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the base of the antennae red. It is also, as a rule, a smaller insect. It 

 is common, and generally distributed throughout England, but rarer in 

 Scotland. It has been recorded from Ireland. It is found on flowers, 

 I mhelliferae, hawthorn, etc. I have taken it all over the London 

 district, in the New Forest, and at Chiddingfold, etc. Graino2)tera 

 jrraeusta, F. {ustnlata, Schall.), is a rare and local insect of a golden 

 yellow colour, with the head and apex of the elytra black. It is chiefly 

 confined to the New Forest, where I have taken it sparingly, by beating 

 hawthorn blossom. It has been recorded from near Southsea. 



In Acanthocmns aedilis, L., the antennse are very long, being 

 four times as long as the body in the male. It is a northern insect, 

 and is mostly found in Scotland, the English specimens taken being 

 perhaps importations in timber. Mr. Rye has a specimen in his 

 collection, given to him by a Mr. Percival, who took it at Brent 

 Knoll, in Somersetshire, 1889, crawling up a signboard. Mr. Tomlin 

 tells me he occasionally takes it in Chester, at the docks. It is a 

 brownish insect, covered with grey pubescence. The female has the 

 ovipositor exserted. Grenerally found on pine or fir logs. It is locally 

 called " Timber Man." 



Leiojms nehulosus, L., a beetle mottled with black spots and grey 

 pubescence, is widely distributed throughout the country, being com- 

 mon in the London district and the New Forest. Mr. Bouskell 

 records it from Buddon, Burdon and Owston, in Leicestershire. It 

 can be taken by beating faggots, dead hedges, hawthorn blossom, etc. 

 I have found the pupte in numbers under the bark of a tree, at Wim- 

 bledon Park, and have taken it by beating at Combe Wood, and 

 sweeping at Chiddingfold, etc. Some melauic forms occur. 



Of our three species of Fogonochaerns, one is Scotch and the other 

 two are found in both England and Ireland as well. They bear a 

 superficial resemblance to each other, but may be easily distinguished, as 

 will be seen. They are all small fuscous-brown insects, variegated with 

 whitish pubescence, which forms a band across the elytra, rogono- 

 chaerus fascicidatus, De Gr. — This Scotch species may be known 

 by the fact that it has no spines to the apex of the elytra. 

 It is local, occurring in boughs and twigs of pine and Scotch fir 

 at Rannoch, Braemar and Aviemore, etc. The next species, I'ogono- 

 chaerus bidentatus, Thoms {his])idus, Brit. Cat.), has two spines on 

 the apex of each elytron ; the one at the sutural angle being the smaller. 

 It is local and not common, but widely distributed. I have taken it by 

 beating a hazel hedge in the Hastings district, on hawthorn blossom in 

 North Wales, and in the New Forest, and under bark of oak in Buddon 

 Wood (Ijeicestershire), in January, 1897-8, where no doubt it was 

 hyberuating. Mr. Bouskell records it from Owston and Buddon 

 Woods, and Mr. Headley from the latter locality. It is also to be 

 found under bark of apple and pear trees. The last species, Pogono- 

 chaerus dentatiis, Fourc. {his^ndus, Schr.), has a spine on the outer 

 angle of the apex of the elytra only. It is common, and generally dis- 

 tributed in the London district and the south, and is found in twigs, old 

 hedges, and may be obtained by beating hawthorn blossom, etc. I have 

 taken it freely in the New Forest, by beating hawthorn blossom, and 

 in Cambridgeshire, by sweeping under |)lum trees. Mr. Bouskell 

 records it from Owston and Buddon Woods. 



Our next insect, Lamia textor, L., is a large, broad, conspicuous 



