STENOBOTHBUS LIXKA'LTS. 233 



femora sometimes green above, otherwise legs brown. 

 Tip of abdomen reddish in this sex. 



FEMALE IMAGO (PL XXIII, fig. 8). Colouring in 

 general as in male. Size much bulkier; length some 

 1923 mm. Antennae shorter than in the male. Elytro 

 about as long as the abdomen ; a whitish streak between 

 the two branches of the sub-costa. Ovipositor (fig. 

 25) heavy-looking, all the valves having an external 



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tooth. 



DATK. It is sometimes mature bv the end of Julv ; 



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but August and September are the best months for the 



FIG. 25. Ovipositor of Stenobothri's lin>.''ih<s Panzer. Side vie\v, much 



magnified. 



species in the imaginal condition. It continues, how- 

 ever, into October. The nymph stage may continue 

 for a long time ; one taken on October 18th became 

 an imago in captivity on October 21st. 



HABITS.- -Personally I have not had very much 

 experience of the species in natural conditions. Shaw 

 says its habitat is dry meadows. I know it only from 

 cliff sides, and the southern slope of the Xorth Downs. 

 In the latter locality it appears to flourish. 



DISTRIBUTION.- -Europe except in the extreme north 

 (Burr) ; Siberia (Kirby). It is reported from England, 

 France, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and Sweden at 

 least. 



BRITISH LOCALITIKS. 



All of the records, which are not at all numerous, are from 

 England, most of them being in the south, frequently near 

 the sea. 



