70 the entomologist's record. 



8. Antaxius kraussi, Bolivar (nee kraussi, Brunner). 



Resembles the preceding, but differs in the elytra having the veins 

 dark greyish or blackish, and there being no tympanum on the left 

 elytron ; the anal segment of the male is produced into two spines ; 

 the subgenital lamina of the female has a deep median sulcus, and the 

 ovipositor is curved downwards. Length of body, 16mm. $ and ? ; 

 of pronotum, 4mm. $ , 4*9mm. $ ; of elytra, 3mm. 3 , 2mm. ? ; of 

 posterior femora, 16mm. $ , 18mm. ? ; of ovipositor, 19mm. ? . 



It must be noted that this is not the species described under this 

 name by Brunner in his Prodromus : Brunner's insect is the same as 

 A. hispanicus of Bolivar. 



A native of Spain, recorded from Albarracin, El Salto and Portella. 



4. Antaxius pedestris, Fabr. 



Chestnut or pale ; the elytra are black, with a large yellow spot ; 

 this, with the shorter ovipositor, the triangular lobes of the subgenital 

 lamina of the female, and the two or three spines beneath the femora, 

 distinguish it from A. hispanicus. The femora are also longer and 

 more slender. Length of body, 19mm. $ , 23mm. 2 ; of pronotum, 

 5 - 2mm. $ , 6'2mm. $ ; of elytra, 4mm. $ , l'dmm. $ ; of posterior 

 femora, 17mm. $ , 21mm. ? ; of ovipositor, 17mm. ? . 



Fairly common in the Tirol, Vorarlberg, and Piedmont, and 

 generally in the southern Alps on shrubs. In France, it occurs in the 

 south, at Larche, Aix-les-Bains, Cannes, Hyeres, Saint Martin, 

 Lantosque, Gavarnie, Bagneres de Luchon, Chanrousse, Ramatuel, 

 Bagnols, Montauroux, and le Rayran. As it seems to be fairly 

 common in the French Pyrenees, it may be expected to occur on the 

 Spanish side. It does not occur in the northern Alps. 



5. Antaxius sorrezensis, Marquet. 



Distinguished from A. pedestris by the unspotted bright green 

 colour, by the trace of a central keel on the posterior part of the 

 pronotum, which has the hinder border entire, by the unicolorous side 

 flaps of the pronotum, by the longer elytra of the female, by the six 

 or seven spines beneath the posterior femora, by the subgenital lamina 

 of the female, with lobes long and half-crescent shaped; the male is 

 not known. Length of body, 22mm. $ ; of pronotum, 6 , 5mm. J ; of 

 elytra, lmm. 5 ; of ovipositor, 20mm. $>'. 



Discovered on shrubs and oaks near the road from Revel to 

 Camazes, in Languedoc. 



6. Antaxius hispanicus, Bolivar 

 (=kraussi, Brunner nee Bolivar). 



Allied to A. pedestris ; differs in the unspotted reddish elytra, with 

 the hinder border subobliquely truncated, by the longer elytra of the 

 female, by the unarmed posterior femora, and blunter rounder lobes of 

 the subgenital lamina of the female. Length of body, 16mm. $ , 

 19mm. -23mm. ? ; of pronotum, 5-5mm. $ , 6mm. 5 ; of elytra, 3mm.- 

 5mm. J, lmm. -3mm. $; of ovipositor, 17mm. -21mm. ?; of posterior 

 femora, 15-5mm. $ , 17mm. $ . 



Very rare in France, as yet only found on Canigou, in the eastern 

 Pyrenees. In Spain, at Nuria, Gerona, Monseny, Set Casas in 

 Catalonia, and at Panticosa in the Pyrenees, and also at Albarracin. 



