NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1868. 25 



20. Aleochara cuniculorum, Kraatz, Ann. de la Soc. 

 Ent. de France, 1858, clxxxix; Berl. Ent. Zeit., 

 1862, 318. 



maculafa, Brisout, Gi'en., Cat. et Mat.,&c, 

 18, 1863. 



The insect taken by myself at Shirley sand-pits (and also, 

 I believe, by Drs. Sharp and Power at Aberlady) represents 

 the A. bisignata of Waterhouse's Catalogue, and must, I 

 think, be referred to the above species. In Erichson's bis?g- 

 nata, the intermediate joints of the antennae are described as 

 " trarisversis^ longitudine plus duplo crassiorihus ;'^ whereas 

 in my insect they are, as in cuniculorum ^^Xmost longer than 

 bioad. The thorax, also, would seem to be more transverse 

 in the true hisignntay which apparently is so like nithla that 

 Kraatz scarcely thinks it worth while to describe it fully. 

 The species which I think to be cuniculorum y however, 

 could not for a moment be confounded with nitida, beinr^ 

 longer, thinner, with much more slender antennae and legs. 

 The legs, indeed, are so markedly narrow and long that I 

 wonder no stress is laid upon them in Dr. Kraatz's descrip- 

 tion of cuniculorum. 



It has, I believe, been for a long time suspected that our 

 hhignata was not the true species of that name. 



21. OxYPODA FLAvicoRNis, Kraatz, Ins. Deutschl., ii, 185;, 

 D. Sharp, Ent. M. Mag., vol. v, p. 101. 



Dr. Sharp records the capture by himself of two speci- 

 mens of this insect among decaying fir bi-anches, on the 

 Pinkard Hills, late in the autumn of 1864. 



It is of the size and build of O. h(BviorrJwa, but dis- 

 tinguishable from that species through its thicker pubescence, 



