Heterocems.] CLAVICORNIA. 389 



behind middle, strongly constricted towards base, very distinctly im- 

 pressed with three parallel lines on disc, posterior angles prominent and 

 acute, anterior angles strongly deflexed ; elytra ovate, very convex, twice as 

 long as and much broader than head and thorax, broadest behind middle, 

 strongly attenuated at shoulders, finely and closely tuberculate, and fur- 

 nished besides here and there with larger tubercles, apex obtuse, lighter ; 

 pygidium very obtuse ; legs rather long, clear yellow ; antenna} long, 

 pitchy, lighter at base. L. 1 mm. 



Mr. Matthews says that the species appears to be very rare, that 

 he has found it in Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, and that he has 

 met with it in two continental collections, in both of which it was 

 labelled "Ft, affine ;" and he adds, " This large and very distinct species 

 has, owing to the parallel lines on its thorax, been confounded with 

 Pt. affine, Er., but with the exception of the thoracic lines, differs 

 entirely from that species in size, form, colour, and sculpture." 



(Mr. E. A. Waterhouse (Eat. Monthly Mag. xxv. 133) records the following species 

 from the neighbourhood of Sandwich : Ocypus pedatnr, Grav. ; Thalycra, sericea, 

 Sturm ; Agaricophagus cephalotes, Schmidt ; Scydmcenus (Neuraphes) angulatus, 

 Mull.; elongatulus, Mull. ; and prceteritus, Rye (longicollis, Mots.); and also the 

 very rare Anisotoma picea, 111. ; Synchita juglandis has occurred in St. Leonard's 

 Forest ; this record was omitted on p. 191 ; it is possible after all that we may have 

 more than one species of Synchita in Britain, but the question requires to be more 

 fully worked out.) 



