403 STAPHYLiNiD.E. \_Micralijiiima. 



the punctures ; head large not much shorter than thorax, finely and 

 diffusely punctured, smooth in front, with impressions before ocelli ; 

 antennaj short and stout, black with reddish base, penultimate joints 

 strongly transverse ; thorax somewhat cordiform, with sides rounded in 

 front and contracted behiml, posterior angles lilunt, punctuation as on 

 head; elytra shorter than thorax, much dilated behind^ strongly rugose; 

 hind body dilated and rounded at sides very finely jDunctured ; legs 

 pitchy-black or pitchy-red, femora darker. L. 3 mm. 



About old posts, uuder stones, &c. , on or near tlie coast ; local ; Harwich ; Plymoutli ; 

 Isle of Wi^ht ; Lymington ; Weymouth ; South Devon, Kingsbridge, &c. ; Barmouth ; 

 Lancashire and Cheshire, Constautine, Hoylake, Grange-over- Sands, &e. ; Northumber- 

 land district, sparingly on the sea-coast in the fissures of shaly sandstone, crevices of 

 limestone, beneath stones, &c., often below higli-water mark ; Scotland, very local, 

 maritime, Tweed, Clyde, Forth, and Tay districts. I have taken it a long way below 

 high-water mark at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, running on stones in the sun, in company 

 with a species of Thysanura, which it probably preys on, and larger specimens of which 

 it rather strongly resembles at a little distance; it is slow in its movements. 



PHXZiGHlZENUM, Ivraatz. 



This genus contains three or four species from Europe and the Canary 

 Islands ; in appearance they resemble a small Homalium', the sexual 

 diirerences are unimportant. 



P. sordidum, Steph. {suhpubesceiis, Steph., humile, Er.). Elongate, 

 depressed, subparallel, black, with the elytra pitchy testaceous, and the head 

 and thorax often lighter or darker pitchy brown ; head and thorax thickly, 

 evenly, and someAvhat deeply punctured ; head smooth and even with 

 the ocelli hardly visible ; antennje with the first four joints yellow and 

 the rest darker testaceous or fuscous, penultimate joints oblong ; thorax 

 not much broader than long, with apex truncate, and sides and posterior 

 angles rounded ; elytra plainly double as long as thorax, with rather 

 shallower and slightly rugose punctuation ; hind body finely punctured ; 

 legs testaceous, femora and tibiae sometimes a little infuscate. L. 2 mm. 



On flowers of gorse, broom, «S:c. ; also on oak ; locally abundant ; London district, 

 generally distributed ; Hastings ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Isle of Wight (abundant on 

 furze in spring) ; Exeter ; Plymouth ; rarer in the Midlands, Sherwood Forest, &c. ; 

 Scarborough ; Manchester ; Northumberland district ; Scotland, local, Solway, Tweed, 

 and Forth districts ; Ireland, Dublin, Phoenix Park. 



SUSSCTUS, Eedtenbacher. 



This genus contains at present three species, E. Wldtei, E. Giraudi, 

 whicli occurs in the German mountains, and E. rufulus taken by Mr. 

 Lewis in Japan ; Dr. Sharp appears to be of opinion that the three 

 species will be found to be connected by a form yet remaining to be 

 discovered in Siberia ; in common with Conjpliium the genus is remark- 

 able for the strongly dilated pyriform penultimate joint of the maxillary 



