LATHRIDIID^. 117 



by Mr. Bi-itten and recorded by Mr. E. A. Newbery (Ent. Mo. Mag. 

 xliii. (2 Ser. xviii.) lt)07, 103); Cannock Chase (Tomlin) ; Aviemore, 

 Scotland (Champion) ; Egglestone-in-Teesdale (Gardner) ; Langworthby 

 (Day). Closely allied to E. rugosus, Herbst., but larger and broader 

 and differently colom-ed, and further distinguished by the absence of 

 impressed lines on the first ventral segment of the abdomen ; the 

 differences in the central channel and the lateral and basal impressions 

 of the thorax are not reliable as they vary in different specimens of 

 E. rugosus. Ganglbauer records the species as very rare, but as 

 widely spread over North Europe, Germany, Austria and Hungary ; 

 it is very distinct and an interesting addition to our list. 



E. histrio, Joy and Tomlin (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlvi. (2 Ser. xxi.) 

 1910, 250). Closely allied to E. transvei^sus, and probably to be found 

 with that species in many collections. It is, however, abundantly 

 distinct, being smaller and less elongate ; the club of the autennie is 

 plainly shorter ; the thorax is more rugose and duller, and the borders 

 are evidently narrower ; the elytra are shorter and broader in pro- 

 portion, with the stria3 much more strongly punctured ; the punctures 

 are more closely placed, and the interstices are convex; on the first 

 ventral segment there are about six very fine, short, impressed lines 

 starting from near the jjosterior coxje, whereas in E. transversus there 

 is a single, well-marked, long impressed line on this segment. The 

 sedeagus in the male is simple, veiy slightly curved, about four times 

 as long as broad, with the apex not sharply pointed ; in E. transversus 

 it is very remarkable, being long and thin, sharply pointed at the 

 apex, and strongly bent twice at a right angle, somewhat like the 

 letter Z. L. If-l^ mm. 



The species is generally distributed and is visually found in hay. 

 It is probably very widely distributed : Oxford; Bradfield ; Southport 

 (189S); Herefordshire (Whitbourne-on-Teme, Symond's Yat, Malton 

 and West Malvern). I have two specimens from the late W. Gurney's 

 collection, taken by him in hay rubbish in 1859 at Bedingfield, Suffolk, 

 and there are others in Dr. Sharp's collection. 



CORTICARIA, Marsham. 

 Corticaria, Mai-sh (Ent. Brit. i. 106; Mann. Germ, Zeitschr. 

 V. 16; Lacordaire, Gen. Col. ii. 437; Thorns. Skand. Col. v. 224; 

 Ganglbauer, Die Kafer von Mitteleuropa, iii. 793). In the Ento- 

 mologist's Monthly Magazine (vol. xliv. 2 Ser. xix. (1908) 125), Dr. 

 Joy has published a valuable paper entitled "Notes on the genus 

 Corticaria" in which he describes three species not hitherto recoi'ded 

 as British, and a fourth which had only recently been introduced ; two 

 of these, C. linearis, Payk., and C. longicoUis, Zett., I had already, as 

 he says, particularly mentioned as likely to occur in Britain (Col. 

 Brit. Islands, iii. 292), and I think it very probable that many other 

 of the Continental species which belong to these minute and obscure 

 genera, will before long find a place in our lists, seeing that so much 



