76 CLAVICORNIA. [Neuraplies. 



Croydon, Woking, Bromley, Chobham, Wanstoad, Esher, Birdbrook, Highgate, 

 Horsell, Lee, Shei-rncss, Westerliam, &c. ; Norfolk ; Acocks Green, near Birmingham ; 

 Repton and Burtou-on-Trent ; Scotland, very rare, Tweed and Forth districts. 



V. minutus, Chaud. (SeydmcEnns pumilio, Schaum ; Neuraplies 

 minutus, Reitter). This variety, which some authors consider a separate 

 species, appears only to differ from type N. Sparshalli by its somewhat 

 smaller form, broader head, and plainer basal fovcse of thorax ; it is also 

 said to be usually of a darker colour, and to have more obtusely pointed 

 elytra, but the differences are very slight, and can hardly be considered 

 specific. L. mm. 



First taken by Mr. Matthews at Gumley, Leicestershire, and by Dr. Power, at Leo 

 pit, Kent, The Holt near Farnham, and Littlington, Cambridge. 



N. long-icollis, Mots (prceteritus, Eye). Fusco-piceous, often with 

 a reddish tinge, with antennae and legs reddish-testaceous, somewhat de- 

 pressed, sparingly pubescent, head with eyes a little narrower than thorax, 

 antennae rather long, plainly thickened to apex, with joints 8-1 transverse ; 

 thorax elongate-quadrate, narrowed in front, and with sides almost straight 

 behind, impunctate, with a transverse furrow at base furnished with one 

 fovea only at each side, and without longitudinal keel before scutellum ; 

 elytra elongate-ovate, sparingly and very obsoletely punctured, with two 

 deep fovese at the base of each ; legs slender, femora thickened at apex. 

 L. 1-1 j mm. 



In moss, &c., generally in company with ants, occasionally by evening sweeping ; 

 rare; Croydon, Weybridge, Erith, Caterham, Darenth, Snodlaud, Strood, Norwood, 

 Forest Hill; Chatham; Folkestone; Isle of Wight; Seaford, Devon. 



In colour and general appearance, as Mr. Rye remarks in his descrip- 

 tion (Ent. Monthly Mag. ix. 6), this species very closely resembles a very 

 small specimen of S. elongatulus, from which it may be known by its more 

 depressed elytra, and impunctate thorax, and also by the absence of a 

 longitudinal keel on thorax before scutellum. 



SCYDBI2ENUS, Latreille. 



The genus Scydmcenus proper contains only about tAventy-five 

 European species, and apparently is less extensive than either Neuraphes 

 or Euconnus ; it resembles the former in having the head short and the 

 eyes approximate to the margins of thorax, but may be easily distin- 

 guished by the cordiform shape of the latter, and by the moderately 

 separated hind coxse ; in all our species (with the exception of S. exilis) 

 there is no transverse furrow at the base of the thorax, but in its place 

 four more or less distinct round fovese ; the genus is easily separated from 

 Euconnus by the formation of the head, which in the latter genus is long 

 and separated from the thorax by a distinct neck, and also has the eyes 

 placed at a considerable distance from the margins of thorax. 



