^iqjledus.] clavicornia. 103 



sides, nnd thorax and elytra almost impunctatc ; female duller, with the 

 head thickly and plainly, and the thorax and elytra moderately thickly, 

 punctured ; in the male the last ventral segment of the abdomen is 

 transversely depressed. 



In rotten bark of beech, &c. ; very rare; Scarborough (Pt. Lawson, who first cap- 

 tured the species in Britain) j Strood (J. J. Walker in company with £. bicolor). 



Z2. punctatus, MuLs. Rufo-testaceous, with antennce and legs 

 lighter ; head large, but rather short (being double as broad, including 

 the eyes, as the length from the front margin of forehead to the margin 

 of vertex), thickly punctured, very wide across the eyes, the forehead 

 being strongly transverse, frontal furrows obsolete ; thorax scarcely nar- 

 rower than the head, and more finely punctured, although the punctuation 

 is rather close and distinct ; dorsal furrow plain, often reaching the basal 

 fovea ; elytra very finely and scarcely visibly punctured, longer than 

 together broad ; abdomen narrower than elytra with basal depressions on 

 first segments narrow and feeble. L. If- l^mm. 



Male with the penidtimate ventral segment of abdomen broadly 

 emarginate at apex, and narrow in middle, last segment strongly foveo- 

 Jate ; in this sex also the intermediate tibipe are fvu'nished with a spur 

 at apex ; in the female the last ventral segment is feebly foveolate. 



In rotten wood under bark; it is also said to occur under dead leaves; rare, and 

 almost entirely confined to the Midlands ; Sherwood Forest (in some numbers) ; Dean 

 and Bewdlcy Forests; Cannock Chase; Knowle; Salford Priors, Warwickshire; 

 Bretby Wood, near Reptou ; I also have records from Ashtead, Surrey, and from the 

 New Forest. 



S. K.arsteni, Eeich. Very like the preceding, with the same 

 short broad head, and with the head and thorax punctured, the former, 

 however, not so distinctly as in E. jmndatus ; the forehead, however, is 

 less strongly transverse than in the latter species, and has the two large 

 frontal punctures placed close to the side margin, a character which, as 

 Mr. Blatch points out, is apparently peculiar to the species ; the thorax 

 is much more strongly narrowed towards base, and the male characters 

 are different ; this species is often mixed with E. signatus in collections, 

 Avith which it is often taken in company, but this latter species may 

 easily be distinguished by its longer and narrower head (which is hardly 

 as broad as thorax), and by having the head punctured only at the sides, 

 and the thorax almost impunctate. L. 1-1^ mm. 



Male with the fourth ventral segment of abdomen foveolate on both 

 sides, and the space between bisinuate ; fifth, transversely foveolate; 

 sixth, widely emarginate at apex ; anal segment with two or three more 

 or less obsolete foveae. 



In haystack refuse, cut grass, dung-heaps, &c. ; it also sometimes occurs under the 

 bark of dead trees; Strood, Caterham, Mickleham, Ashtead, Shirley, Wandsworth, 

 Putney, Loughton, Cobham Park, Twickenham, Esher, &c. ; Glanvilles Wootton ; 



