Ci/rtusa.'} CLAVicoltNiA. 23 



C. mlnuta, Ahr. Short oval, convex, subglobose, testaceous or red- 

 dish, brown, shining ; antennae reddish with club brown ; head thickly 

 and rather plainly punctured ; thorax transverse, finely punctured, with 

 the sides somewhat strongly rounded, posterior angles rather sharp right 

 angles ; elytra with regular rows of punctures reaching nearly to base, 

 interstices rather thickly and plainly punctured, with a sutural stria 

 reaching from apex to about middle ; legs testaceous, tibise^ especially 

 the middle pair, strongly spined. L. Ij-lfmm. 



Male with the posterior femora gradually widened to apex, and fur, 

 nished at apex with a recurved tooth. 



By evening sweeping, &c. ; rare; Scarborough; Scotland, Lowlands, very rare, 

 Sohvay district, banks of Firth in flood refuse ; the specimens formerly referred to 

 C. minuta must be most of them referred to C. yauxilla, which is, apparently, confined 

 to the London district and the south. 



C. pauxilla, Schmidt. This species is allied to the preceding, but 



diflfers in being, on an average, decidedly smaller, and of more elongate 



and depressed form; the posterior angles of the thorax are blunt, 



although not rounded off, and in the male the posterior femora are 



abruptly dilated at apex and terminate in a right angle on the lower side 



instead of in a recurved tooth ; the second joint of the club of the 



antennae is also rather more visible, and the punctuation of the interstices 



of the elytra is more diffuse ; these latter characters, however, are not 



very obvious. L. vix 1 mm. 



By evening sweeping ; not uncommon in the Loudon district, Mickleham, Shirley, 

 Forest Hill, Caterliam,Claygate, Cobham, Birchwood, Maidstone, Gravesend, Chatham ; 

 Hastings; New Forest; Plymouth. 



ANZSOTOBSA, Illiger. {Liodes, Latr,). 



This genus contains a considerable number of species, the majority of 

 which are found in Europe; several, however, have been described from 

 Northern Asia and North America, and it is probable that the number 

 at present known will be largely increased in course of time ; about 

 fifty species are now recognized as European, of which nearly half are 

 found in Britain ; many of these are extremely closely allied, and are 

 very difficult to determine with accuracy. The late Mr. Eye took a great 

 interest in the group, and added several new species ; it is, however, 

 doubtful whether all his species can be regarded as distinct ; in the 

 present book the arrangement of Reitter has been in the main followed, 

 as his work (Bestimmungs-Tabellen der Eur. Col. Necrophaga, 1885), is 

 the latest that has appeared on the subject. The habits of the genus 

 are at present very imperfectly known ; the species are, as a rule, captured 

 by sweeping after sunset in damp and dewy places, but they occasionally 

 occur in fungi, or on sandhills. I have also found them early in hot 

 mornings, sitting upon stones in the sun. The genus Anisotoma is dis- 

 tinguished from its nearest allies by having the anterior and inter- 

 mediate tarsi 5-jointed and the posterior -tarsi 4-join(ed. 



