NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1869. 93 



of which the siitural one is well marked throughout its entire 

 length, and the others are obsolete towards the apex ; the 

 interstices are smooth, and impressed alternately with isolated 

 punctures. In the male, the posterior femora are flattened, 

 cut out below the base, and widened and denticulated in the 

 middle; the anterior tarsi are slightly widened, and the head 

 is distinctly enlarged. 



129. AcxATHiDiUM GLOBOSUM, Muls., Op. Ent. 61, 125 ; 



Gemm. & v. H., 1. c. ; E. C. Rye, 1. c. 250. 

 convexurn-j Sharp. 

 I do not know on what grounds this correction is made by 

 Gemminger and v. Harold. 



130. Saprinus punctulatus, Thomson (Gnathoncus); 



Ent. Ann. 1867; E. C. Rye, 1. c. 

 I have recorded my reasons for thinking this insect only a 

 iorm. oi S. rot undatus ; having examined a large example 

 of that species taken at Lytham by Mr. J. Chappell, of Man- 

 chester, and in which the sutural stria is almost invisible 

 with a strong power, and having found among my small 

 London district specimens, otherwise agreeing with Thom- 

 son's description, some in which the sutural stria is (though 

 always abbreviated) well marked and distinct. 



131. Epur^a silacea, Hbst. ; Er., Ins. Deutschl., iii, 



152; E. C. Rye, 1. c, vi, 106. 

 A few specimens of this, the finest European representative 

 of the genus, were taken by the Rev. Thos. Blackburn, in 

 agarics, on a rotten birch stump, at the foot of Cross Craig, 

 near Camachgouran, Rannoch, in July, 1866; and were at 

 the time recorded, with apparent doubt (E. M. M., iii, 94), 

 as gigantic E, deleta. Compared wdth that species, it is 



