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Abdomen very short, ovate, finely punctured ; basal segment with 

 a small red spot in the middle of the sutural margin^ second 

 segment wholly bright red, excepting the narrowly black lateral 

 and posterior margins (beneath it has also a tendency to become 

 reddish), basal foveae evident, transversely oblong ; apical segment 

 with a small greenish-yellow median spot. Legs reddish ; coxas, 

 trochanters, and tibiie (excepting the extreme tips of these latter) 

 shining black ; femora externally with a black line ; tarsi blackish 

 externally, excepting the first joint of the intermediate and pos- 

 terior, Avhich is almost wholly reddish. Wings snbhyaline, tinged 

 with smoky brown, paler at the tips ; nervures black ; stigma 

 blackish, somewhat piceous on its lower edge ; areolet distinctly 

 pentagonal. Length 6 miUims. ; expanse 15 millims. 



Two females (one mounted as a microscopic slide) from lat. 

 82° 29' (August Sth) and 82° 33' (June 21st) {Feilden) ■ one indi- 

 cated as found on the surface of the snow at an elevation of 

 800 feet. 



Avery striking species, pertaining to Gravenhorst's Section xi. 

 Cetptus aecticus ?, ScJiibdte. 



One ? from Eawdings Bay, 2lst August (Feilden), appears to 

 agree more nearly with this than with any other described species. 

 Already recorded by Schiodte from Greenland. • 



PEOCTOTETPIDiE. 



MiCEOGASTEE, Sp. 



A mass of yellow cocoons formed by larvse parasitic upon that 

 DasycJiira groenlandica, from Dobbin Bay, August 1-lth, 1875 



(^Feilden); but the insects had escaped. Possibly it may have 



been the species noticed by Packard (American Naturalist, xi. 



p. 52) as found by Dr. Bessels at Polaris Bay, and described as 



M. Rallii, 



COLEOPTEEA. 

 Beachelttea. 

 QuEDius FTJLGinrs, Frichson. 



One example from Discovery Bay {Hart). Avery widely dis- 

 tributed species, already recorded from^ Greenland and the North- 

 American continent, occurring all over Europe, and has been 

 found in the Atlantic islands*. 



* There is also an example of Cryptophagus acuiangulus, Gyllenhal, from 

 Floeberg Beach (Feilden) ; but it was found among rubbish discharged from 

 the 'Alert,' and has no claim to bo considered an Arctic insect. I am indebted 

 to Mr. E. C. Eye for the determination of this species. 



