The Anthici are lively little beetles, tliat are generally found 

 in warm and sheltered situations ; but in the South of France 

 I observed several pretty species much smaller than ours, run- 

 ning up the trunks of trees. The following are native species. 



1. Antherinus Linn. — Panz. 11. 14. 



June, on flowers at Hertford : rare at Earsham in Norfolk, 

 May, in great abundance under rejectamenta at Tollsbury, 

 Essex, J. C. : May, June, and July, on mud, Glanville's Woot- 

 ton and Puddimore, Somerset, and Thorne Moor, Yorkshire, 

 Mr. Dale : very abundant under rejectamenta, Isle of Wight, 

 Rev. G. T. Rudd. 



2. quadrinotatus Gyl. 2. 498, 8. 



" Captured within the metropolitan district in June." 



3. ater Payk.—Panz. 31. 15. 



April, Southend; and 13th May several under stones near 

 the Chesil-bank, Portland, J. C. ; and in June, Mr. Dale. 



4. fuscus Mars. — floralis Panz. 23. 5. 



Very abundant from April to November on dunghills, hot- 

 beds, and under rejectamenta ; Mr. Dale generally meets with 

 it flying. 



5. floralis Lirm. — formicarius Oliv. 



May, flowers in gardens ; beginning of August on Trifolium. 



6. equestris Panz. 74. 8. 



" June, near London and in Devon, as well as the next." 



7. gracilis Kug. — Panz. 38. 21. 



8. angustatus Curt. — humilis of Ahrens is a different species. 

 Elongated and narrow, the thorax obovate ; mouse-colour- 

 ed, with ochreous pubescence, thickly and rather strongly 

 punctured ; back of head and thorax bright rufous when alive, 

 disc of the latter afterwards fuscous ; antennae and legs ochre- 

 ous-chestnut, underside partaking of the same colour: length 

 1 line. 



I found two in September floating in a rill running down 

 the Cliff, at Blackgang Chine. 



9. constrictus Rudd's Mss. 



Shining piceous, firmly punctured ; thorax compressed be- 

 hind, with a transverse channel ; elytra finely pubescent, with 

 a castaneous line at the apex, sometimes with a bright ferru- 

 ginous spot divided by the suture; mouth, antennae and legs 

 fulvous; apex of former sometimes fuscous ; middle of thighs 

 and hinder tibiae piceous; 1^ line. 



June and August, under rejectamenta near Ryde, Rev. 

 G. T. Rudd. 



10. tibialis Curt. Brit. Ent. j^l- 714. 



Mr. R. H. Spence first gave me this very distinct species, 

 which he took under rejectamenta near Netley in October ; 

 and Mr. Rudd has taken it near Ryde in June. 



I am indebted to T. C. Heysham, Esq., for Oxj/ria renifonnis 

 {Rumex digynus), Mountain Sorrel, who sent it from Borrow- 

 dale. 



