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with distinct stria?, which are phunly punctured, and usuallj'- become 

 ol)solete near apex ; interstices fiat, finely punctured in more or less 

 irregular rows, legs reddish or pitchy-red. L. 2-2| mm. 



Under bark of pines, elms, oaks, and many other trees ; also in ants' nests ; common 

 and generally distributed over the greater part of England and probably Ireland ; it 

 is ajiparently less common further north ; Mr. Bold records it as rare from the 

 Northumberland district, and Dr. Sharp says that it is local in Scotland in the Tay 

 and Dee districts. Mr. Dlatch has taken a lar^e mahogany-br.)wu coloured variety 

 in great profusion in Buddon Wood, Leicestershire, in nests'of Formica rnfa. 



V. longkolle, Reitt. This appears to be a form of Reitter's v. caucasicuvi 

 of C. liisteroides, whicli is chiefly distinguished by its longer thorax. In 

 Dr. Sharp's collection there is a specimen answering to my specimen from 

 Ilerr Reitter, Avhich is labelled as " bought from Turner; " no locality, 

 however, is attached. 



C. fag-i, Bris. (forticorne, Muls.). Broader and more convex than 

 C. histeroldes, and with the elytra more dilated in front ; the antenn;c 

 are shorter and stouter, ferruginous, with the first and last joints lighter, 

 and the thorax is evidently more strongly and much more sparingly 

 punctured, especially on disc, and at the base is furnished with larger 

 impressions, which are oblong, and more distinct than in the precedmg 

 species ; the thorax, moreover, is almost parallel-sided in the male, and 

 evidently narrowed in front in the female ; the stria? of the elytra are 

 rather finely punctured, and the interstices, as a rule, are almost smooth. 

 L. 2-2i mm. 



Under bark and in rotten wood, especially of beech ; not common ; Chatham, 

 Sevenoaks, Cobham Park, Tuickenham, St. Mary Cray, Mickleham, Tdgate, Darenth ; 

 The Holt, Farnham ; Dean Forest. 



V. exeavatam, Fowler. This variety has the basal impressions of 

 thorax continued nearly to the anterior margin, leaving a more or less 

 defined broad raised longitudinal sj^ace in middle. 



Warlingbam, Surrey ; three or four specimens have been taken in this locality by 

 Mr. W. T. Saunders ; they may possibly be identical with C.fjveolalum, Baudi, but 

 I have never seen a specimen of this species; it is, moreover, ouiitted in the last 

 European catalogue, and is unknown to Herr Reitter, who is the chief authority on the 

 European species. 



C. ferrug-ineum, Steph. (angustatitm, Er.). Rufo-ferruginous, 

 oblong, parallel- sided ; smaller and narrower than C. liisteroides, to im- 

 mature specimens of which species it bears a considerable resemblance ; 

 thorax rather strongly punctured, thickly at sides less thickly on disc, 

 in male a little longer than broad, very slightly -widened in front, in 

 female evidently longer than broad, parallel-sided, basal impressions 

 distinct but not large ; elytra with sides a little rounded, with rather 

 strong punctured stria? which, at sides, are more or less evanescent 

 towards apex, first interstice next suture with a row of very fine punc- 

 tures ; sutural stria evidently deepened at apex. L. 2-2} mm. 



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