SCARITID.E. CLIVINA. 39 



Genus XIII. — Clivina, Latreille. 



Labrum a little advanced, quadrate, transverse : mandibles short, acute, denti- 

 culated from their base to the apex : labium transverse, gibbous : labial palpi 

 vpith the terminal joint nearly cylindric: antenncB moniUform, with the basal 

 joint stout, the following very long : body elongate, subdepressed : thorax qua- 

 drate : wings two or none : anterior tibice palmated externally and at the tip. 



The Clivinse are usually found beneath stones, on the borders of 

 rivers and lakes, or in banks in damp places ; tliey are distinguished 

 from the Dyschirii by the form of the thorax, and from the other 

 genera of this family by their small size. 



Sp. 1. Fossor. Nigro-piceo velbrunnea, ore, antennis, pedihusque 

 rvjis, elytris concolorihus prqfimde punctato-str'iatts. — (Long. 

 Corp. 3 — 3i- lin.) 



Te. Fossor. Linne. — CI, Fossor. Steph. Catal. JVo. 4.5. 



Head nigi-o-piceous, subpunctated ; the mouth and palpi pale testaceous : eyes 

 globose, with an elongate arched impression between them : thorax truncate 

 anteriorly, a little convex, shining pitchy-black, obsoletely strigated, and 

 rather deeply channelled in the middle : elytra rather convex, punctato-striate, 

 shining pitchy-black, with four distant impressed dots on the third striaB from 

 the suture : body beneath pitchy-black, glossy, smooth, convex : legs short, 

 stout, and, with the antenna?, totally rusty-red. — This species varies according 

 to its maturity in being entirely pale testaceous, brown, or chesnut, with the 

 legs and antennae paler. 



Far from an uncommon insect in the south of England. 



Ar. anglicanus. Hopes MSS. — Ox} anglicanus. Steph. Catal. No. 44. 



Deep glossy black, with the antennae, palpi, and tarsi ? * ferruginous : the head 

 depressed with an impressed dot on the forehead, and an irregular impression 

 on each side above the eyes : thorax rather elongated, shghtly emarginated in 

 front, with a straight longitudinal line, and a subflexuous one on each side, 

 centrical between it and the margin : elytra linear, subconvex, deeply striated, 

 the striae rather deeply punctated ; legs black : the anterior tibife tridentate 

 externally, and bidentate internally. 



The only specimen of this curious insect which I have seen, and which is 

 evidently of a form otherwise pecvdiar to South America, was picked up in 

 a dead and mutilated state in the fields eastward of Peckham, about five 

 years since : and from the circumstance of that spot being annually occupied 

 by booths, &c., for the sale of merchandize, the exhibition of animals, and 

 so forth, I presume that it may have been accidentally dropped therefrom, 

 and has thus found its way into our Fauna. From the singidarity of its form 

 I have introduced a figure, through the kindness of the Rev. F. W. Hope, to 

 whom the specimen belongs. 



* One of the anterior tarsi alone remains. 



