84 CLAV1CORNIA. [Eiltliid. 



the early spring of 18S3, and subsequently by Mr. Blatcli and Mr. Homer in tbe 

 same locality. 



E. Schaumi, Kies (alltreviatella, Thorns.). Fufco-piceous with the 

 elytra testaceous or brownish-testaceous, antennae palpi and legs reddish- 

 testaceous ; somewhat depressed, with very fine, short, and somewhat 

 thick silky pubescence ; head narrower than thorax, eyes large and rather 

 prominent, antennae long, with distinct three-jointed club ; thorax scarcely 

 broader than long, with sides feebly rounded in front before middle, 

 plainly but variably punctured, the punctuation being sometimes as 

 close as that of elytra and sometimes decidedly less close, base depressed 

 and foveate ; elytra rather long and parallel-sided, very finely and rather 

 closely punctured ; abdomen and pygidium pitchy-brown, apex of latter 

 lighter; legs slender. L. 1-| If mm. 



In liot-beds, under bones, also under poplar-bark, &c. ; rare; Felixstowe (Water- 

 bouse); Knowle and Small Heatb near Birmingham and Wicken Fen (Blanch); 

 Repton (Garneys) ; it has been taken near Glasgow, and I have a specimen taken by 

 Mr. Beaumont in Scotland, without any locality attached. 



S. plicata, Gyll. Very like the preceding, but larger and more 

 shining, and with the elytra of a bright rufo-castaneous colour ; it may 

 moreover be easily distinguished by the very gradual club of the antennas, 

 and its much more sparing and very fine punctuation ; it is the largest 

 of our British species of Eathia. L. If mm. 



Under bark, in company with ants ; a'so in cut grass, flood refuse, &c., and occa- 

 sionally by evening sweeping; rare; Shirley, Caterham, Miekleham, Surbiton, 

 Leytonstone, Esher; Whittlesea; Buddon Wood, Leicestershire (in nests of Formica 

 ri'fa) ; Stretford, near Manchester. 



CEPHENNIUIVI, Mull. 



Eleven species only are enumerated in the Munich catalogue as be- 

 longing to this genus, but in the last European catalogue about forty 

 species are mentioned from Europe alone, so that in all probability the 

 genus is an extensive one ; it differs from Eutlda in having the apex of 

 elytra rounded and the pygidium covered, and in the sculpture of the 

 base of the thor.ix; two species have usually been regarded as British, 

 but the second appears merely to be a variety of the first; the members 

 of the genus are found under leaves, in moss, &c., in company with 

 species of Seydmaenus. 



C. thoracicum, Mull. (Scydmanus tlwracicus, Denny). Pitchy- 

 black or obscurely castaneous, or with the thorax reddish and the elytra 

 pitchy, or entirely reddish, of a short and broad, almost parallel, form, 

 clothed with fine yellowish pubescence ; head nearly always ferruginous, 

 email, triangular, antennae slender, reddish yellow, with the three last 

 joints forming a club, the last being nearly as long as the two preceding ; 

 thorax very large and convex, wider in front than elytra, a little con- 

 tracted at base, scarcely punctured, without basal fovea> ; elytra long 



