134 DRYOPID^^. 



DERMESTID^. 



GLOBICORNIS, Latieille. 



(G. (Hadrotoma) nigripes, F. (Ent. Syst. i. 233, t. 57). Oblong, 

 black; elytra depressed, not very shiny, thickly and deeply punctured, 

 slightly pubescent, with numerous raised setse on the margins ; head 

 much narrower than thorax, thickly pvinctured ; eyes prominent ; 

 antennas testaceous, with the club fuscous ; thorax transverse, much 

 narrowed in front, strongly sinuate and produced in the middle at base, 

 closely and deeply punctured ; legs fuscous, with the tarsi testaceous, 

 ] .3 mm. 



A specimen of this species was taken by Mr. Blatch by beating and 

 sweeping at the side of a wood near Tewkesbury, under circumstances 

 that might seem to prove it indigenous, but more confirmation is 

 required. The genus contains thirteen European species, and is j)laced 

 in the European Catalogue after Megatoma.) 



BYRRHIDiE. 



SIMPLOCARIA, Marsham. 



Simplocaria ? sp. In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for Septeniber, 1907, 205 , 

 Mr. Gorham records two specimens of a /Simj)locaria, standing in his 

 collection under S, semistriata, Fab., which appear to differ materially 

 from that species in being smaller, darker, and, more particularly, in 

 having all the striae deeper and continued to, or nearly to, the apex of 

 the elytra. He considers that they are probably the insect referred by 

 Stephens (111. Brit. Ent. Mand. iii. p. 140) to Byr7'hus 2)ici2)es of Olivier, 

 but that they are not the B. picipes of Gyllenhal, Avhich is larger than 

 B. semistriata, whereas Mr. Gorham's insects are smaller. I have seen 

 Mr. Gorham's examples, although I have not examined them very 

 closely, and it is possible they may belong to a new species, but it is 

 quite probable that they are merely small varieties, and they could 

 not be described without further material. There is a great deal too 

 much hair-splitting already in these small and more or less obscure 

 genera, often on single specimens. 



One of Mr. Gorham's specimens is from Wyre Forest, Shropshire ; 

 the locality of the other is unknown. 



DRYOPID^ (PARNID^). 



DRYOPS, Olivier (PARNUS, Fabricius). 

 The British species of this genus have by no means been satis- 

 factorily worked out as yet, and much confusion appears to exist 

 regarding them ; certain of them appear to i^est chiefly on difTerences 

 in <he male genitalia, which, apart from other distinctions, are always 



