98 SCYDM^l!nD.^. 



with a transverse depression extending 



across the middle, and a fovea in the centre ; 



femora very stout ; anterior tibise armed with 



an extremely minute tooth on the inner edge 



towards the apex, and obliquely truncate 



thence to the tip ; intermediate tibiie strongly 



bowed to near the base . . . . E. brunneus. Grimmer 



{ktinzei, Aube) 

 {et-ichsoni, Thoms.) 



E. bescidicus, Reitt. (Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. 1881, 524 ; 

 Katurg. Ins. Deutschl. iii. -, 121). Closely alli-ed to E. chqwnti, Aub6 

 (with which it is compared by Gangibavier), but smaller, with the 

 antennae longer, the last joint especially being moi^e elongate ; the 

 head is smooth between the frontal furrows ; the central furrow of the 

 thorax is shorter, and the dorsal stripe of the elytra are shorter and do 

 not reach the middle ; the two depressed areas on the abdomen are 

 wider, occupying about one-third of the breadth of the segments ; in 

 the male the ventral segments are flattened and the penultimate 

 segment has a small fovea to the middle ; in the male of E. chqwnti the 

 last ventral segment is transversely impressed. L. 1^- mm. 



This species has been introduced as British by Dr. Joy (Ent. 

 Kecord, xx. (l'J08), 56) on the authority of six specimens recently 

 taken by Mr. Pool at Enfield and two in the Bates collection taken 

 many years ago by Mr. Lawson at Scarborough. Mr. Pool's examples 

 were taken under fir and elm bark. New Forest (Donisthorpe). 



E. bescidicus belongs to the section of the genus which is distin- 

 guished by having the raised border on each side of the depressed area, 

 in the middle of the base of the two first visible dorsal segments, 

 reaching at least to the middle. 



E. tomlini, Joy (Ent. Mo. Mag. xhi. (2 Ser. xvii.) I'lOG, i»l)). 

 Rufo-testaceovis, with elytra, antenna? and legs lighter, finely pubescent ; 

 head large, very transverse, strongly and thickly punctured, hind 

 angles prominent, frontal furrows not deep ; antennse rather long ; 

 thorax about as long as broad, distinctly narrower than the head with- 

 out eyes, much contracted behind, strongly and thickly punctured, 

 dorsal furrow deep, not quite reaching basal and apical margins, lateral 

 foveas distinct; elytra ample, longer than together broad, finely but 

 distinctly punctured, with the scutellary stria completed, and one 

 strong stria on each reaching about half way to apex ; hind body 

 narrower than elytra, very finely punctured throughout, with the 

 basal depressions on the first segments narrow and feeble. 



Male with the fifth ventral segment of the abdomen deeply and 

 sharply emarginate in the middle, with a conspicuous round fovea on 

 each side of the emargination, and having the base of the emargination 

 projecting backwards in the form of a rounded lobe which is sur- 

 mounted by two small membranous hairs ; sixth segment short. 



