38 STAPHYLINID^. 



narrowed in front than behind, rather finely and thickly pnnctured 

 and with rather long and thick pubescence ; elytra as long as the 

 thorax, somewhat coarsely punctured ; hind body with the front dorsal 

 segments moderately strongly and thickly punctured, more strongly 

 and diffusely punctured behind ; male with the eighth dorsal segment 

 sharply toothed on its hind margin. L. 5|-6 mm. 



An immature specimen was taken by Commander J. J. Walker in 

 sheep-dung at Queendown Warren, Chatham, and a specimen was found 

 before this among Dr. Capron's insects by Mr. Champion ; most of his 

 captures were from Shiere, Surrey, but no locality was attached to this 

 specimen. 



Mr. Champion, in introducing the insect (Ent. Mo. Mag. xliii. (2 

 Ser. xviii.) p. 102), says that "A. discipennis may be briefly described 

 as a small A . fuscijjes, with the antennae formed much as in ^. lanuginosa. 

 The elytra are shorter than the prothorax, rufescent, with the sutural 

 region and the sides inf uscate, much as in Oxj/poda lividipeniiis and its 

 allies. The hind body is somewhat densely punctured towards the 

 base and more sparsely towards the apex, a character separating 

 A. discipennis from all the forms of A. succicola. The elytral punctua- 

 tion is finer and denser than in A. lanuginosa. A. discij^ennis is found 

 in France, the Alps, the Pyrenee?, Tyrol, &c., and is apparently not 

 rare. I have recorded it from Moncayo, North Spain." Ganglbauer 

 records the species as rare, and as occurring in France, Switzerland, the 

 Tyrol and the Caucasus. 



A. brevipennis, Gr,, var. curta. Sahib. {= fumata, 'Er., nee Gr.). 

 In vol. ii. p. IJr, this form is referred to as fu/tnata, Gr., in error, as 

 A. onycetopkaga, Kr., is a synonym of fumata, Gr. It should be 

 fumata, Er., which is a synonym for the var. c^irta. Sahib., of hrevi-jiennis, 

 Gr. Dr. Nicholson, who has pointed this out to us, has recently taken 

 this form in Epping Forest. 



A. (Polychara) crassiuscula, Sahib., Ins. Fenn. i. 396. Sub- 

 elongate, somewhat broad, sub-parallel, moderately convex, finely and 

 ■densely pubescent, the pubescence being wholly decumbent ; black, 

 moderately shiny, with the elytra yellowish-i'ed or testaceous, with a 

 common, more or less distinct, dark triangular patch at the base of the 

 suture, and with the sides also darker, mouth, base of the antennse and 

 legs rufo-piceous, the knees and tarsi paler ; antennfe distinctly thickened 

 with the second and third joints about equal and the fourth distinctly 

 smaller than the fifth ; thorax large, moderately transverse, narrowed 

 in front, finely punctured ; elytra distinctly shorter and almost narrower 

 than thorax, finely, but distinctly and somewhat roughly punctured, 

 somewhat broadly rounded at their posterior external angles. Hind 

 body rather long, sub-parallel, uniformly, distinctly, and thickly 

 punctured to apex. 



Male with the sixth abdominal segment sub-sinuously or simply 

 truncate, and very finely and obsoletely crenulate along the apical 

 margin. Sixth ventral segment sinuate on the sides and sub-acutely 



