spot at the extreme apex, trie dark portion being connected at the side margin 

 with the transverse band. This species seems to be very local, although when 

 it does occur it seems to be fairly common. It has recently occured in some 

 numbers at Box Hill, in Surrey. 



CHLjENIUS. 



The four species of this genus are easily separable. C. holosericeus is black, 

 has the interstices of the elytra granulose and thickly covered with yellowish 

 hairs ; vestitus has the elytra green with a yellow margin ; nigricornis and 

 SchranJci have the elytra bright green without a yellow margin. Nigricornis 

 has the first joint of the antennae red, and the hinder angles of the thorax 

 blunt while SchranJci has the hinder angles of the thorax right angles, and the 

 first three joints of antennse red. SchranJci and holosericeus are extremely 

 scarce; vestitus and nigricornis seem generally distributed, occurring in 

 swampy places ; the latter species being often found in numbers in hollow 

 stems of reeds. In length all the species measure about 4 to 5 lines. 



OODES. 



0. helqpioides, the single British representative of this genus, has a super- 

 ficial resemblance to an Amara, from which, however, it may be easily dis- 

 tinguished by its dull black colour, its impunctate thorax, which is without 

 basal depressions, and its parallel sided elytra. This species seems generally 

 distributed ; Mr. Dawson's localities are principally in the south, and Mr. 

 Smedley took the species near York. 



LICINUS. 



We have two species of this genus in Britain, L. depressus and L. silphoi- 

 des, which are easily separable. Both are black in colour, and much flatten- 

 ed, but the interstices of the elytra are wrinkled, and the third, fifth and 

 seventh raised so as to form slight ribs in silpJwides while in depressus the 

 interstices are flat and thickly punctured. Both species measure about five 

 to six lines in length, and are found in chalky localities, as at Box Hill. 



BADISTEE. 



We have four species divisible as follows : 

 1. — Thorax black, with yellowish margins - - B. sodalis and B. peltatus % 

 £. — Thorax red - - B. unipustulatus and B. bipustulatus. 



Sodalis is distinguished from peltatus by being rather smaller (2 lines), 

 and by having a large yellow spot at the shoulder, whereas peltatus measures 

 about 2 \ lines and has no shoulder spot. Both species have the margins of 

 the elytra yellow. 



