104 CLAVICORNIA. [EHplccflCS 



Miilland Counties, generally distribnted, Birmingham district, Sherwood and Bewdley 

 Forests, Repton, Cannock Chase, &c. ; Scotland, rare, Forth district only ; Ireland, 

 near Dublin ; it appears to be widely distributed but never very common.* 



S. sig-natus, Eeich. Eufo-testaceous, Avitli the head not hroader 

 than the thorax, and longer in proportion than in J^J. Karxteni, from 

 which species it is, however, distingnished \>j its punctuation, and by 

 liaving the two large frontal punctures situated at some little distance 

 from the margins ; the depressions of tlie alidomen are deeper ; it is 

 most closely allied to E. sanguineus, from which it only differs in its 

 colour, its rather smaller size, and in having the lateral thoracic fovese 

 a little shallower. L. l-l|-mm. 



Male with the penultimate ventral segment foveolate in the middle, 

 and furnished on each side of the fovea with a sharp tubercle ; inter- 

 mediate tibise with a small spur at apex. 



In moss, haystack and vegetable refuse, cut grass, dung-heaps, &c. ; rarely under 

 hark, and in ants' nests ; local, but common in some districts ; Londou district, rather 

 common; Hastings, and probably the South Coast generally; Falmouth; iVlidhind 

 districts generally distributed ; it used to be very common in my hot-bed at Repton ; 

 Mr. Blatch records the occurrence of two specimens under bark in Sherwood Forest ; 

 Scotland, rare, in nests of the wood ant, Tweed, Forth, and Moray districts ; this and 

 other species are probably much more widely distributed than is at present known, 

 as the Euplecli have been systematically neglected by many collectors owing to the 

 difficulty of their determination. 



S. nanus, Reich. {Reichenhachi, Denny ; Kirlyi, Denny). Colour 

 rather variable, pitcliy-castaneous, or reddish-brown, often with the 

 front parts pitchy and the abdomen reddish, antennae and legs lighter ; 

 occasionally the elytra only are dark and the rest of the body red ; 

 pubescence ratlier long ; \ipper surface finely punctured tliroiighout ; 

 head as broad as thorax, with a distinct basal fovea (a character which 

 will separate it from all its near allies), frontal furrows deep, converging, 

 but variable, sometimes taking the form of a V and sometimes of a (J ; 

 thorax a little broader than long at its widest ; elytra broader than 

 thorax, somewhat longer than together broad, usually with a distinct 

 fchort stria at base between the dorsal and sutural stride ; basal depres- 

 sions of first segments of abdomen distinct, their sides very divergent. 

 L. 1 \-i\ mm. 



Male with the penultimate ventral segment with four obsolete 

 fovese near base, with a larger transverse fovea in the centre, anal 

 segment obsoletely foveolate ; intermediate tibise with a distinct spur 

 at apex. 



In haystack and vegetable refuse; also under hark; local; Shirley, Lee, Esher, 

 Cowley ; Glanvilles Woottou ; Wiudsor ; Tamworth ; Birmingham ; Bewdley ; Can- 

 nock Chase; Sherwood Forest ; Northumberland district, common (Bold). According 



* Mr. Waterhouse (I.e. p. 6) mentions the capture of an unusually large example of 

 this species near a uest o( Formica fuliffinosa. 



