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pair being of equal breadth throughout ; the thorax is rather broader in proportion 

 than in the pi-eceding genus, and the colour, as a rule, is said to be darker, but this 

 is by no means a reliable character, as it is variable ; in JB. puncticoUis the male has 

 the two basal joints of the antennae thickened, the first armed with a small denti- 

 form appendage on its internal apex, and the femora ample. Length, IJ mm. 



Found under the same circumstances as B. puncticoUis, and 

 apparently widely distributed and mixed with that species in col- 

 lections ; in Dr. Sharp's collection there are specimens from Biahop's 

 Wood and Hampstead, as well as from several Scotch localities, and I 

 have specimens from Bretby Wood, near Repton, Burton-on-Trent ; it' 

 is evidently the insect referred to by Denny (Mon. Psel. et Scyd., p. 

 26) as the female of ^''Areopagus puncticoUis,'^ of which he says, 

 "thighs very thick in female," although what could have led him to 

 the determination of the sex it is dilficult to say. 



MiCEAMBE ABIETIS, Payk. 



There appears to be some doubt regarding this species, which has before been 

 introduced into the British list on the authority of large specimens of Cryptophagus 

 vini ; a specimen named for me on the continent as M. ahietis appears to me to 

 differ in no point from the species just mentioned, but I believe that Mr. Blatch and 

 Dr. Capron have both taken the insect in the London district : it is larger, with 

 shorter and less thick pubescence, and the anterior angles of the thorax not pro- 

 duced into a tooth behind ; the elytra also are more finely and closely punctured. 



Length, 1^ mm. 



The species occurs on pine trees ; the habitat, therefore, appears 

 to be different from that of G. vini (which species must also be 

 referred to Thomson's genus Micramhe). I feel, however, almost 

 certain that I have found C. vini on low-growing firs. 



Atomaeia ehenana, Kr. 

 Closely allied to A. hasalis, but broader and more convex, with the thorax 

 rufous and the testaceous colour of the elytra reaching further towards the base ; 

 the antennae are rather shorter and stouter ; the thorax has the sides moi-e slightly 

 rounded, and almost angularly dilated about the middle, and the elytra are con- 

 siderably broader and more widened before the middle. Length, 1| mm. 



This species has occurred at Great Yarmouth, Shoreham, Brighton, 

 and Bognor ; it appears certainly to be a good species, although it has 

 been altogether omitted from the British list as being a variety of 

 A. gutta (from which it is quite distinct), and is given as a variety of 

 A. basaUs in the European catalogue of Heyden, Reitter, and Weise. 



Melanophthalma (Coeticaeia) similata, Gyll. 



Very like M. fuscula, but easily distinguished by the shape of the thorax, 

 which is nearly as long as broad, and usually has three forees at the base, of which 



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