SCYDMyENID^. 95- 



I. Anterior tibife strongly bent ; pos- 



terior femora simple . . , C. latum and C. rufescens. 



II. Anterior tibise straight. 



i. Posterior femora terminating in an 



angular tooth at apex . . .0. angulare and 0. viennense. 



ii. Posterior femoi-a simple at the apex, 



but armed near the centre with a 



tooth 



1. Tooth small . . . . C. serripes, 0. brunneum 



and C. denticulatum. 



2. Tooth long, curved, and sharply- 

 pointed. . . . . .0. dextipes and C. zebei. 



3. Tooth long and terminating in a 



tuft of hair . . . . . C. appendiculatum 



and C. CALCARATUM. 



If C. inincticolle be reinstated, it belongs to the first group with the 

 simple linear tarsi ; the differences will be found in the table in Vol. iii., 

 p. G6, and need not be repeated. 



SCYDM^NIDiE. 



NEURAPHES, Thomson. 



N. planifrons, Blatch (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxvi. (2 Ser. i.) 1890, 93). 

 Head and thorax rufo-testaceous, elytra more or less pitchy-testaceous ; 

 antennas reddish-yellow with the first joint pitchy at apex ; legs reddish- 

 yellow, tarsi lighter. Head large, vertex very broad, flat and smooth, 

 eyes prominent, antennas with joints eight to ten gradually increasing 

 in size, sti^ongly transverse, and forming with the terminal joint (which 

 is almost twice as long as the tenth) a distinct club. Thorax longer 

 than broad, convex, broadest before middle, with the basal angles 

 slightly acute, base with four faint fovefe, one near each side margin, 

 and one on each side of a slight central carina. Elytra rather broad, 

 oval, convex, with the shoulders raised, the base with four fovese, the 

 outer pair shallow, the inner pair deep, and filled with tufts of yellow 

 hairs ; femora strongly clavate. The whole of the body, on the upper 

 surface, is covered with long yellow bristles, which are more or less 

 decumbent on the head and thorax, and sub-erect on the elytra. The 

 punctuation is distinct and somewhat coarse on the elytra and is 

 entirely setigerous. L. 1 mm. 



Sherwood Forest, Notts., under bark of birch stumps, in company 

 with Scydmcenus godarti, Lati-., and S. exilis, Er. 



The nearest ally of the species is S. sparshalli, from which it may be 

 distinguished by the broad flat vertex of the head, the more prominent 

 eyes, longer joints of the antennae, and the more oval form of the 

 elytra, which are set with stronger and more erect bristles. 



