86 SILPHID^]. 



G. punctulum has occurred at Highgate ; Guildford, Woking and 

 Ashstead, Surrey; Cobham, Kent; Soham, Cambs, 



In any case C. minutus and C. punctulum are extremely closely 

 allied ; they both have the upper side smooth and shining and may by 

 this character be distinguished from C. armadillo and C. puhescens, in 

 which the upper side is alutaceous. 



AGATHIDIUM, Illiger. 



A. badium, Er. (Naturg. der. Ins. Deutsch. iii. 98) ; A» 

 orbiculatum, var. b. Gyll. (Ins. Suec. ii. 574). Very closely allied 

 to A. seminulum, L., but on the whole of a lighter brownish-red colour, 

 the head and thorax smooth and shining, with a scarcely perceptible 

 reticulation, even under a high magnifying power ; elytra with much 

 weaker sutural stiia?, which are very shallow or obsolete towards the 

 middle, and often only noticeable more or less towards the apex ; 

 metasternum with less strong and much shortened lateral lines ; hind 

 femora of the male with a very sharp-edged apical angle, forming a 

 broad three-cornered tooth ; the third joint of the antennae is about 

 half as long again as the second, and as long as the three following 

 joints taken together. L. 2-2^ mm. 



Pattendale, Lake Ullswatei' ; taken vinder bark by Dr. Chaster in 

 September IDUS, and recorded by him as British (Ent. Record, xvi. 

 1904, 18); Gibside, Durham, not uncommon (Bagnall and Donisthorpe) ; 

 Cumberland (Britten). 



ANISOTOMA, Illiger. 



A. humeralis, F. (Ent. Syst. i. 1792, 79), var. globosa, Payk. 

 (In. Suec. i. 70, iii. 437 ; Ent. Mo. Mag. x. 1874, 84). This variety has 

 the shoulders of the elytra ferruginous or yellowish-brown, darker, or 

 more or less blackish at the suture and apex, with the dark coloui- of 

 the thorax often resolved into two spots. 



In the var. davipes, Herbst., the body is entirely reddish with the 

 shoulders rather lighter. Rye believed this insect to be merely an 

 immature example of the species, bv;t this applies equally Vv^ell to the 

 var. globosa, Payk. 



LIODES, Latreille. 



L. anglica, Rye (Ent. Mo. Mag. x., 1874, 135) has been for a long 

 time i^egarded as a variety of L. cinnamomea, Panz., and as such is 

 included vmder the last-named species in the Eviropean catalogue of 

 190G. Dr. Joy (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlv. (2 Ser. xx.) 1909, 219) contests 

 this, and says that the general shape is quite different, A. anglica being 

 shorter and having less parallel-sided elytra, and being more like 

 L. lucens than L. cinnamomea : the thorax, moreover, in L. anglica is 

 more strongly contracted in front and is broader at the centre (and not 

 behind as in the last-named insect) and the posterior angles are sharper. 

 In L. cinnamomea the club of the antennae is always quite black, while 

 in L. anglica it is at most very slightly darker than the basal portion. 



