86 Mr. A. Murray on the Genus Cercyon. 



should come between C. flavipes and C melanocephalum. It has 

 the head and prothorax black, the elytra red, paler at the extre- 

 mity, furnished with a kind of black T covering the internal half 

 of the base and a third of the suture. It is more oviform and 

 more regularly convex than C flavipes, and its elytra are not 

 obscure in the middle. It is a Sicilian species and not likely to 

 be found in this country. 



B. Intervals of the elytra appearing smooth. 

 Obs. These intervals when examined by a strong lens are found to be 

 obsoletely covered with confluent punctures, and have a silky ap- 

 pearance. 



C. minutum, Fab., Steph., Muls. 

 triste, Illig. (not Gyll.). 

 leevigatum, Kirby, Steph. 

 convexior. Marsh., Steph. 

 convexius, Kirby, Steph. 

 convexiusculum. Marsh., Steph. 



Oviform, convex, chestnut-black or black above. Head and 

 prothorax finely punctate. Elytra passing to brownish red at 

 the extremity ; striae punctate, slight and less distinct posteriorly ; 

 intervals appearing smooth and silky. Mesosternal blade ovular. 



Length f to 1 line. 



This is easily distinguished from the rest by the elytra, which 

 have a dull, opake, silky or greasy appearance, and have the in- 

 tervals apparently impunctate. C. luguh^e is the only other 

 which has elytra with the intervals impunctate ; but C. minutum 

 is less convex than it, and has a less decided patch of red at the 

 apex; besides, the strise disappear before the apex, which in lu- 

 gubre they do not. 



Occasional. 



C luguhre, Payk., Erich., Heer. 



Oviform, very convex and shining black above. Head and 

 prothorax finely punctate. Elytra testaceous red towards the 

 extremity, with eleven narrow strise slightly punctate and a little 

 deeper behind. Mesosternal blade oval, twice as long as broad. 



Length | to ^ of a line. 



I cannot say whether this species is found in Britain or not. 

 I have seen no specimen of it, but Stephens records the species 

 as found in the London district and in Norfolk and Suffolk. It 

 can only be confounded with C. minutum, from which the di- 

 stinctions I have specified under it will distinguish it. 



Erichson describes a Swiss species, C. granarium, Erich., as 

 closely allied to this, principally distinguished by the second ar- 

 ticle of the palpi being much thicker. 



