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flytra are also evidently less punctured ; the punctuation of the thorax 

 ;ilsii is not so close, and the punctures are a little stronger at the sides; 

 the legs are somewhat darker. L. 2-3 mm. 



In mow; rare; Gaterham (Chtrnpion) ; Portsdown Hill, near Portsmouth (Mon- 

 rrwff) ; Hunstiuitou, Norfolk (Blatch) ; Bretby Wood, near Reptou, Hurton-on-Trent 

 ((Jarueys); Bipon ( Waterhouse) ; Scarboroagh (Lawson); Bollin Valley, Cheshire 

 (Chappell) ; Ireland, near Armagh, rare (Johnson). 



A. splendida, All. (glolosa, Foudr., nee 111.). Of the size and 

 shape of A. orbiculari*, to which it is closely allied ; the colour, how- 

 ever, is bluish-black, and the thorax is much less strongly punctured, 

 the punctures being very scattered and obsolete ; the interstices of the 

 elytra are also almost smooth ; the colour and the punctuation of the 

 thorax will separate it from A . globosa ; the mouth is ferruginous, and 

 the antennae entirely testaceous, their joints being thicker than in A. 

 arbiculata ; the posterior tibiae are not dentate, but finely pectinate 

 externally and ciliate at apex ; in the other two species they are dentate. 

 L. 2* -3 mm. 



Very rare ; Whalley, Lancashire, August 4th 7th, 1858 (Power) ; also received 

 by Dr. Power from Mr. Hardy, Manchester ; Mr. Blatch also records it from 

 Hunstanton, Norfolk. 



MNZOPUZX.A, Stephens. 



Only three species are contained in this genus, two of which are found 

 in Europe and one in Ceylon ; they are very small, strongly convex, and 

 gibbose insects, and may be distinguished by having the three apical 

 joints of the antennae enlarged and forming a club ; the head is sunk in 

 the thorax, and the forehead is marked with two deep furrows which 

 cross one another and fonn an X ; the thorax is transverse, and the 

 elytra are produced into a deflexed point at apex ; the posterior femora 

 are only moderately thickened, and in consequence the power of leaping 

 is much less developed than in many of the other genera ; the spur at 

 apex of posterior femora is obsolete or wanting. 



M. muBcorum, Koch. Ovate, globose, very shining, upper surface 

 black with a bronze reflection, under-side pitchy, more or less metallic ; 

 head finely alutaceous, antenna- red ; thorax transverse, with the sides 

 scarcely rounded, not margined at base, almost ini punctate ; elytra 

 gibbose, broader than thorax, rounded at shoulders, with sutural apical 

 angle mucronate, almost smooth at apex, but with regular rows of fine 

 but distinct punctures towards base ; legs red. L. f-1 mm. 



In moss, on stumps of trees, chalky banks, at the side of water-courses in woods, Ac. ; 

 wry local, but common where it occurs ; Birch Wood, Chatham, Farenbam, 

 Westerham, Highgate, Dart-nth, The Holt. Farnham ; Weymontb ; Stonehonse, 

 near Gloucester; Bewdley ; Lang worth Worn!, Lincoln; Ripon ; Scarborough; 

 Northumberland and Durham district; Scotland, Sol way and Tweed districts; th 

 -jK-tica is usually found in the winter, especially in November and Deri-tuber. 



