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at base with a little spine ; according to Thomson the anterior and 

 posterior trochanters are slightly prominent in the form of a tooth. 



In nio>s, haystack and vegetable refuse, decaying seaweed, &c. ; often by sweeping 

 hedges, Ac., in early summer ; somewlmt local, but generally distributed, and, as a 

 rule, common from the midland counties southwards ; much rarer further north ; in 

 fact I know of no record from any place in England north of Kepton, Burton-on- 

 Trent, nor has it been recorded from Scotland ; it probably occurs in Ireland. 



A. bimaculatus, 111. (Eonius bimaculatu*, Thorns.). Larger and 

 more convex than any of the preceding species ; pale testaceous, rather 

 dull, clothed with fine whitish pubescence, with the metasternum and abdo- 

 men, and a small spot on each elytron behind middle near suture fuscous ; 

 the elytral spots are sometimes obsolete or almost absent, and sometimes 

 are enlarged and meet at suture ; head broad and rather large, rounded 

 behind, very finely and closely punctured, with a more or less distinct 

 smooth raised central line ; eyes black, moderately prominent ; antennas 

 rather long, reaching to middle of body ; thorax short, cordiform, as 

 broad at least as the head, and about as broad as long, very closely and 

 finely punctiired ; elytra oval, broad, and very convex, slightly nar- 

 rowed behind, punctuation very close, but not so fine as on 

 thorax ; legs moderately long, with the femora somewhat dilated. L. 

 4-5 mm. 



On sandhills ; very rare ; first taken by Mr. J. Chappell at Southport, Lancashire, 

 in the summer of 1859, and afterwards by Mr. Harris, of Bnrton-on-Trent, t 

 Wallasey, Cheshire, in the same district ; it has occurred very sparingly. 



XYLOPHILIDJE. 



Although I feel vet}' averse to multiplying tribes and families more 

 than can be possibly helped, I have, after much consideration, adopt d 

 this family of Thomson's, to include the genus Euglenes, Weetwood, 

 which is UOAV apparently considered as synonymoiis with Xylophilns, 

 Latr., and is divided by Mul. ant and other authors into the genera 

 Olotelus, Anidorus, Euglenes, and Adei-us ; Lacordaire classes the genus 

 with the Pedilidse, but certain modern writers place it with the 

 AnthicidtB ; the Pedilidae, as ordinarily constituted, are, at the best, a 

 very weak family ; the Pedilina bear a rather strong affinity to the 

 Anthicina in the fact of having the head strongly constricted at a con- 

 siderable distance behind the eyes and in other points, but it mnst be 

 admitted that they differ in certain other particulars, and approach the 

 Xylophilidae in their more or less emarginate eyes and in having the 

 hind coxie approximate ; Dr. Horn and Dr. Leconte solve the difficulty 

 by including under the Anthicidas all the Anthicites and Pedilides of 

 Lacordaire, with the exception of Scraptia, which they place under the 

 Melandryidre ; if, however, Scrajrfia is to be placed under the latter 

 family, then Euylenes cert&iuh ought to follow suit, especially as through 



