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Hastings District (Bloomfield) Slindon, no males (Guermon- 

 prezf; Fair Mile, Dane Wood, Eartham, Charlton Forest, 

 Bognor, Cocking, and Itchenor (Guermonprez) . Surrey : 

 common in several parts of Mickleham and on Box Hill, all 

 on the right bank of the River Mole (Ashdoicn) ; Woking 

 (Saunderx) ; Reigate, 26 Sept. (Chapman). Middlesex : Ruislip 

 (McLachlan) . Kent: Broadwater Forest near Tunbridge 

 Wells, early Sept. (Milton) ; Blean Wood, Faversham 

 (Chitty) ; Wrotharn Down, 17 June (Button) ; Darenth Wood 

 and Birch Wood (Stephens). 



(An example from Birkenhead Docks (Cheshire) was clearly 

 a casual introduction.) 



3. Ectobius panzer i Stepli. 

 (Plate VII, fig. 2, and PI. VIII, figs. 3 and 4.) 



Panzeri STEPH. 111. Brit. Ent. Mand. vi, p. 47 . 1835 Ectobius. 

 ericetorum WESMAEL 1838, Bull. Acad. Brnx. v, 



p. 587, tab. i, f . 2 . 1838 Blatta. 



,, BRUNNER Nouv. Syst. Blatt, p. 58 . 1865 Ectobia. 



BRUNNER Prod, der Eur. Orth. p. 34 . 1882 Ectobia. 

 Panzeri ELAND SHAW Syn. Brit. Orth. in Ent. 



Mo. Mag. p. 368 . . 1889 Ectobia. 



ericetorum FINOT Faune de la France, Orthopt. 



p. 77. f. 45 . . . . . 1889 Ectobia. 



panzeri BURR Brit. Orth. p. 22, pi. ii, f. 2 . 1897 Ectobia. 



Panzeri KIRBY Syn Cat. Orth. p. 62 . 1904 Ectobia. 



panzeri SHELFORD Gen. Ins. fasc. 55, p. 7 . 1907 Ectobia. 



BURR Syn. Orth. W. Eur. p. 12 . . 1910 Ectobia. 



LUCAS Proc. S. Lond. Eiit. Soc. p. 35^ 



pi. iii, f . 2 . 1915 Ectobius. 



nigripes STEPH. 111. Brit. Ent, Mand. vi. p. 48 



(var.) ....... 1835 Ectobius. 



(Other synonyms are: germanica Panzer; concolor Serv. ; arenicola 

 Fisch.) 



ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION. 



Ectobius panzeri. Elongatus, pallide-ochraceo-flavescens, tlwracis 

 disco testaceo-fusco, elyt.ris pallidis lateribus meinbranaceo-pellucidis, 

 disco fere immacidato, antennis pedibusque piceis. (Long. corp. 5-6 lin.) 

 Bl. Panzeri. Steph. Catal. 304, ^7"o. 3360. Bl. germanica. Panzer 

 Faun. Germ, ii, f. 16. 



Slightly elongate, or elliptic ; of a pale ochreous yellow ; head 

 dusky ; mouth pale ; thorax with its disc testaceous -brown, sometimes 

 a little blackish, the margins pale and pellucid ; elytra also pale, the 

 lateral margins pellucid brownish-yellow, the disc with a few minute 

 brownish atoms ; abdomen beneath pitchy, above pale testaceous 

 brown ; legs pale pitchy, the femora palest and without spines ; 

 antennse also pitchy. ( j. F. Stephens, ' Illustr. Brit. Ent. Mand.' vi, 

 p. 47, 1835.) 



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