68 COLEOPTERA. 



29. Deliphrum crenatum, Grav., Micr. 114, 4 (Oma- 



lium) ; Erichson, Gen. et Spec. Staph. 873, 2 ; 



G. R. Crotch, Ent. 27, p. 60. 



Omalium 14 Sj) ? Wat. Cat. 



Taken in Scotland by Turner. It is quite unlike any 

 other British species, being very much larger than, and of a 

 different facies to, the little D. tectum; with which, as Mr. 

 Crotch aptly ?ays, it appears to have no generic characters 

 in common. It has much the appeaiance of Homalium 

 florale; fiom which it may be readily distinguished by its 

 longer antennae, punctate- striate elytra, and sparingly but 

 visibly punctured abdomen. 



30. Homalium septentrionis. Thorns., Skand. Col. iii, 



211,2; W. Henderson, Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. ii, p. 



205. 

 Mr. Henderson records the discovery of a single example 

 of this insect among some captures made by himself in the 

 Isle of Arran in August, 1864; and Mr. Sharp has also 

 found a specimen among his Rannoch captures. It differs 

 from H. rivulare in being much more strongly and closely 

 punctured, and less shining, with its elytra narrower in pro- 

 portion to the thorax, the sides of which are less rounded, and 

 by the five basal joints of its antennae being red. Its much 

 stronger punctuation will serve to distinguish it from H. ri- 

 parhwif another of its allies. 



31. Homalium Heerii, (Chevrier) Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. 



i, 571, 3 (Phloeono77ius) ; T. Blackburn, Ent. Mo. 



Mag. vol. iii, p. 93. 

 Found in some numbers by Mr. Blackburn in fungi on 

 rotten birches, near Rannoch, in July last ; one or two spe- 

 cimens, also, were taken in the early part of the year at the 



