20 CLAVICORNIA. [AmpllicyUis. 



Britain ; it resembles Leiodes in form, but is easily Jistinguished by the 

 4-jointed club of the antennse (the club of Leiudf^s being 5-jointed with 

 the second joint very small) and the non-spinose posterior tibia? ; it is 

 also related to Aguthidium, but the latter genus is less globose and has 

 the club of the antenna3 3-jointed, and the mesosternum keeled instead 

 of tuberculate. 



A. grlobus, F. Very convex, almost hemispherical, head and elytra 

 shining black, thorax bright red ; antennce red, with the two middle 

 joints of the club blackish ; head thickly and finely punctured, mouth 

 parts red ; thorax at hinder margin more than double as broad as long, 

 plainly narrowed in front, anterior angles rounded, posterior angles 

 o1)tuse, thickly and finely punctured ; elytra rather distinctly punctured, 

 with a deep sutural stria reaching from apex to about middle ; meso- 

 sternum tuberculate at apex; legs reddish-brown, posterior femora often 

 blackish. L. 2|mm. 



Male Avith the three first joints of the anterior tarsi and the two first 

 joints of the intermediate tarsi widened and pubescent beneath ; female 

 with all the tarsi 4-jointed. 



In dead leaves, faggot stacks, rotten wood and fungoid growth ; not common, but 

 occasionally occurs in numbers ; Woking, Caterham, Coonibe ^^'ood, Daien'h Wood, 

 Chiitham, "Purley Down, Wimbledon, Dulwicli, Highgate, Sbeppy ; E«sex ; Hastings ; 

 New Forest ; Church Strettou ; Sherwood Forest ; Nortliumberland district, very 

 rare, Gosforth and Long Beuton ; not recorded from Scotland. 



V. ferrugineum, Sturm. This variety is entirely rufo-ferruginous ; 

 it is less common than the type form ; I have taken it near Lincoln and 

 it has occurred at Eipon and in other localities. 



Z1IODES9 Latreille {Anisotoma, Eeitter et auct). 



This genus contains about a dozen species from Europe and J^orth 

 America, four of wliich are found in Britain ; like Anisotoma they have 

 a 5-jointed club with the sixth joint very small, but they may be dis- 

 tinguished from that genus by their more hemispherical shape, and by 

 having the mesosternum tuberculate at apex and not carinate ; they are 

 also, as a rule, larger and dark-coloured, occasionally being furnished 

 with yellow spots on the elytra. 



Tlie larva of L. glabra {Anisotoma glahra) is described and figured by Schiodte, i. 

 37 PI. X. fig. 7. It is very like that of Chuleva fusca, but is more parallel-sided and 

 more gradually narrowed behind ; the hciid projects, but is sm:dl, and very much 

 narrower than the piothorax ; the three thoracic segments are very transverse, of about 

 equal size, with tiie angles rounded, and with strong muscular impressions ; the 

 abdominal segments are much contracted in front and behind, and gradually decrease 

 in i)rcadth : theniuth segment is about as loug as broad and cylindrical, and bears a 

 viry short anal appendage and two long cerci; legs and antenna short; this larva is 

 p;ik' with the corneous parts fuscous ; it is found in fungi. I have retained the name 

 of Liodes for this genus, although Rritter and several authors have changed it to 

 Anisoloma, as the iuterchange of the names of genera gives rise to so much coulusiou; 



