96 SCYDM^NID.E. 



3Xr. sparshalli, Denny, and N. minutus, Chaud (= jmviiliOf 

 Schmcm) must be regarded as separate species. According to some con- 

 tinental authorities the colours are reversed (v. Brit. Col. iii. 75, 76), 

 and jV. sjmrshalli is said to have dark elytra, while iV. ininutus is 

 unicolorous testaceous. Denny (Mon. Psel. et Scyd. Brit. 1825, plate 

 13, fig. 3) gives an excellent figure of JV. sparshalli, which he represents 

 as quite vinicolorous, and of a ferruginous or rufo-testaceous colour, so 

 that our determination is evidently the correct one. 



SCYDM^IVUS, Latreille. 



S. barnevillei, Reitter (Best. Tabellen der Europ. Col. 10, 29). 

 Allied to S. poweri, Fowler, and like that species pitchy or pitchy-black 

 with the anterior femora of the male evidently thickened and not 

 regularly dilated as in S. j^i^siUus ; it is of about the same size as 

 tS. 'poiveri., if anything slightly smaller, and differs from that species in 

 having the thorax more transverse and the elytra narrowei'. The 

 antennfe are shorter and more thickened towards the apex, the penulti- 

 mate joints being distinctly more transverse ; the pubescence on the 

 elytra is rather more difluse, but much longer and more distinct. 

 From S. pusilhcs it difiers in the slightly broader elytra, shorter 

 antennae and much longer pubescence. L. li mm. 



Found in debris of cormorants' and gulls' nests sent from the Scilly 

 Islands by Dr. Joy, who introduced the species as British (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. xlv. (2 Ser. xx.) 1909, 54). 



&'. poweri is given as a synonym of S. saitellaris in the last 

 European catalogue. It is, however, entirely distinct from tliat 

 species in size, shape, antennre, sculpture, &c., and cannot possibly 

 be confounded with it. 



EUCONNUS, Thomson. 

 E. maklini, Mann. (Bull. Mosc. 1844, i. 193); Napochus 

 claviger, Thoms. (Skand. Col. iv. 882). Of about the size and shape 

 of U. hirticollis, 111., but easily distinguished by the very short and stout 

 antennae, which are scarcely as long as the head and thorax and tei'- 

 minate in a very broad and abrupt four- jointed club. The insect is of 

 an obtuse pitchy colour with the thorax and elytra sometimes lighter, 

 shining, very spai-ingly and finely pubescent, except at the base of 

 the head and thorax, which have luther spaiing but coarse bristly 

 pubescence ; head subrotundate, about as broad as the middle of the 

 thorax ; antennae and palpi testaceous ; thorax as long as broad, 

 scai'cely narrower at base than the elytra, slightly narrowed towards 

 apex, with the sides hairy, especially in front, base with a deep fuii-ow, 

 slightly interrupted in the middle, and bounded towards the posterior 

 angles (which are right angles) by an elevated fold ; elytra about three 

 times as long as the thorax, widened in the middle, sparingly and 

 finely pubescent, scarcely visibly punctured, base with a deep impression 



