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



case in the allied species. It is a local insect. I have, never- 

 theless, taken it in considerable abundance at Whittlesea Mere, 

 as also (though less plentifully) at Paxton, in Huntingdonshire ; 

 at Spridlington, South Ferriby and Scavvby, in Lincolnshire ; at 

 Bridlington and Danes Dyke, in Yorkshire ; at Cransley, in 

 Northamptonshire ; at Southend, in Essex ; at Withington, in 

 Gloucestershire; at Llangefni, in Anglesey; and at Killarney, 

 in Ireland. It has also been captured by Mr. Douglas at Shirley, 

 near Croydon ; by Mr. Waterhouse at Weybridge and Green- 

 hithe ; and by Mr. Murray, and Mr. Morris Young, in Scotland, 

 It constitutes the type of the ^. castanea, Steph., — a species, how- 

 ever, which has (in the collection) a specimen of the A. Beroli- 

 nensis and pusilla mixed up with it. It also forms a portion of 

 the A. testacea, Steph. (the type of which species is an immature 

 analis), and the type of the A. riifipes, Steph. : it is fortunate, 

 therefore, amidst so much confusion, that the title of fuscata has 

 the priority over any Stephensian one. 



Sp. 13. Atoviaria gutta. 

 Atomaria gulta, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. v. p. 407 (nee coll.) (1832). 



Newm., Ent. Mag. ii. p. 201 (1834). 



Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deuts. iii. p. 387 (1848). 



The pale, transverse (though sometimes ill-defined) central 

 fascia with which the elytra of this species are adorned, in con- 

 junction with its oval form and exceedingly convex prothorax, 

 will serve to separate it from the remainder of the British Atomarice. 

 Occasionally the apex, also, of the elytra, as well as the dorsal 

 fascia, is testaceous ; and I have one example in which the two 

 are confluent : in English specimens, however, the medial dash is 

 usually alone pale. It is, apparently, extremely rare. I have 

 taken it at Whittlesea Mere, in Huntingdonshire ; and Mr. Water- 

 house has met with it at Reigate. 



Although Mr. Stephens's description applies, without doubt, to 

 this conspicuously marked insect, it is to be observed that the spe- 

 cimens, in his cabinet, are not referrible to the A. gutta, but to the 

 A. apicalis. 



Sp. 14. Atomaria atra. 

 Kaleretes ater, Hbst, Kaf. v. p. 15, Tab. 41, fig. 5 (1793). 

 Atomaria atra, Erich., Nat. der Ins. Deuts. iii. p. 392 (1848). 



The oblong-ovate form, and rather strongly punctured surface, 

 of the A. atra, in conjunction with its dark hue (the apex of the 

 elytra being alone obscurely fuscescent) and very convex pro- 



