NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1868. 31 



cle?idus, in \vhich the 7th segment only is emarginate. Un- 

 fortunately, Thomson does not seem to be aware of the 

 character afforded by the abdominal keels above alluded to; 

 in his original description of succicola, also, there is appa- 

 rently a mistake ; for, in comparing it with carhonarius, he 

 says that its head is less than in that insect : whereas, 

 according to his own diagnosis and description the head in 

 succicola is scarcely narrower than the thorax, and in car- 

 honarius it is stated to be narrower than the thorax, without 

 any qualification. 



I may remark that I have taken a specimen of P. adden- 

 dus in Coombe Wood. It has apparently been observed 

 only in the north of England (Bold) and Scotland (Sharp). 



26. Philonthus nigriventris. Thorns., Skand. Col. ix, 



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



Dr. Sharp records this recently described species as found 

 sparingly at Thornhill, Dumfries, in a dead partridge, and 

 also in a heap of cut grass. I have for some time had two 

 specimens of it in my collection, turned aside under cepha- 

 lotes and foj-gotten. They were taken at my first visit to 

 Rannoch. 



The insect is of the build and size o^ sordidus, from which 

 it is instantly distinguishable by the very close punctuation 

 of its elytra. It is also closely allied to cephaloteSy but is 

 less than that species, with the elytra more closely and 

 deeply punctured, the abdomen black beneath, the legs 

 darker, &c. 



27. Xantholinus picipes, Thoms., Skand. Col., ii, p. 



190; id., ix, p. 177; G. R. Crotch, 1. c, p. 68. 

 Mr. Crotch states that he has specimens from several 



