180 SERRICORNIA. [PtinidoB. 



long and rather slender, reddish; thorax coarsely and rugosely punc- 

 tured, with a transverse row of tubercles (which are sometimes not very 

 plain) before middle, and constricted behind middle ; scutellum large ; 

 elytra oblong in both sexes, very much broader than thorax, and longer 

 in proportion than in any of the other species, rather strongly punc- 

 tured in distinct rows, with strongly marked shoulders ; legs reddish, 

 moderately long, and rather slender. L. 3|-5 mm. 



In old posts, &o. ; rare; Cobham, Surrey (Stephens) ; Richmond Purk (Lewis); 

 Purfleet (Rye) ; Orpington (Power) ; Norfolk, Suffolk, Devon ; Swansea ; Northum- 

 berland and Durham district, very rare, Newcastle aud Twizell. 



P. soxpunctatus, Pan:. Of a black or pitchy-black colour, with 

 the forehead and scutellum clothed with white pubescence, and with a 

 spot of white pubescence behind shoulders of elytra, and another 

 (usually double) on each behind middle; the elytra are oblong, and 

 have the shoulders well marked in both sexes; head, with eyes, as broad 

 as thorax ; antennae long and rather robust ; thorax longer than broad, 

 granulose, strongly constricted and depressed behind middle ; scutellum 

 distinct; elytra subparallel, punctured in somewhat irregular rows, 

 interstices furnished with rows of fine setae ; legs reddish, rather stout, 

 with the first joint of the posterior tarsi fully as long as the two follow- 

 ing ; under-side clothed with short thick whitish pubescence. L. 

 3-4 mm. 



In old wood ; occasionally found in houses ; not common ; Putney, Richmond 

 Park, Forest Hill, Blackheath ; Glanvilles Wootton aud Farley, Dorset; Exeter (in 

 houses ; also said to have been taken in a humble-bee's nest in some numbers) ; 

 Repton, Burton-on-Trent 5 Carlisle ; Scotland, Edinburgh. 



P. lichenum, Marsh, (s.g. Pseudoptinus, Eeitt.). Of a dark 

 fuscous or blackish colour, sometimes with a very slight subaeneous 

 reflection, with the thorax convex, and furnished with only a very fine 

 central furrow, and clothed with spots of white scaly pubescence, which 

 are not very apparent except in fresh specimens ; the elytra are marked 

 with rather distinct wavy bands of whitish pubescence ; the sexes are 

 yery different in appearance. L. 2-3 mm. 



Male cylindrical, with the elytra oblong, and with the shoulders well 

 marked, antennae very long, brownish, usually darker at base and 

 lighter at apex ; eyes rather large ; thorax longer than broad, constricted 

 at base, rather roughly sculptured ; elytra with punctured striae ; legs 

 moderately long, ferruginous. 



Female with the elytra oval, subglobose, the eyes smaller, and the 

 antennae much shorter ; the thorax is only as broad as long, and the 

 sculpture of the elytra is a little finer. 



On old palings, &c. ; very local, but occasionally common where it occurs ; 

 Mickleham, Camberwell, Wandsworth, Cobham, Box Hill, Highgate, Croydon ; 

 Drayton, Norfolk ; Windsor; Glanvilles Wootton ; Scotland, very rare, " Raehills," 

 Solway district, Murray's Cat. 



