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39. TiriNOFHILUS Wahlbg. 



1 (2) Legs mainly pale yellowish 1. ruficornis Jia\. 



2 (1) Legs mainly blackish, knees and tip of tibiae ferruginous... 



2. flavipalpis Zett. 



1. T. ruficornis Hal. : not uncommon on the Hampshire coasts. 



2. T. flavipalpis Zett. : "Walker says, " Inhabits the sea-coast and 



about sale springs ; rare with us. In Mr. Walker's col- 

 lection. (E.)." It is strange that I have never seen a 

 British specimen of this large and remarkable species. 



40. SCHCENOPHILUS Mik. 

 *S^. versutus Walk. : 1 have taken it freely at Lyndhurst and 

 Seaford. 



41. APHROSYLUS Walk. 



1 (4) Fair sized species ; antennae black. 



2 (3) Hind femora with 3 — 4 small but distinct bristles above near base ; 



normally slaty-grey ...1. celtiber'RsX. 



3 (2) Hind femora without any distinct bristles above near base ; normally 



ochreous-grey 2. raptor Walk. 



4 (1) Small species ; antennae ferruginous at base 3. /eroa; Walk. 



1. A. celtiher Hal. : this species was originally distinguished from 

 A. rapior by Haliday on account of its slaty-grey colour as 

 compared with the rather ochreous-grey of A. t^apfor, and 

 also by the front tarsi being more equally dilated. In A. 

 rapior the tip of the first joint of the front tarsi is distinctly 

 though only slightly dilated, and the extreme base of the 

 second joint is almost equally dilated ; in A. celtiher the 

 extreme tip of the basal joint is slightly dilated, and also the 

 second joint for about two-thirds of its length. This dis- 

 tinction of the tarsi appears to hold good, but a far more 

 easily distinguished character lies in the presence of some 

 short but obvious bristles above the hind femora near the 

 base in A. celtiher, which are entirely absent in A. raptor. 

 At one time I thought the colour character a good one, but 

 a series of specimens taken by Col. Terbury at Torcross in 

 August, 1903, completely disprove its value, unless they 

 belong to a third very closely allied species ; as a rule A. 

 raptor is somewhat ochreous-grey, with bright ferruginous 

 legs, as against the dark slaty-grey colour of A. celtiher, 

 vrhich usually, but not always, has more than the basal half 

 of the front femora distinctly black, and about the basal 

 third of the posterior femora indistinctly blackish, and all the 



