STAPH YLINID.'E. Si 



than the next two together, and slightly longer than the last joint. 

 L. o|-6J mm. 



Plymouth (Keys); St. Margaret's Bay, Plymouth (Beaumont); 

 Bury, in wasps' nest (Tuck) ; Lee, Kent (Champion) ; Isle of Sheppey 

 (Walker) ; Shirley, Surrey, and Gibside, Durham (Donisthorpe) ; Solway 

 Firth, Cumberland (Britten) ; Birkdale (Chaster and Sopp) ; Here- 

 fordshire (Tomlin) ; Wimbledon Common (Nicholson). This species, 

 as Mr. Keys points out (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxviii. (2 Ser. xiii.), 1902, 

 147), can hardly be regarded as new to Britain, as it is enumerated by 

 Mr. T. V. WoUaston in his " Note on the Coleoptera of the South of 

 Ireland " (Zoologist, 1847, pp. 1570-6), and it is also ascribed to Great 

 Britain, on the authority of Wollaston, by Fauvel in his Faune Gallo- 

 Rhenane, vol. iii. p. 524 ; it has never, howevei', been recognised 

 hitherto in our Bi'itish Catalogues. The species diflers considerably in 

 size and colour ; it is, perhaps, most closely allied to Q. maurorufus, 

 Grav., from which it may at once be known by its colour, average 

 smaller size, rather wider elytra, &c. ; it is rather widely distributed in 

 Western Europe from Norway and Sweden to Piedmont. 



PHILONTHUS, Curtis. 



P. intermedius, Boisd., var. donisthorpei, Dollman (Ent. Rec, 

 1910, p. 295). In sculpture, size and colouration of head, thorax, and 

 hind body, similar to the "type-form." In the colour of the elytra, 

 which are of a bright vivid red (with a faint metallic-green reflection), 

 the specimen depai-ts in a striking manner from the normal. The 

 contrast between the bronze-green thorax and the clear red elytra 

 makes this form a most beautiful and distinct one. 



Taken by Mr. Hereward Dollman, in company with many normal 

 specimens, by sifting the refuse heaps in a farm-yard at Ditchling, 

 Sussex, on August 30, 1910. 



P. concinnus, Grav., Micr. 21 ; P. ebeninus, var. minor, Er. (Gen. 

 Spec. Staph. 461). This is the insect standing for the most pai^t under 

 P. ebeninus, Grav., in our collections (Joy, Ent. Mo. Mag. xliv. (2 Ser. 

 xix.), 1908, 51). The true P. ebeninus is larger (7|-8 mm.), and has the 

 penultimate joints of the antennas distinctly less transverse, and the 

 hind body less closely and finely punctui-ed. In P. ebeninus, the fine 

 transverse impressed line at the base of the first three or four dorsal 

 segments of the antennse is sharply angled backwaixls in the centre ; 

 in P. concinnus it is quite straight, or, at most, slightly angled. 

 L. 5-7 mm. Sometimes the legs are brownish testaceous ; this is the 

 var. ochropus, Gr. 



There seems no particular reason why P. concinnus should not be 

 regarded as a variety of P. ebeninus, but the Continental authorities seem 

 to consider it a distinct species. P. ebeninus (the true form) appears to 

 be a rare insect as British. Mr. Champion possesses it from Godalming 

 and Sandown, Isle of Wight. P. corruscus, Grav., cannot, I think, be 

 regarded as a distinct species from the true P. ebeninus, as there appear 

 to be no structural diflerences between them. 



