72 Mr. T. V. Wollaston's Revision of 



abundant, and evenly distributed, tlnoiigbout England. I have 

 taken it atSpridlington, near Lincoln; atCransley, in Northampton- 

 shire ; at Basset Down, in Wilts ; at Farmington, in Gloucester- 

 shire ; at Fowey and Penheale, in Cornwall ; at Llangefni and Holy- 

 head, in Anglesey ; in the grounds of Trinity College, Dublin ; 

 and at Rosnalee, in the County of Cork. It has also been captured 

 by Mr. Janson, at Hampstead; by Mr. Waterhouse, at Weybridge ; 

 and by Mr. Morris Young, and Mr. Murray, in Scotland. In 

 the Stephcnsian cabinet, the ^, fulvicollis, thoracica, evanescens, 

 jihceogasler and hasella (except one specimen of the last, which 

 belongs to the alricajnlla) are referrible to the Dennestes pusillus 

 of Paykull. There is also one example mixed up with the 

 A. castanea ; but this is merely, I imagine, the result of 

 accident. 



Sp. 10. Alomar'ia atiicapilla. 



Atomaria fl^)icrt/»7/rt (Kby), Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. iii. p. 66 (1830). 



hasella (p.), Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. iii. p. 65 (1830). 



nitrriceps (Maerk.), Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deuts. iii. p. 



396(1848). 

 rufa, atricapilla et nigriceps, Murray, Cat. Col. Scot. 



p. 41 (1853). 



The oblong form and testaceous hue of this common species — 

 its head, abdomen and scutellary region being alone darker (and 

 often very obscurely so) than the remainder of the surface — will 

 sufficiently characterize it. I have taken it in profusion at Brid- 

 lington, in Yorkshire ; at Mablethorpe, Spridlinglon, and South 

 Ferriby, in Lincolnshire ; at Wittlesea Mere ; at Cransley, in 

 Northamptonshire; at Cromer, in Norfolk ; at Hitcham, in Suffolk; 

 at Southend, in Essex ; at Bletchingley, in Surrey ; at Chepstow, 

 in Monmouthshire ; at Withington and Farmington, in Gloucester- 

 shire ; at Linton and Mount Edgcumbe, in Devon; at Fowey, 

 in Cornwall ; in Lundy Island ; the Isle of Wight ; at Holyhead, 

 in North Wales ; and near Kanturk, in Ireland. It has also been 

 captured by Mr. Waterhouse in the neighbourhood of London 

 (namely, at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham ; Greenhithe and Erith), 

 by Mr. Murray and Mr. Morris Young, in Scotland. The title 

 of nigriceps, by which this insect is known on the Continent, has, 

 in accordance with the law of priority, to give way to that of 

 atricapilla, — a species sufficiently well defined by Mr. Stephens 

 in liis " Illustrations," and unmixed with any other even in his 

 collection. 



