SteHUS.'] STAPHTLINID^. 3r)3 



third, fourth, and fifth segments are slightly depressed in the middle of 

 the hinder margin, L. 4^-5 mm. 



Marshy places ; at roots of grass, in moss, &c. ; local ; Loudon district, not uncommon 

 and widely distributed ; Bungay; Hastings; Brighton; Cambridgeshire and Norfolk 

 Fens; Coleshill ; Sutton Park ; Cannock Chase ; Uepton ; Hoston ; Liverpool ; Man- 

 chester ; Northumberland, Durham, and Cumberland; Scotland, scarce, Tweed and 

 Forth districts, 



S> canescens, Rosh. (major, Rey). Closely allied to S. piibesrens, 

 and about the same length as that insect, but more robust, with the front 

 parts wider and the hind body conical, contracted from base to apex, the 

 apex being very acuminate; this character will at once distinguish it ; the 

 liead, also, is wider ; the antennpe are darker at the Tiase, and the whole 

 insect is a little more shining ; the thorax is considerably wider than in 

 ^S". x)uhescens and is broadest in the middle, whereas in the latter insect 

 it is rather narrow and broadest before middle ; in the male the seventh 

 ventral segment of hind body is deeply excised in a rounded angle, and 

 the fourth, fifth, and sixth segments are broadly and slightly emarginate, 

 depressed in middle, with the depression ciliated with white hairs at the 

 sides, L, 5-5 1 mm. 



Mar^hy places; at roots of grass, &c. ; local and, as a rule, rare; it sometimes, 

 however, occurs in considerable numbers ; Southend, Wimbledon, Darenth Wood, 

 Faversham (in numbers, J. J. Walker), Suodland, Mertou, Ealing, Richmond Park, 

 Maidstone; Sandwich; Stretford and Bowdon, near Manchester. 



S. pallitarsis, Steph, (jyJanfaris, Er,, cavifrons, Eey). Rather 

 depressed, leaden black ; of the same general appearance as S. hinotafus ; 

 it may, however, be at once distinguished by having the tarsi, the whole 

 of the palpi, and the antennse (except the club which is fuscous) yellow- 

 or reddish-testaceous ; the punctuation is fine, and much resembles that of 

 S. pubescens, from which it may be easily distinguished by the characters 

 just mentioned ; it is, moreover, rather more shining than either of these 

 two species, and has the hind body evidently more acuminate at apex ; in 

 the male the seventh ventral segment of hind body is very deeply notched, 

 the notch being rounded triangular, and the third to the sixth segments 

 are more or less depressed in the middle of hinder margin, L. 4^-5 

 mm. 



Marshy places ; in moss, at roots of grass, in stems of reeds, &c. ; rather local ; 

 Walton-on-Thames, Woking, Mickleham, Tilgate, Ripley, Barnes, Weybridge, Sheer- 

 ness, Maidstone ; Henley ; Bungay ; Margate ; Hastings ; Lowestoft ; Brighton ; 

 Devonshire ; Whitsand Bay, Plymouth ; Swansea ; Wicken and Horning Fens ; Sutton 

 Park ; Ivepton ; Northumberland district, rare ; Scotland, local, Solway, Forth, Tay, 

 and Dee districts, 



V. niveuSy Fauvel, This variety, regarded as a separate species by 

 many authors, is much smaller than the type, narrower, and more linear, 

 with the hind body more parallel, and the tarsi of a darker testaceous 

 colour; the frontal impressions are deeper, and the interval between them 



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