424 STAPHYUNiniE. [Ilapalarfea, 



pressions before ocelli, side margins of forehead plainly elevated near eyes ; 

 antenna} reddish-testaceous, gradually thickened towards apex, with 

 penultimate joints more or less strongly transverse ; thorax rather 

 narrower than elytra, almost double as broad as long, rounded in front 

 and scarcely contracted behind, posterior angles distinct, thickly and 

 rather deeply punctured, without furrows on disc ; elytra more than 

 twice as long as thorax, rather convex, finely and closely, but distinctly 

 punctured ; hind body ovate, very finely shagreened ; legs testaceous. 

 L. 2| mm. 



Male with the sixth ventral segment of hind body furnished in 

 middle with a deflexed bifid tooth ; posterior trochanters very large, 

 securiform. 



In fungi, under bark, &c. ; occasionally on the wing, or by sweeping; not common ; 

 Shcerness, Birch Wood, Darenth Wood, Caterhara, Mickleham, Addington, Tonbridge, 

 Cowfold, Esher, Bromley ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Alverstoke ; New Forest ; Shrews- 

 bury ; not recorded from the northern districts of England j Scotland, very rare, Tay 

 district ("E,annoch," Buchanan White). 



ACRUIiZA, Thomson. 



This genus comprises one species, which was formerly included under 

 Homalium, but has been separated by Thomson ; its peculiar short 

 inflated shape Avill at once separate it ; it is extremely rare, and is found 

 very sparingly under bark in the Northumberland district, and in 

 Scotland. 



A. inflata, Gyll. Broad oval, very convex, almost globose ; pitchy 

 brown or reddish brown with the sides of thorax and hind body and the 

 suture sides and shoulders of the elytra lighter ; the colour, however, is 

 variable, and the elytra are often dark unicolorous pitchy red ; head 

 rather thickly punctured, smooth in front, with a small and sometimes 

 indistinct impression near ocelli, forehead raised near eyes as in H. 

 jiygmcea ; antennae red or reddish brown with the four last joints strongly 

 transverse ; thorax rather narrower than elytra^ double as broad as long, 

 more strongly narrowed in front than behind, with side margins finely 

 crenulate, depressed at sides, disc very convex, even, punctuation rather 

 thick and deep ; elytra more than twice as long as thorax thickly, deeply, 

 and rather strongly punctured ; hind body very short, very finely 

 shagreened, somewhat shining ; legs testaceous. L. 2 mm. 



Under bark; very rare; Northumberland district, Ravensworth Woods (J. 

 Hardy); Scotland, very rare, Tay and Dee districts; a very few specimens have 

 been taken, for one of which I am indebted to Mr. J. J. King, of Glasgow, who 

 kindly gave me one of his only pair. 



EVSPKAIiERVBZ* Kraatz. 



This genus forms a natural transition between Homalium and A7i- 

 thobium, being closely connected with the foiiner by its general appearance 

 and form and its spinose tibise, and with the latter by its stout legs and 



