StenUS.] STAPIITLINIDiE. 355 



a spocimon from Leo, Kent, with the elytra broader and longer than in 

 the ordinary forms, with the shoulders strongly squared and very 

 marked, and not at all contracted ; this is, I think, probably a win<^od 

 lorm ; it appears to bo very rare. ° 



S. picipennis, Er. Deep black, shining ; head evidently broader 

 than thorax, with Inroad and deep furrows, the interval being raised 

 rather strongly ; antenna, including basal joint, testaceous, with club 

 dusky, palpi testaceous ; thorax at widest as broad as lon^r, with sides 

 strongly rounded, rather strongly and not very thickly punctured, less 

 c osely on disc, with an evident depression on each side behind middle • 

 elytra a little longer than thorax, rather strongly punctured, with several 

 uneven depressions ; hind body short and stout, contracted towards 

 apex, with the hinder margin of the first four or five segments smooth 

 and rather broadly elevated, coarsely punctured at base of the segments 

 and at sides; legs testaceous, knees more or less broadly infuscate. 

 L. 3^-4: mm. "^ 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body broadly and 

 angularly emargmate, sixth somewhat depressed, very finely and thickly 

 punctured m middle, with long and thick pubescence. 



Damp and marsby places; in moss, at roots of grass, &c. ; local; Wimbledon 

 Commoa (reedy p aces not nncommon) ; Dulwich, Barnes, Peck ham, Cowley EaHnc!^ 



Knn r"''r ' ^f^^'''' If °f ^^igl^t; Sutton Park, Birmiigbamf Rep on 

 Peston Lancashire; Manchester district ; not recorded from the extreme north of 

 England; Scotland, very rare, Forth district only. 



The coarser punctuation and light basal joint of antenna will at 

 once separate this species from the preceding. 



S. Picipes, Steph. (rusticus, Er., spretus, Fairm.). Rather flat and 

 broad ; dull leaden black, hind body a little more shining: head with 

 broad frontal furrows, the interval not strongly raised; antennjB testa- 

 ceous with the first joint black or blackish, and the club dusky, palpi 

 testaceous; punctuation of whole upper surface moderately strom/aiid 

 very thick ; thorax scarcely longer than broad, broadest before middle • 

 elytra distinctly longer than thorax, with disc almost even; hind body' 

 rather short, distinctly narrowed towards apex; legs pitchy red or pitchy 

 brown, with coxa3 and knees dark. L. Sh-i mm. *= ^ "^ ^ ^ 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body sharply and 

 narrowly excised at apex. p j- ^"^ 



In haystack refuse, moss cut grass, &c. ; often by sweeping ; both in damn and 

 dry localities ; common and widely distributed throughout the kingdom. ^ 



S. fovelcollis, Kr. {Ufoveolatus, Er. nee Gyll, hrevicollis. Thorns 

 brevicornts, Sharp's Cat. 2nd Ed.). Very like the precedhi-/ and as 

 Mulsant and Key observe, it might be mistaken for a variety of it it is 

 however, smaller and more parallel, with the elytra shorter and con-' 

 siderably narrower m proportion to thorax, and a little more strongly and 



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