STAPH YLINID.^. 81 



This species was introduced as British by Mr. E. A. Newbery 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlvi. (2 Ser. sxi.) 1910, 109); the chief distinguishiog 

 characters lie in the less strong pubescence and less close punctuation, 

 which render it a mucli less dull insect, the head and thorax being 

 conspicuously shiny. 



Sandown, I. of W. (Champion) ; Luccombe Chine and Chiddingfold,. 

 Surrey (Donisthorpe) ; Crowcombej Somerset (Nicholson) ; Kew 

 (DoUman). 



L. sharpi. Rye, appears to be synonymous with L. monticola, 

 Kies., and L. sicula, Er., is apparently only found in Sicily, our insect 

 being L. heeri, Fauv. 



OLOPHRUM, Erichson. 



O. assimile, Payk. (Faun. Suec. iii. 409). Reddish-yellow-brown,, 

 rather shining, with the hind body above and below darker ; head 

 rather strongly and thickly punctured, last joint of the antennse finely 

 pointed ; thorax about half as broad again as long, rounded at the 

 sides, with bluntly rounded basal angles, disc coarsely and thickly 

 punctured, side margins flattened and with a furrow in the middle; 

 elytra about half as long again as the thorax and somewhat more 

 coarsely, but not less thickly punctured. L. 3^-4 mm. 



Taken in some numbers by Professor Hudson Beare and Mr. 

 Donisthorpe in flood refuse on the banks of the river Spey, near Nethy 

 Bridge, during the second and third weeks of September 1908 (Ent. 

 Record, vol. xx. (1908) 255). The species appears to be widely 

 distributed in Northern and Central Europe. 



This species appears to be on the average of i-ather smaller size than 

 our other four species; from 0. consimile, Gyll., it may be known by 

 having the sides of the thorax completely I'ounded and not slightly 

 sinuate behind the middle, and from O.piceum, Gjdl., and 0. fiisctim, 

 Grav., by having the posterior angles of the thorax bluntly angled and 

 only rounded at their extreme apex. 



O. nicholsoni, Donisthorpe (Ent. Record, 1910, p. 139). 

 Shining reddish testaceous, occasionally darker with elytra red. 

 Depressed and somewhat parallel-sided. Head triangular, red with 

 two black spots or blotches in front of ocelli, finely and distinctly but 

 variably punctured ; antennae testaceous, slightly thickened at apex, first 

 joint elongate, third longer than second, 4-10 not tran verse, 11 about 

 twice as long as 10, joints 7-9 being the shortest. Palpi long, darker 

 than antennifi, the second joint being the longest, last joint pointed, 

 about twice as long as third. Thorax transverse, 1^ times as broad as 

 long, slightly more narrowed in front than behind, posterior angles 

 rounded, finely and distinctly punctured, with a bare oblong spot on 

 disc. Elytra parallel-sided, 2| times as long as thorax, finely and 

 distinctly but difiusely punctured, the punctures arranged more or 

 less in rows. Punctures on scutellum variable. Hind body alu- 

 taceous, with a few very fine scattered punctures. Legs testaceous, 



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