and cows, where most likely they live upon the insects that 
breed in multitudes in such substances. Our British species are 
1. nebulosus Pk. — murinus Pz . 66. 16. — hybridus Mars . — 
Don. 1 6. pi. 563. August and September, Norfolk, Suffolk, 
mountains above Pontneddfechan, and in putrid Boleti, Mr. 
Dillwyn. 
2. murinus Linn.? — Oliv. 3. No. 42. t. 6. f. 51 ? Although 
Linne does not mention the colour of the legs, I think it 
very probable that he intended to describe the former spe- 
cies. May and June, in putrid birds and under stones, 
Norfolk ; October, sand hills, Ramsgate, near Bristol and 
Swansea. 
3. pubescens DeGeer. — Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 758. — fulviceps 
Kirby var. 
Blackish, pitted, tessellated with brown formed by ochreous pubescence ; 
very thickly punctured ; a few shining large punctures on the head, and 
2 or 3 on each side of the thorax ; mouth and 5 basal joints of antennae 
ochreous, mandibles, palpi, a stripe on the 2 basal joints and base of the 
3rd black ; scutel velvety black on the sides ; inflected margin of elytra 
ferruginous at the base ; abdomen with a dorsal line of shining yellow- 
ish triangular spots, with an oblique black one on each side ; thighs 
with an ochreous ring at the apex ; postpectus and underside of abdo- 
men densely clothed with silvery pubescence, dotted with black. 
June, near Edinburgh, Ambleside, Swansea, and London. 
4. erythropterus Linn. — Don. 9. pi. 308. — caesareus Erich. 
The Linnaean species has the abdomen spotted with shining 
golden hairs, which distinguishes it from the following, which, 
as far as I have'seen, has an unspotted body and a yellow scutel. 
June, common in dung, under stones and upon plants in 
meadows. 
5. castanopterus Grav. — erythropterus Oliv . 3. 42. t. 2 .f. 14. 
— Panz. 27. 4. 
Fabricius considered this as a variety only of Linnaeus’s 
5. erythropterus. Taken near Edinburgh, London, Swansea, 
and in Norfolk and Devon. 
6. stercorarius Oliv. 3. t. 3,f. 23. — brunnicornis Kirby. Nor- 
folk, Suffolk, and near London in the spring; August, 
under stones near the sea, Swansea, Isle of Wight and 
Arran ; North Denes, Yarmouth, Mr. Paget. 
7. aericeps Kirby. Near Barham, Suffolk, and London. 
8. chalcocephalus Fab. — ochropterus Grav. 
Said to be in the British Museum. 
9. aeneocephalus DeGeer. — sericeus Mars. — leucophthalmus 
Mars, var. — cupreus Oliv. 3. t. 2 .f. 16. var. Included by 
Erichson in the genus Ocys. May, heaths and grassy downs, 
Norfolk; Gorleston Cliffs, abundant, Mr. Paget; Hamp- 
stead Heath ; October, Southchurch, Essex ; Swansea and 
Scotland, under stones. 
Ligusticum scoticum , Scottish Lovage, from a root brought 
from Scotland by Mr. Woods, was communicated by Mr. 
Jan son. 
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