not so common perhaps as the 

 precednig, but generally distributed throughout the kingdom. 



Apparently we do not possess the type form as British ; it appears to 

 be duller than the variety, and to have longer elytra ; the variety, how- 

 ever, does not appear to be a distinct species, as some authors would 

 consider it. 



S. lustrator, Er. This species is closely allied to S. spectdator, but 

 is rather smaller, and may be distinguished by the colour of the palpi 

 Avhich are pitchy with the first joint and base of the second testaceous ; 

 the legs are more slender, and more suffused with pitchy in most speci- 

 mens ; the punctuation is not quite so close and the punctures therefore 

 are rather more distinctly separated, and the elytra are evidently a little 

 longer and slightly broader in proportion ; in the male the seventh 

 ventral segment of hind body has a slight angular emargination ; the 

 sixth segment is broadly and deeply emarginate, and is smooth in the 

 centre, and furnished on each side of the smooth space witli a rather 

 sharp keel ; there is also a slight central tubercle ; the other segments 

 are slightly depressed in middle and furnished with rows of long'jKibes- 

 cence taking the form of curls as in S. providus, v. Rogeri; from the 

 latter species S. lustrator is easily separated by its darker palpi and 

 different punctuation. L. 4|-4| mm. 



Marshy places ; in moss, especially sphagnum, at roots of grass, heather, &c. ; rare • 

 Esher, Wimbledon, Shirley, Woking, Richmond Park, Croydon, Caterham ; formerly 

 taken in Hammersmith Marshes; Parklinrst Forest, Isle of Wight; New Forest; 

 North Devon; Wicken Feu ; Scotland, very rare, Solwav district : Mr. Rye remarks' 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. i. 62) that he has a male from Wicken Fen in which the ciliatiou of 

 the under side is entirely absent. 



The following species of this section are distinguished by the shor 

 posterior tarsi, which are scarcely longer than half the tibire ; they are, a 

 a rule, considerably smaller than the preceding species. 



^ S. bupthalmus, Grav. {mJratulus, Eey, foveivcntris, Fairm. ?). 

 Black, rather dull, hind body more i^hining ; antcnme rather short, black, 



