Sie7lUS.] STAPHTLINID^. 351 



Esher, Darenth Wood, Hayes (Kent), Mifkleham, Wimbledon, Caterham, Plumstead ; 

 Deal; Isle of Wight; Bournemouth; Salisbury; Hunstanton; Bromsgrovc ; Sutton 

 Park and Knowle, near Birmingham ; doubtful as Scottish ; Ireland, near Wuterford, 

 Power. 



This species is evidently the S. cerosus of Er., and is regarded as such 

 in the catalogue of Heyden, Eeitter, and Weise ; in this catalogue, how- 

 ever, both S. cerosus and S. annulatus are regarded as synonymous with 

 *S^. aceris, Steph., 7iec Lac. ; in Waterhouse's catalogue S. aceris, Steph., 

 is given as synonymous with S. imjjressvs ; it is most probable that 

 Stephens included both species under his S. aceris ; the insect named by 

 Crotch S. annulatus, which is the species we are now considering, was 

 long a puzzle to British entomologists, and is alluded to by Eye (Ent. 

 Monthly Mag. i. 91) as still undetermined when he wrote his mono- 

 grajjli of the Steni. 



S. Erichsoni, Rye {flavipes, Er. 7iec Steph.). A small and rather 

 depressed species, shining black, with strong and not very close punctua- 

 tion ; head considerably wider than thorax, eyes very large, antennae 

 testaceous with the club darker, palpi testaceous ; thorax at widest about 

 as long as broad, much widened a little before middle and contracted to 

 base, with a more or less distinct dorsal furrow ; elytra about as long as 

 thorax, or a little shorter at suture, strongly widened at apex, so that the 

 apical margin is considerably broader than the basal margin ; this is a 

 point that will at once separate it from the allied species ; hind body 

 broad, but considerably narrowed at apex, with rather strong margins, 

 rather finely and thickly punctured ; legs entirely testaceous, sometimes 

 with a slight fuscous shade at extreme apex of femora. L. 3-3i mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body rather deeply and 

 angularly excised at apex, sixth segment feebly emarginate. 



In moss, dead leaves, &e., usually in chalky places; local; London district, rather 

 common; Mickleham, Wimbledon, Caterham, Reigate, Croydon, Warlingham ; East- 

 bourne ; Bungay, SulTolk (W. Garneys) ; Repton ; Dunham Park, Manchester '; Cum- 

 berland, rare ; Scotland, Falkirk (Rye). 



S. pallipes, Grav. About the size and general appearance of S. 

 Erichsoni, but narrower, with the hind body longer and more cylindrical 

 with much finer margins which are almost effaced behind ; the whole 

 upper surface is much duller and more pubescent, and the punctuation is 

 finer and closer ; the elytra are not widened behind or contracted at 

 slioulders, and the legs, as a rule, are rather darker testaceous Avith the 

 slight pitchy suff'usiou more marked ; in the male the seventh ventral 

 segment only is emarginate. L. 3-3^ mm. 



Marshy places ; in moss, flood refuse, &c. ; local ; Loudon district, not uncommon 

 Wimbledon, Tottenham, Staines, Peckham, Dulwich, Lee, Eltliam, Egham, Shirley', 

 Tonbridge; formerly common at Hammersmith Marshes; Hastings; Bungay' 

 Holme Bush, Brighton; Barnstaple; Malvern; Barmoutli; Knowle; Needwood 

 Forest; Repton; Northumberland district, rare, Gibside and Ruveusworth Woods- 

 not recorded from Scotland or Ireland. ' 



