106 CLAvicoRXiA. \_Enplectus, 



Fiirulitim ; Parkliurst Forest, Isle of Wight, in nests of F. rufa ; New Forest ; Mid- 

 land districts, common in miiny localities, Birmingham (Sutton Park, &c.), Tam- 

 worth, Cannock Chase, Bewdley and Sherwood Forests, &c. ; it has not, however, 

 been recorded from the northern counties or from Scotland. 



E. nubig-ena, Eeitter. Narrow and elongate, rufo-testaceous, 

 sinning, almost impunctate, with fine and scanty pubescence, which is 

 longer at the apex of the abdomen than on the rest of the body ; head 

 rather large, with two small deep punctures at base, from each of Avhich 

 proceeds a furrow ; these unite in front, forming an inverted (J enclosing 

 a smooth and shining area ; antennse rather long and slender ; thorax 

 about as broad as long, rounded in front, much narrowed behind, with 

 three foveae at base, the lateral ones small, and the central one crescent- 

 shaped, discoidal fovea very small ; elytra long, narrowed at base, dorsal 

 stride deep, but very short; abdomen elongate, with no trace of depressions 

 at base of first segments; legs clear testaceous, L. ll— If mm. 



Male with the ventral segments of abdomen longitudinally sulcate in 

 middle, anal segment with a longitudinal keel. 



Under bark of beech and oak logs ; discovered by Mr. Blatch in Sherwood Forest 

 in May, 1884, and again captured by him in September, 1885 ; it occurs on the Con- 

 tinent in the mountainous parts of Hungary, in the Caucasus, &c. 



Xj. ambigruus, Reich. A small, narrow, somewhat depressed species, 

 pitchy-brown, with the antennaj, palpi, and legs testaceous, clothed with 

 line grey pubescence ; head as broad as thorax with strongly impressed 

 converging furrows, antennae rather slender ; thorax about as long as 

 broad, not strongly narrowed behind, with three deep basal foveie con- 

 nected by a fine and rather deep furrow ; elytra broader than thorax, 

 much longer than together broad, almost impunctate, with a deep sutural 

 stria, and without dorsal strice, but with short, more or less elongate, 

 fove?e at base ; abdomen parallel, without depressed area at the base of 

 the front segment. L. 1 mm. 



Male with a spur at apex of intermediate tibiae, characters of the 

 abdominal segment unimportant. 



Marshj' places; at roots of grass, &c. ; occasionally in haystacks and other refuse; 

 local, but sometunes not uncommon in some places; Lee, Wimbledon, Eltham, Sheer- 

 uess, Weybridge, Bromley, Walton-on-Thames; Tewkesbury (in moss stripped from 

 poplar trunks after a flood) ; Horning Fen and other fen localties in refuse, and also 

 by beating or sweeping reeds in hot weather. Scotland, Lowlands, rare, iu moss, 

 Solway district only; it probably occurs in many other localities. 



E. xninutissimus, Aubc (Garneysi, Fowler). Linear, elongate, very 

 narrow, much depressed, castaneous, shining, sparingly clothed with 

 short hairs ; head rather large, triangular, obtuse in front, moderately 

 punctured, with two deep foveae between eyes joined by a longitudinal 

 furrow to two smaller fovea) situated above the epistoma, antenna) robust ; 

 thorax small, rounded at base, narrower than the head, with three deep 

 equidistant foveae at base, connected l)y a straight line ; elytra con- 



