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(b) The breast beneath and the abdomen black, the latter reddish at 

 the apex. 

 (6) rtifipcs, Fabr. 



The short ovate form of this species will at once distinguish 

 it ; the scutellum is black. 



(It occurs all over North and Central Europe, and 

 Stephens apparently took it at Windsor. 

 Thomson records it as occurring all over 

 Scandinavia). 



The Other European species are marseuli, Bedel; emgei, 

 Reitt. ; elongata, Lac. ; lepida, Fald. ; tergestana, Reitt. ; 

 carpathica, Reitt. ; pygj/icsa, Kr. ; collans, Schal. Most of 

 them occur in the eastern or eastern-central parts of Europe, 

 or in South Europe, and can hardly be expected, therefore, to 

 occur in Great Britain. 



III. — Agathidium badium, Er., a New British Beetle from 



Gibside. 



By Richard S. Bagnall, F.E.S. 

 (Oct. 23, 1905). 



It is with pleasure I am able to record this species from 

 Gibside. Agathidium baditim, Er., was added to the British 

 fauna last year by Dr. George W. Chaster, who took a single 

 example — a $ — at Patterdale on Lake Ullswater, which was 

 identified by Mr. Donisthorpe (Ent. Record, xvi., p. 18, 1904). 



When Mr. Donisthorpe <\'as staying with me this autumn 

 (October, 1905), we took an Agathidium in Gibside from 

 beneath beech bark, and upon his return to London Mr. 

 Donisthorpe wrote me that it was the new British species 

 badium of Erichson. This tempted me to examine my Gibside 

 "beech-bark" captures, which, not having worked at the 

 genus, I thought were referable to the rather common south- 

 country species A. seinifiulu?n, L. ; and I soon found they 

 were all to be referred to the species which forms the subject 



