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Male with the posterior legs very long, the femora emarginate and 

 furnished with strong teeth at apex, the tibiae very strongly curved, in- 

 termediate pairs much curved, intermediate femora toothed at base ; 

 female Avith the apical angle of the posterior femora somewhat pro- 

 minent. 



By evening sweeping among dead leaves in autumn, but more especially in truffles ; 

 rare; Mr. Champion says that he has invariably found it by sweeping as above under 

 old beech-trees. Chatham, Caterham, Micklehara, Sanderstead, Amberley ; Eythorne, 

 near Dover ; Audley End, Saftron Walden, in truflBes (Curtis) ; Marlborough ; Devon ; 

 Swansea ; Scotland, very rare. Forth District ; Ireland, near Belfast and Dublin ; the 

 species, as might be expected, is common in France in the Pe'rigord district. 



A. oblong-a, Er., grandis, Fairm.). About the size of smaller 

 specimens of the preceding species, but rather more elliptical, and with 

 shorter antennae, which have the club of the same colour as the rest of 

 the body ; the species may be easily recognized by the shorter second 

 joint of the antennae, which is scarcely longer than broad ; thorax with 

 the anterior angles less marked, and the posterior angles more nearly 

 right angles ; elytra with sides rather more rounded, and somewhat 

 broader proportionally, with more strongly punctured striae ; in the male 

 the posterior tibiae are more evenly curved, and the posterior femora are 

 strongly emarginate and toothed at apex ; in this point, however, the 

 specimens appear to be somewhat variable. L. 4-5 mm. 



The two species A. ohlonga, Er., and A. grandis, Eairm., appear now 

 to be considered identical ; the chief difference on which they were 

 separated seems to have been taken from their sexual characters ; the 

 denticulation, however, of the apex of the posterior femora of male appears 

 to vary in degree, and the same probably ajDplies to the female, which in 

 A. grandis is said to have the posterior femora angulated, and in A. oh- 

 longa rounded. In case, however, the two species should again be 

 separated, it may be as well to give the records under different head- 

 ings : — 



A. dhlonga. One specimen taken by Mr. Harris near Burton-on- 

 Trent and named as A. oblonga, by Dr. Kraatz ; Famham, Surrey (one 

 male, Champion) ; one specimen beaten from broom in a wood near York 

 (Hutchinson) ; Sherwood Forest ; Dumfries, Scotland. 



A. grandis. Caterham, Mickleham, Esher, by evening sweeping in 

 the autumn in woods (Champion) ; Mickleham " Hilly Field " under 

 trees (Rye) ; Tilgate Forest; Loughton and Cowfold (Power) ; Highgate 

 (Janson) ; Bretby Wood, near Burton-on-Trent, where I captured a fine 

 specimen on September 30th, 1879, by sweeping in the evening when 

 the grass was so wet that water could be wrung out of the net at each 

 sweep ; this specimen was named for me as A. grandis, and it is worthy 

 of note that it comes from the same locality as the original specimen of 

 A. oblonga. 



A. picea, HI. Oblong ovate, convex, of a deep pitchy-black colour, 



