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clothed with thick yellow pubescence ; elyti^a oblong-ovate, very closely 

 punctured, with a distinct sutural stria on each ; femora pitchy black. 



Length 3 J mm. 



Nethy Bridge, Scotland, under a dead squirrel; taken on June 27, 1911, 

 by Mr. Donisthorpe, who introduced the species as British (Ent. Record 

 xxiv., 1012, p. 71). 



Murray, in his monograph of the genus Catops considers C. 

 'iiwntivagus to be a variety of C. tristis, but he also includes C. longidus 

 and C grandicollis as varieties of the same species, although they are 

 now regarded as good and distinct species. Mr. Donisthorpe, in intro- 

 ducing the insect, thinks that it may be as well to consider it as a 

 variety for the present. At any rate it cannot be regarded as synon3'mous 

 with the type form of C. tristis. 



Liodes stenocoryphe, Joy. Ent. ]\[o. Mag. xlvii. (2 Ser, xxii.), 

 1911, 173. The following is Dr. Joy's description of this species: — 



Oblong ovate, ferruginous with head and thorax darker; head large, 

 iilmost as large as in L. triepkei., rather closely and distinctly punctured, 

 with four larger punctures on forehead; antennae long, ferruginous with 

 the club dark, the latter broad, as broad as in L. calcarata, but with 

 last joint much narrower ; throax a little narrower than elytra, broader 

 at the middle, with the sides strongly contracted before and behind, 

 base with an exti-emely shallow sinuation at sides in male, truncate in 

 female, posterior angles obtuse, strongly and rather closely punctured ; 

 elytra twice as long as thorax, not much rounded at sides, strise very 

 strongly and closely punctured, more strongly than in L. calcarata, 

 interstices finely but distinctly punctured, alternate ones with a few 

 larger punctures ; legs elongate, tibiae narrow, tarsi long and slender. 



Male. Under plate of posterior femora with a very small blunt lobe 

 at the apex, corresponding with the lobe on the upper plate ; tibias with 

 a double curve, and inwards near the apex as in L. curta ; fedeagus 

 broad, parallel-sided, except for a slight constriction in the middle, apex 

 evenly rounded, quite obtuse, side margins somewhat thickened. 



Length 2| mm. 



From L. calcarata and L. triepkei the species is distinguished by the 

 practically truncate base of the thorax, smaller last joint of antennae, 

 and the more strongly punctured striaj of the elytra ; the head is larger 

 than in L. calcarata and the sides of the thorax more rounded. The 

 aadeagus is broader and more parallel-sided, and more rounded at the 

 apex than in any of the allied species. 



A pair of this insect was taken by Mr. W. E. )Sharp in 1910 at Forres, 

 Invernesshire. 



HISTERID^. 



Acritus minutus, Herbst. Kiif. iv. (1792) 41, t. 4G, fig. 4. Mr. 

 James Edwards (Ent. Mo. Mag. xlviii. (2nd Ser. xxiii.) 1912, 186) 

 points out tliat there is no evidence that this species has ever occurred 



