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witli distinct striae, which are plainly punctured, and usualty become 

 obsolete near apex ; interstices Hat, finely punctured in more or less 

 irregular rows, legs reddish or pitchy-red. L. 2-2| mm. 



Under bark of pines, elms, oaks, and many other trees ; also in ants' nests ; common 

 and generally distributed over the greater part of England and probably Ireland ; it 

 is apparently less common further north ; Mr. Bold records it as rare from the 

 Northumberland district, and Dr. Sharp says that it is local in Scotland in the Tay 

 and Dee districts, Mr. Blatch has taken a large mahogany-br.wn coloured variety 

 in great profusion in Buddon Wood, Leicestershire, in nests of Formica rufa, 



V. longicolle, Reitt. This appears to be a form of Reitter's v. caucasicnm 

 of (7, histeroides, which is chiefly distinguished by its longer thorax. In 

 Dr. Sharp's collection there is a specimen answering to my specimen from 

 Herr Reitter, which is labelled as " bought from Turner; " no locality, 

 however, is attached. 



C. fag-i, Bris. (forticorne, Muls.). Broader and more convex than 

 C. histeroides, and with the elytra more dilated in front ; the antennae 

 are shorter and stouter, ferruginous, with the first and last joints lighter, 

 and the thorax is evidently more strongly and much more sparingly 

 punctured, especially on disc, and at the base is furnished with larger 

 impressions, which are oblong, and more distinct than in the preceding 

 species ; the thorax, moreover, is almost parallel-sided in the male, and 

 evidently narrowed in front in the female ; the striae of the elytra are 

 rather finely punctured, and the interstices, as a rule, are almost smooth. 

 L. 2-2| mm. 



Under bark and in rotten wood, especially of beech ; not common ; Chatham, 

 Sevenoaks, Cobham Park, Twickenham, St. Mary Cray, Mickleham, T;lgate, Darenth ; 

 The Holt, Farnham ; Dean Forest. 



V. excavat'tim, Fowler. This variety has the basal impressions of 

 thorax continued nearly to the anterior margin, leaving a more or less 

 defined broad raised longitudinal space in middle. 



Warlingham, Surrey ; three or four specimens have been taken in this locality by 

 Mr. W. T. Saunders ; they may possibly be identical with C.foveolatum, Baudi, but 

 I have never seen a specimen of this species; it is, moreover, omitted in the last 

 European catalogue, and is unknown to Herr Reitter, who is the chief authority on the 

 European species. 



C. ferrugineum, Steph. (anyustatum, Er.). Rufo-ferruginous, 

 oblong, parallel-sided ; smaller and narrower than (7. histe.roides, to im- 

 mature specimens of which species it bears a considerable resemblance ; 

 thorax rather strongly punctured, thickly at sides less thickly on disc, 

 in male a little longer than broad, very slightly widened in front, in 

 female evidently longer than broad, parallel-sided, basal impressions 

 distinct but not large ; elytra with sides a little rounded, with rather 

 strong punctured stria? which, at sides, are more or less evanescent 

 towards apex, first interstice next suture with a row of very fine punc- 

 tures ; sutural stria evidently deepened at apex. L. 2-2j mm. 



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