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of the British Lonfjicorncs. It is a large beetle of a deep velvety black 

 colour, with Ibiir trausverse reddish-yellow bands ou the elytra. Some 

 examples have a most beautiful gl'J^^y Jippearance. Most of the speci- 

 mens extant have been taken in the New Forest. It has also occmTed 

 at Plymouth, Barnstaple, Swansea, and in Ireland. Mr. Janson has 

 taken it at Lyndhurst, and Mr. Jackson, of Bournemouth, near Denny 

 "Wood, It is found on flowers and sitting on logs. Strangalia 

 quadrifascinta, L., is a yellow insect with four black bands on the 

 elytra and black legs. It is allied to the preceding, but is neither so 

 beautiful nor so large. It is more or less rare, but inhabits many 

 localities, and is widely distributed, occurring at Dareuth "Wood, 

 Hastings, Cannock Chase, Sherwood Forest, Isle of Wight, Ireland, 

 etc. It was taken last year at AVeybridge and Sevenoaks. It is 

 found on flowers — UrnbeUiferae, ragwort, scabious, etc. Strangalia 

 revestita, L., is a very rare insect. It ,is recorded by Stephens 

 from Colney Hatch and various other localities, and by S. Stevens 

 from Darenth and Bu'ch woods. It does not appear to have 

 been taken for many years. The specimen in Dr. Power's collec- 

 tion is without locality. It is a reddish insect with black elytra, 

 the latter, however, vary to being entirely rufous. Strangalia armata, 

 Herbst, is the most abundant species of the genus, being common from 

 the J\Iidlands, southwards ; it is rare, however, in Scotland and the north. 

 It is black, with the legs and antenme yellow, marked with black, and 

 the elytra yellow, with black s})ots and bauds. It varies so much that 

 in some individuals the elytra appear to be black w'ith yellow markings, 

 whereas in others they appear to be all yellow, with very little black 

 markings. It is found on the flowers of Urnbdliferae, etc., and may be 

 obtained by beating and swee})ing, it is also often observed on the wing. 

 It is common in Leicestershire, where I have taken it, also in the New 

 Forest, at Bishop's "Wood, Epsom, Oxted, "Wey bridge, Chiddingfold, etc. 

 I have recently noticed several specimens of this insect hovering over a 

 wild rose bush in the same way as the I'achgta ceravibgciformis did over 

 the laurel bush ; I had never seen Longicornes doing this before. Stran- 

 galia atfennata, L., is decidedly doubtfully indigenous. I can learn 

 nothing trustworthy about it, and why it is kept in the Catalogue, instead 

 of ))eiug i)laced amongst the doubtful species, I cannot understand. The 

 specimens in the Power collection are not S. attennata at all, but 

 only aberrations of the preceding species. Strangalia nigra, L., is 

 a small, shiny, black species with the abdomen red. It is found on 

 flowers, etc. It is local and not common, but occurs in various 

 localities, not further north, however, than the IMidlands. It is fairly 

 common in the New Forest, where I have swept it in numbers from 

 flowers and herbage in open places, and have found it sparingly at 

 Chiddingfold. ]\Ir. Bates records it from Leicestershire. Strangalia 

 m<'la)inra, h. : this species difl'ers considerably in the sexes, the male 

 is blaelc with testaceous elytra, the suture of which is narrowly black, 

 and the apex broadly so. In the female the elytra are bright red, with 

 the suture and apex broadly black. This si)ecies is common and 

 generally distributed, from the Midlands, st)uthwards, rarer furtiier 

 north. 1 have taken it in the New Forest, at Oxted and other localities 

 in the London district, and at Chiddingfold. Messrs. Bates and 

 Bouskell iiave taken it in Leicestershire. It is found on I'mbelliferae, 

 etc., and is to be obtained by general sweeping. 

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