202 CLAVICORNIA. [Hister. 



K. succicola, Thoms. Allied to the preceding species, but easily 

 distinguished by the frontal stria which is always entire and biarcuate, 

 and by the prosternal process not being truncate at apex, as well as by 

 having the pygidium more thickly and finely punctured, and the epi- 

 pleurae rugosely punctured ; the habitat also is usually different. L. 

 5 -7 mm. 



In carcases, putrid fungi, and at sap of trees; local; Darenth Wood, Suvenoaks, 

 Mickleham, Esher, Ashtead, Shirley, Dulwich, Birch Wood ; Knowle ; Cannock 

 Chase; Bewdley ; Sherwood Forest (in carcase); Repton ; Northumberland district, 

 not uncommon in fungi ; Scotland, common, Lowlands and Highlands, in decaying 

 vegetable matter, Solvvay and Tay districts, &c. 



K. stercorarius, Hoff. Black, shining, rather elongate and 

 parallel-sided ; frontal stria entire, semicircular, slightly depressed at 

 vertex ; thorax short with one lateral stria which is someAvhat remote 

 from margin ; elytra rather finely striated, the lateral stria being very 

 short, abbreviated behind, arid usually also in front, the next three entire ; 

 the sutural stria much abbreviated in front, sides scarcely dilated ; pygi- 

 dium thickly and coarsely punctured, but not quite so coarsely as propy- 

 gidium ; tibiae much dilated, anterior pair with three or four broad strong 

 teeth. L. 5 mm. 



Tn dung, &c. ; rave ; Liverpool district ; recorded by Stephens as not uncommon in 

 the vicinity of London, and also from Netley, Norfolk, and Swansea ; it does not, 

 however, appear to have been taken near London for many years, and Stephens' record 

 may be in error. 



The species may be known from the others that have but one lateral 

 stria on thorax by its more parallel form, very short marginal stria of 

 elytra, and the dentation of the anterior tibia?. 



K. purpurascens, Herbst. (castanipes, Steph.). Black, shining; 

 oval, not very convex ; frontal stria entire ; thorax rather short with one 

 strong lateral stria ; elytra somewhat dilated in middle, with a large ill- 

 defined reddish or purplish patch on each ; the colour is sometimes 

 diffused over the whole elytra, and very rarely the elytra are quite black 

 ( V. niger, Er.) ; the marginal and four dorsal striae are entire, and the 

 sutural stria reaches a little beyond middle ; pygidium a little less 

 strongly and thickly punctured than pro pygidium ; anterior tibise with 

 five teeth, of which the apical one is bifid. L. 3|-4| mm. 



In moss, cut grass, vegetable refuse, bottoms of haystacks, &c. ; rather common and 

 generally distributed in the London district ; Deal ; Whitstable ; Swansea ; Knowle ; 

 Leicestershire; Wicken Fen; Sherwood Forest; Cheshire; Lancashire; Northum- 

 berland district, rare ; Scotland, Lowlands, rare, in sandy places, Clyde and Moray 

 districts ; Ireland, near Belfast and Dublin. 



K. marg-inatus, Er. This species is distinguished from the two 

 following by its smaller size and suborbicular outline, and also by having 

 the marginal stria of the elytra entire and a rudiment of a fifth dorsal 



