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My specimen of this species occurred in the New-Forest ; Mr. 

 Westwood possesses one taken near London. 



Sp. 3. confinis. Plate 15. f. 2. Niger, nitidus, subpubescens, elytris gla~ 



bris, elytrorum apicibus antennis pedibusque castaneis. (Long. corp. \ lin.) 

 Ep. confinis mihi. — Steph. CataL p. 68. No. 725. 



Glossy black, slightly pubescent : head impunctate, with the mouth testaceous : 

 thorax with the anterior margin narrowly edged with castaneous: elytra 

 glabrous, impunctate, deep pitchy-black, with the apex more or less cas- 

 taneous ; antennae and legs castaneous. 



Differs from the foregoing in the pubescence of the head and thorax, and con- 

 colorous antennae; from Ep. gyrinoides by the colour of the antennae and 

 legs, and by the large castaneous patch at the apex of the elytra. 



The Ep. Histeroides, Westwood MSS., appears to be a dark variety of this 

 species. 



I have one of this species from the neighbourhood of Bristol. 

 *' Putney." — Mr. Westwood. 



Genus CX. — Leiodes, Latreille. 



Palpi scarcely filiform; maxillary with the terminal joint subcylindric, acu- 

 minate, the preceding minute; labial rather shorter, with the apical joint 

 subovate : mandibles somewhat exserted, acute. Antennae with the three basal 

 joints subcylindric, the third rather longest, the three following short, sub- 

 globose, the remainder forming a five-jointed club, the second joint of which, 

 or the eighth of the antennae, is very minute, and the terminal, or eleventh, 

 large and subovate : head small : thorax transverse, the sides rounded : body 

 ovate or subhemisphaeric, above convex, glabrous: elytra margined, entire: 

 legs moderate ; femora sometimes dentate ; tibia? compressed, externally spi- 

 nose; posterior sometimes bent; tarsi, four anterior five-jointed, slightly 

 dilated in the males, two posterior four-jointed. 



Latreille, and the followers of the tarsal system, place this genus 

 very remote from Phalacrus ; but I conceive that the present location 

 is more natural, as the habits of the insects are not dissimilar to 

 those of the other Rypophaga, but totally unlike those of the genera 

 with which they must necessarily be associated, if the number of 

 tarsal joints alone is to guide us in our arrangements. The genus 

 is rather an extensive one, and the species are far from abundant 

 in Britain ; they differ considerably among themselves, and it might 

 facilitate the investigation of the species, were the genus subdivided 

 more than I have attempted; but the only characters that seem 

 available appear to be sexual : from the other genera of this family 



