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and very broad, distinctly pnnctured in rows, wini^^s 1)lack visible in 

 some specimens beneath elytra ; legs long, yellow, tibice sliglitly dilated ; 

 under-side rufo-piceons, mouth, coxae and abdomen lighter. L. 1-1 1- 

 mm. 



In rotten wood, nsuuUy in company witli ants; rnre ; Strood, Kent (Cliampion") ; 

 neiir London, 1S!]2 (\VatcrlH)u?;e) ; Cobham Park; Now Forest (Sharp and (Jorliani) ; 

 Scavborongh (Wilkinson) ; Mr. Blatch bas also taken it in tlie New Forest in 

 fungi. 



This species may easily be known by its obtuse and turgid shape and 

 the shining pitchy-red colour of the whole Ijody. 



P. G-ressneri, Er. Entirely oval in shape, with the thorax broadest 

 at base and continuous in outline with the elytra, a point which separates 

 it from our other species, which all have the thorax contracted at base ; 

 colour rufous or rufo-piceous ; head rather large, eyes small, antennae long, 

 clear yellow; thorax short, glabrous, without l)asal fovete ; scutellum 

 short and broad ; elytra broad, ovate, broadest Ijefore middle, acuminate 

 behind, scarcely punctured ; wings black, usually visible underneath the 

 transparent elytra ; legs long, slender, clear yellow ; under-side rufo- 

 piceoiis, with head and thorax lighter, last segment of the abdomen, 

 coxce, and metasternum, yellow. L. ^r-1 mm. 



In rotten wood, cbiefly in company witb F. fuUginosa ; rare; discovered by Mr. 

 Blatch in June, 1883, in the New Forest in fungi ; and subsequently found by Mr. 

 Goiham and Dr. Sharp in the same locality; j\Ir. Blatch has since taken it in Sher- 

 wood Forest under bark. 



CORYLOPHID^. 



The members of this family are very small, oval or rounded insects, 

 which approach the Trichopterygida^ in having their Avings fringed with 

 long hairs ; they differ, however, in having the maxillae unilobed and the 

 tarsi 4-jointed (the third joint being small, and concealed in an emargi- 

 nation of the second joint), and in the fact that the wings are much 

 shorter ; the maxillary palpii are also ditl'erently formed and are some- 

 times very curious ; the genus Aphanocephalns, Avhich appears to be 

 widely distril)uted in the East of Asia is now rightly separated l)y 

 Mr. Matthews, aiid regarded as a family distinct in itself, called Pseiido- 

 corylophidse ; the species of this genus have the maxillary palpi apparently 

 3-lobed, and the tarsi are truly 3-jointed ; the wings, moreover, arc very 

 differentl}^ formed. 



The Corylo})hida3 are universally distributed in the temperate and 

 tropical regions of the world ; at present seventeen genera and more than 

 150 species have been described ; the Eev. A. Matthews is at present 

 engaged on a monograph of the group, which, when completed, will be 

 almost as valuable a contribution to our study of the minute Coleoptera 

 as his well-known " Trichopferyt/ia lUustrata;" we may, therefore, expect 

 that the numl)er of species will be largely increased. 



