NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 18fc)9. 99 



Ptinus lichenum. Like all the Ptinidce, it seems to vary 

 considerably in size; — the largest specimen under my notice 

 being rather smaller than the smallest N. crenatus. 



It seems impossible to believe that this species really pos- 

 sesses such a range as from the Canaries to the Orkneys; or 

 that it can have occurred in the latter islands except through 

 some exceptional and accidental circumstance. In this view 

 I am corroborated by Mr. Wollaston's opinion. 



143. Cis VESTITUS, Mellie, Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 



1848. p. 354 ; E. C. Rye, 1. c, vi, 5. 



I possess a single example of this species, given to me by 

 Mr. T. Morley, who took it in the neighbourhood of Man- 

 chester. 



It is about the size of C. festivus, but is narrower and 

 flatter than that insect, with rather shining, irregularly and 

 closely punctured elytra, which are covered with pile, as in 

 hispidus. Its dull, very closely punctured thorax is narrower 

 and more contracted in front than in any of our recorded 

 species of Cis. 



M. Brisout has corroborated this species for me. 



144. MoRDELLiSTENA BREvicAUDA, Boh., V. A. Haudl., 



1849,2-23; Thomson, Skand. Col, vi, 297; E. C. 

 Rye, 1. c, 86. 

 Taken by myself in profusion, chiefly in the flowers of 

 Ilieracium, on the hill-sides at the back of Folkestone, in 

 June last, and also incidentally mentioned by Mr. G. R. 

 Crotch as being found by him mixed with M, pumila in his 

 collection. 



Compared with that insect, it is larger, broader, and duller ; 

 its thorax is not so long, with the base less strongly sinuate 

 on each side and the hinder angles rather obtuse, and not 



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