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a common space, leaving a large black triangle about scutellum, lateral 

 stria wanting, dorsal .striae crenul ate, either all entire, or with sutural 

 stria abbreviated ; propygidium diffusely punctured, pygidium almost 

 smooth ; anterior tibiae with four teeth, of which the hindmost is often 

 minute. L. 3|-4 mm. 



In dunpr, hot-beds, haystack refuse, &c. ; rather common and generally distributed 

 from the Midlands southwards ; rarer further north ; Scotland, rare, Lowlands, Sol- 

 way, Clyde, and Forth districts ; Ireland, near Dublin. 



This species and the preceding may be known from all the others by 

 the structure of the metasternum and prosternum. 



CARCXNOPS, Marscul. 



This genus contains about thirty or forty species, of which only three 

 are found in Europe, the remainder occurring in North, Central, and 

 South America, Africa, &c. ; they may be known by having the anterior 

 tibue only dilated, and by the fact that four or five of the dorsal striie 

 are entire ; this latter character will separate our species from Gnat/ioncus, 

 Avhich they somewhat resemble in size and general appearance. 



I. Size smaller; frontal stria wanting; striae of elytra very 

 fine ............... . . . C. MINIMA, Aule. 



II. Size larger; frontal stria entire; striae of elytra coarse 

 and crenulate . . ............. C. 14 STEIATA, Stepfi. 



C. minima, Aube (corpuscula, Mars.). Oval, round, rather convex, 

 thickly punctured ; shining black or pitch-black ; antenna} and legs 

 red ; frontal stria wanting ; thorax finely bordered, more strongly and 

 thickly punctured at base ; elytra raised at suture, with four dorsal striae 

 entire, fine, the others obsolete ; elytra scarcely more feebly punctured 

 than thorax; anterior tibiae dilated, with three teeth. L. 1-lf mm. 



In haystack and flood refuse, moss, &c. ; local; London district, common and 

 generally distributed; Margate ; Kingsgate; Bognor ; Hurstpierpoiut; Hastings ; New 

 Forest; Hunstanton ; Wey mouth i,at roots of grass in sandy places) ; Chesil Bjach ; 

 Salford Priors (in fungi oil ash log) ; llepton, near Burtou-ou-Trent. I know of 110 

 locality further iiorth, and it has not occurred in Scotland. 



C. 14-striata, Steph. (jpwfm'Z/o, Er. ; Epierus Ik-striatus, Steph.). 

 Very much larger than the preceding, oblong-ovate, somewhat depressed ; 

 shining pitchy-black or brownish ; antennae and legs ferruginous, club of 

 former lighter or darker testaceous ; upper surface punctured, the elytra 

 very finely, the thorax more coarsely especially at sides ; thorax with 

 marginal stria entire; elytra with all the dorsal striae entire, strong, and 

 crenulate, sutural stria entire, straight ; anterior tibiae strongly dilated, 

 with two large teeth which are widely separated. L. 2-2| mm. 



In rubbish, carr'on, &c. ; rare; Battersea Fields (Stephens); Sherwool Forest 

 (Blatch); Scarborough (Lawsou); Jarrow and South Shields (Bold). 



