HajJocnemut.] SERRICOHNIA. 165 



in my single specimen the thorax is much more finely punctured, but 

 this does not appear to be always the case. L. 3^-4 mm. 



Found nnder the same circumstances as the preceding ; rnre ; formerly taken in 

 Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens (S. Stevens) ; Hastings (Butler) ; New Forest ; 

 Leicestershire, Markfield, &c. ; Yorkshire, by beating birches in woods, July (Alien 

 Hurker) ; Ripon (WaU'rhoune). 



PHNEOPHILINA. 



This tribe contains the single genus Phlceophiltts, the position of 

 which has been considerably disputed ; in many respects it bears rather 

 a strong resemblance to Haplocnemus and its allies, but differs in the 

 shape of its antennae, which are moniliform, with the three last joints 

 larger ; all the tarsal claws are simple. 



PHZiCCOPHXXiUS, Stephens. 



One species only belongs to this genus ; it is very local, but occurs 

 somewhat commonly under bark in some districts where it is found ; 

 it is rather widely distributed in Central Europe, but has not, appa- 

 rently, been found in the northern portions of the Continent. 



P. Edwards!, Steph. Oblong, rather short and broad, moderately 

 shining, rather scantily clothed with coarse greyish pubescence, hi ad 

 and thorax fuscous, elytra of a dirty testaceous colour with the lateral 

 margins fuscous and with variable wavy dark bands and markings ; 

 head rather small, thickly punctured, with the eyes small, but distinct 

 and prominent, antennae as long as the head and thorax, moniliform, 

 with the last three joints thickened and forming a distinct club ; 

 thorax more than double as broad as long, narrowed in front, thickly 

 punctured, with posterior angles blunt ; scutellum rather small, trans- 

 verse ; elytra rather broader than thorax, snbparallel, slightly wider 

 behind middle, closely and rather strongly punctured ; legs testaceous 

 or brownish, more or less infuscate. L. If -3 mm. 



Under bark and in rotten wood ; occasionally by sweeping; rare, but rather widely 

 distributed, and sometimes taken in fair numbers where it occurs ; Cater- 

 ham, Shirley, Weybridge, Esher, Cobham, Burnet, Tonbridge; ilickleham (by 

 beating hedges in autumn); Maidstone; West Grinstead ; Portsmouth district; 

 (jl.mvillea Wootton (holly bushes, &c.); Leominster; Gumley, Market Harborough, 

 and Sherwood Foreat (Rev. A. Matthews, who has taken it in some numbers in the 

 latter locality by beating the old dead boughs on standing trees in October) ; 

 Cambridge ; Derbyshire ; Ripon (Waterhouse). 



According to the Munich catalogue, this family contains seventy-five 

 genera and just seven hundred species ; this number has, however, been 



