448 Mr. David Sharp on the 
letely, punctured; sutural stria of the elytra well marked and 
extending more than half-way to the base; metasternum with a 
slightly curved transverse line. ¢ with the anterior and middle 
tarsi dilated at the base, posterior femora truncate at the apex and 
with a well-marked acute tooth; metasternum with a bunch of 
hairs arising from a shallow fovea. 
Long. 14 lin. 
Differs from A. seminulum in its larger size, darker colour, 
more evidently punctured head, longer third joint to the antenne, 
and the different structural characters of the ¢. Common both in 
England and Scotland among dead leaves and moss, occurring also 
now and then in sandpits. 
5. Agathidium varians, Beck. 
Brownish-yellow, shining, disc of the thorax and elytra pitchy 
red, the club of the latter darker ; head with largish but faintly 
impressed and distant punctures, with two shallow foveze between 
the eyes, and an ill-defined transverse impression where the thorax 
meets it; thorax extremely finely and obsoletely punctured ; 
elytra with a sutural stria reaching quite half-way to the base, 
almost impunctate. g with the anterior and middle tarsi slightly 
dilated, and with a slender but elongate bunch of setz on the 
centre of the metasternum ; ? with the tarsi 4, 4,4. The ¢ some- 
times, though rarely, has the left mandible a little prolonged and 
bent at the apex. 
Long. 1 lin. 
Found sometimes in considerable numbers among refuse vege- 
table matter, moss, etc., both in the north and south of England 
and in Scotland. 
6. Agathdium clypeatum, nov. sp. 
Piceum, prothoracis limbo, antennarum scapo, pedibusque tes- 
taceis; capite fere levigato, clypeo depresso; prothorace 
parce et obsolete, elytris parce sed evidentius punctatis, his 
stria suturali medium attingente. 
é tarsis anterioribus et intermediis dilatatis; metasterno fas- 
ciculo pilorum parvo instructo ; mandibula sinistra elongata, 
falcata. 
@ tarsis 4, 4, 4. 
Long. #—1 lin. 
Colour and size of A. varians, but not quite so broad and rather 
more acuminate behind. The underside, the basal eight joints of the 
antenne, and the legs and margins of the thorax, testaceous. Club 
