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feeble ; in ;S'. ivivntnchrs the femora are broader and distinctly and 

 somewhat densely punctulate." 



The dorsal strife vary in most of the 6'aprlni and do not afibrd a 

 reliable character. 



Four further genera have been introduced into the Histeridte by 

 Mr. Lewis, Packylojms, Er., including Scqjrinus maritimirs, Steph., 

 Kissister, Marseul, including Carcinops minima, Aube, Ilalacritus, 

 Schmidt, to which Acritus punciimn, Aub6, is to be referred, and 

 Jlypocaccus, Thorns., containing Saprimis rugifrons and metcdlicus. 

 The only one of these genera which is recognised as a genus in the 

 European catalogue of Heyden, Reitter and Weise is Pachylo^nis. 

 Ganglbauer does not mention Pacliylopiis, and treats the other three as 

 not genera ; under these circumstances it is perhaps the best course 

 in our limited fauna to keep to the old arrangement, at any rate for the 

 present ; the differences do not appear to be very important. 



MICROMALUS, Lewis. 

 In the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7 Ser. vol. xix. 

 ol8 (11)07), Mr. Lewis forms a neAv genus, Micromcdus, to receive 

 certain species hitherto included in Paromalus ; among these are both 

 the species in our Msta, P. flavicornis, Herbst., tiiid parallelopipedus, 

 Herbst. The generic name Micromcdus must therefore be substituted 

 for these species. The new genus differs from Paromcdus (the type of 

 which is complanatus, Panz.) in being somewhat cylindrical and 

 elongate, but not much depressed as in P. complanatus, and the form 

 of the presternum is on a different plan, being without strije and 

 having the keel narrowed antei-iorly and not much flattened out ; the 

 metasternum, moreover, throughout its length is relatively more 

 narrow. 



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CARPOPHILUS, Leach. 

 C. sexpustulatus, F., has been usually regarded as an introduced 

 insect, and as very doubtfully British. Mr. E. G. Bayford, however 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. slii. (2 Ser. xvii.) 1906, 17'J) recoi^ds two species taken 

 under circumstances that would seem to give it a claim to be regarded as 

 indigenous ; one of these was taken by himself, probably under bark, at 

 Edlington or Wadworth Wood, Doncaster, and the other by Dr. 

 Oorbett, at Sandall Beat, some four miles from these woods, under the 

 bark of an elm. In February 1007 Dr. Corbett and Mr. Bayford cap- 

 tured six more specimens in carcases of hooded crows in "Wheatley ^Yood, 

 near Sandall Beat (Ent. Mo. Mag. xviii. 1907, p. 82). 



EPUR.flGA, Erichson. 

 Dr. Joy (Ent. Mo. Mag. xliv. (2 Ser. xix.) 1908, 106) gives a very 

 good table of the British species of this genus (excluding E. decemguitata 



