426 STAPHTLiNiDiE. \_Antlwhium: 



and dehiscent, moderately strongly punctured ; hind body almost covered 

 by elytra, strongly acuminate at apex, which is usually lighter ; legs 

 testaceous. L. 2 mm. 



Damp places, in flowers ; local, but eommoa where it occurs; Haslemere, Surrey ; 

 Aylsliam ; Norfolk; Sufl^olk; Glauvilles Wootton ; Devonshire; Swansea; Kuowle ; 

 BewcUey ; Hai-tlebury ; Liucoln ; Manchester (rape, cabbage, and hawthorn) ; 

 Northumberland district ; Scothiud, common, both Lowlands and Highlands as far 

 north as the Moray district. 



A. lapponicum, Mannh. {flavipenne, Er.). Closely allied to the 

 preceding, but distinguished by its shorter testaceous elytra, which are 

 only about twice as long as thorax, by the thorax being more delicately 

 and less thickly punctured, foveolate at base, and slightly channelled on 

 disc ; in the female the sutural angle of elytra is produced, L. 2 mm. 



\n lowers oi Caltha palustris ; very rare; a single specimen has been taken afc 

 Runnoch by Ur. Sharp : it appears somewhat doubtful whether it is anythiug more 

 than a variety of A. minutum. 



A. ophthalmicum, Payk. Colour uniform testaceous, upper surface 

 rather dull, scarcely pubescent ; antennte slightly brownish at apex ; 

 head thickly, deeply, and distinctly punctured ; thorax very finely 

 punctured, with anterior and posterior margins almost equal, posterior 

 angles blunt, but distinct ; elytra about double as long as thorax, thickly 

 and deeply punctured, of a lighter colour than the rest of the body ; 

 hind body very finely shagreened, testaceous in both sexes. L. 1-|- 

 2 mm. 



In flowers ; generally distributed and commou throughout England and Scotland, 

 and probably Ireland. 



A. torquatum, Marsh (scuiellare, Er., mucronatum, Steph.), This 

 species may easily be distinguished from the preceding by the colour of 

 the hind body, which is black in the male and partially black in the 

 female, and also by the more difi'use (although very fine) punctuation of 

 the thorax ; from A. sorbi it may at once be distinguished by its much 

 larger size and black metasternum ; the elytra also are somewhat more 

 thickly punctured, and the hind body is more evidently punctured and 

 duller. L. l|-2 mm. 



Male with two small red-brown prominences in middle of hind margin 

 of sixth ventral segment of hind body. 



In flowers ; generally distributed in England and Scotland, and probably in Ireland. 

 I have found it by far the most abundant species of the genus, 



A. sorbi, Gyll, (silesiacum, Letz), A very minute species, and the 

 smallest of the Homaliinas that we possess ; it is coloured much as the 

 preceding, but is usually lighter, and the hind body is pitchy-black or 

 black in the male, and entirely rufo-testaceous or rufous in the female ; 

 the metasternum is testaceous, a point that will at once distinguish it 

 from A. torquatum ; its smaller size and more distinctly punctured 



