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pitchy red, without any metallic reflection, transverse, bordei-ed, distinctly biit 

 very finely ahitaceous, with piinctuation fine and remote, often scarcely visible. 

 Elytra : livid testaceous, with suture variable in colour, black or pitchy, generally 

 broad and suifused, punctiiation only moderately strong, apices separately, 

 bhintly angled, almost rounded. Legs: generally pitchy testaceous with 

 posterior femora always black; first joint of anterior tarsi in <? rather more 

 enlarged than in ? . Posterior tibial spurs rather long. Underside black. 

 Usually winged, but semi-apterous specimens occur. Length If — 2 mm. 



In the diflBcult ^roup to which this species belongs, it may usually 

 be recognised by its generally darker colour and shorter form, and 

 more certainly by the very fine or obsolete punctuation of the thorax. 

 The variation in colour of the elytra and the strength of the sutural 

 band is considerable, specimens occurring in which the elytra are 

 almost entirely testaceous, and we have seen an example taken by 

 Mr. G. Brown at Coatbridge, near Glasgow, almost completely blatck. 



Pood plants.— Fowler and Bedel give Senecio, and it has on the 

 Sussex Downs been definitely traced to Senecio jacohxa by Mr. H. C. 

 Dollman. 



Distribution general throughout the kingdom. 



Y Sir. —fuscicoUis, Steph., the form with the thorax light pitchy, 

 almost red, and in a more or less pronounced degree, is almost as 

 common as the type. 



\g,r.—2)aludosus, Weise [p. 970]. This is what Weise calls " the 

 form of the plains"; he describes it as winged, with more slender 

 antennse, head and thorax black, elytra brownish yellow, without any 

 reddish tinge, suture broadly black. 



Var. — macer, Weise [l.c.'\. According to this authority, the 

 universal form in the South of Europe, smaller, narrower, with the 

 suture narrowly black, and possessing wings. 



We must confess our inability to separate any of these as 

 distinct varietal or local forms among British examples of the species, 

 although specimens occur promiscuously which might be comparable 

 with either of them. 



L. sENECioNis, Bris. [Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1873, p. ccxviii] ; Bedel 

 [Col. Bass. Seine, V, p. 192]. 



Syn. liiciceps, Brit. Colls. 



In his note on this species (I.e., supra), Ch. Brisout says that he 

 is re-naming the L. atricillus of Foudras, " comme il y a deja un 

 L. atricillus, Gjll." ; but atricillus, Foudr., in the opinion of most 



