142 Mr. G. R, Waterhouse's Revision of the 



tlie length of the thorax, but very little exceeding tliat segment in 

 width ; the sides nearly parallel ; the apex rounded ; the upper 

 surface but little convex and very finely punctate-striate, with a 

 row of excessively minute punctures between the striae, from 

 which spring minute hairs, which are scarcely visible, however, 

 excepting under the microscope. Presents the same jDeculiarities 

 of the tibiae and anterior tarsi as in the preceding species. 



Two specimens of this species stand in Stephens' Cabinet to 

 represent the C. linearis of the " Illustrations," but the description 

 there given is taken from Gyllenhal, and belongs to another insect, 

 which is unknown to me as British. In Mr. Wollaston's Collection 

 there are also specimens of this insect. I possess one or two old 

 specimens, taken by myself many years back, but am unaware of 

 the locality ; others I have taken more recently in the corridors of 

 the Crystal Palace upon two or three different occasions. It is 

 rare, or very local. 



9. Corlicaria gibbosa. C. brevis, convexa, fusca ; thorace an- 

 gusto, fovea transversa, arcuata, impresso ; elytris amplis, 

 convexis, punctato-striatis, intersticiis punctis minutissimis, 

 pilisque pallidis seriatim dispositis ; antennarum basi, pedi- 

 busque testaceis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Mas. tibiis anticis intus ante apicem angulatim productis. 



Dermestes gibbosus, Payk. Faun. Suec. i. 301, 32. 

 Corlicaria impressa, Marsh. Ent. Brit. 100, 11; Steph. Col- 

 lection. 



pallida, Marsh. 1. c. 112, 22 ; Steph. Illustr. iii. 109, 



10; Manual, 130, 1056, and Collection. 

 Latridius gibbosus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. 132, 10. 

 Corlicaria gibbosa, Steph. 111. iii. 109, 8; Manual, 130, 1054. 



similata, Steph. Collection (not of description). 



. gibbosa, Mannerh. Germ. Zeitschr. v. 49, 40. 

 sulcicollis, of Kirby's Collection. 



The smallest, and one of the commonest of the British species, 

 and readily distinguished by its short form, combined with a narrow 

 thorax, having a curved fovea towards the hinder part and extend- 

 ing almost to the lateral margin. The head is nearly as broad as the 

 thorax, and has very prominent eyes. Thorax small in proportion 

 to the elytra, about equal in length and breadth, the sides gently 

 rounded, the broadest part rather in front of the middle, thence 

 rather suddenly contracted towards the front, and more gradu- 



