196 ! January, 
DESCRIPTION OF a NEW SPECIES of P80CIDM (C^CILIUS ATRICOBNIS) 
INHABITING BRITAIN. 
BY E. M'lACHLAN, F.L.S. 
CiECILIUS ATBICOENIS, n. sp. 
Eufo-flavus, nigro-varius. Antennse sat robustse, alis dimidio lon- 
giores, atrae, ( ^J ) pilis concoloribus brevibus vestitse ; articulo tertio ad 
apicem testaceo. Caput rufo-flavum, supra nigro-cinctum, nitidum ; 
fronte palpisque flavis baud signatis ; oculis rufo-fuscis. Mesotborax 
antice niger, postice rufo-flavus. Metathorax rufo-flavus, nebula antica 
lineaque transversali postica nigris. Abdomen rufo-flavum, supra 
linea utrinque basali, stria mediana longitudinali, punctoque anali, 
nigris. Pedes rufo-flavi, genubus picescentibus, tarsorum articulo ulti- 
mo nigricanti. Alse hyalinse, vix fuliginoso-flavescentes, impunctatae ; 
venis venulisque flavis, setis nigricantibus brevibus iustructis : anticarum 
spatio pterostigmaticali elongate, apicem versus dilatato ; cellula ellip- 
tica parva. Long. corp. 1|"' ; exp. alar 2^'". 
Hab. in insula Vectis, mense Novembris jam novo, rima instanti. 
Several examples of tbis little species were taken by Mr. Dale and 
his son at Fresbwater, in tbe Isle of "Wight, on the 5th of November, 
when the frost was on the ground. It appears to be perfectly distinct 
from any previously described species, and comes nearest to obsoletus of 
Stephens, but is at once to be separated therefrom by its more robust 
form, by the black markings on the head, thorax and abdomen, and by 
the much stronger and intensely black antennse, which in the ^ (the 
only sex I have seen), are more strongly pilose; from Jlavidiis of 
Stephens it is abundantly distinct, vide Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. iii, p. 271. 
It is not a little surprising that so small and delicate an insect should 
resist a temperature below freezing point. 
Lewisbam : 1st December, 1868. 
Notes on four additions to the list of British Coleoptera. — The following species 
are entitled to places in our Catalogue : — 
1. Amarafusca, Dej. 
I possess an example of this species, given me by Arthm* Adams, Esq., who 
captured it at Swansea. It is allied to A. ingenua, and was presented to me under 
that name. All the British specimens of A. ingenua that I have seen are really 
.4. /wsca, and come from the same source as my own. Dawson, however, records 
A. ingenua as occurring in Scotland ; but I have never seen a Scotch specimen ; 
and, if the species be really indigenous, it must be of the greatest rarity. A very 
good description oi A. fuse a will be found in the Ins. Deutschlands, vol. i, p. 537. 
