1805. 85 



2. — Euacanthus acuminatus, Fab. 



Prfficedenti affinis ; differt fronte planiore, medio carinata, cj.. ? , 

 (quaa iu E. interrupta ^ tantum carinam gerit) ; turn et coloribus dis- 

 tinctus. Sordide et pallide testaceus ; vertex et pronotum uigro varia ; 

 hemelytrorum cellulae hie illic iufuscatfe, sutura costaque semper pallen- 

 tibus. Pedes concolores ; tarsi apice fiisci. Long. 2|-3i liu. 



Cicada acuminata, Fab , S.E., p. 76 ; interstincta, Pall., Hem. 

 2, p. 29. Amhlycephalus Germari, Curt., B.E. 572, fig., and 

 Ent. Mag. 1, p. 192. Euac. acuminatus, Plor, E.L. 2, p. 152. 



Much less common than the preceding, with which it may be found 

 associated, both in the Kentish hop-grounds and elsewhere. My sj^e- 

 cimens are from Darenth Wood. Curtis mentions Clifton and the 

 London district. The figure in " British Entomology " is somewhat 

 over-coloured, but still unmistakeable. 



The rest of the genus Amllycephalus, as published in Curtis's work, 

 consists of very far-fetched materials : No. 5, mncuUj^es, and No. 6, 

 irroratus, are doubtless Acocephalus {Selenocep)liaJus) agrestis, Pall. ; 

 and !No. 7, nervosus, is apparently lassus attenuatus, Germ. 



(To he continued.) / \i 



Epurcea diffusa; a species new to Britain. — I have for some time had in my 

 collection an Epwcea, which I supposed to be new to science ; but, on looking over 

 Grenier's recent Catalogue of the Coleoptera of France, I find it has been there 

 described by M. Ch. Brisout de Barneville, under the name of E. diffusa. 



It is considerably like E. 10-guttata, but only half the size ; the spots on the 

 elytra being not nearly so well marked as in that species, and sometimes so 

 confluent as to leave the elytra pale testaceous, with one or two ill defined darker 

 patches of the normal ground colour. In the male, the basal joints of the tarsi 

 are dilated ; and the posterior femora, although stouter than the others, are simple, 

 as are also the hinder tibia3.* 



I have only seen two specimens ; one ( c? ) taken by myself at the oozing sap 

 of a recently felled oak, the other (?) obtained by mo from Mr. Brewer. 



" Normandy and Paris, in wounds of oak and elm." Bris., in Grenier's Cat. 

 Col. Fr., Materiaux, &c., 46. — D. Sharp, Loudoun Road, St. John's Wood, 

 August, 1865. 



Note on Cryptocephalus hipustulatus. — I have recently taken a pair of this 

 insect (all that I have known captured for several years) upon Chat-Moss, on 



* Brisout states that the femora are simple with their tarsi, vrhich is evidently a laptut calami 

 for Cibite.—'D.S. 



