1884. J 147 



in the females. Stephens, deceived by this, considered them to belong to separate 

 genera, the female being his Meligethes dulcatnarcB, and the male his Fria trunca- 

 tella. Length, 1 lin. 



Local, but widely distributed, on flowers of Solanum dulcamara. 



Thaltcra, Erichson. 

 T. sericea, Sturm.— Bright rust-red, shining, ovate ; thorax strongly punctured ; 

 elytra strongly punctured at base, more feebly at apex ; elytra and thorax closely 

 fringed with short white hairs ; antennae with first joint enlarged, almost semi- 

 circular, club round and very compact ; anterior tibise simple, posterior pairs armed 



with spines on the exterior side ; occasionally the elytra are of a darker colour. 



Length, li — 2 lin. 



Widely distributed, but rare ; at sap o£ infected Cossus trees, and 

 occasionally by evening sweeping ; Birch Wood, Shirley, Ripley, 

 Esher, Surbiton, Mickleham, Loughton, Balcombe (Sussex), Tilgate, 

 Bromley, Forres ; it is the same as Strongylus fervidus, Steph., which, 

 according to Stephens, inhabits fungi; Erichson says that the probable 

 habitat of this species is under-ground, as the structure of the legs 

 seems to indicate, but that on hot summer evenings it comes out on 

 grass and low vegetation. 



PocADius, Erichson. 



This genus has a sort of superficial resemblance to Thalycra and 

 Cychramus, but may be distinguished from the first by the regular 

 rows of punctures on the elytra, which are separated by regular rows 

 of yellow hairs, and from the latter by the compact round club of the 

 antennae (the club in Cychramus being elongate), and the fact that the 

 anterior tibiae are produced into a strong point at apex. 



F.ferrugineus, Fabr. — Oval, convex, shining, of a reddish-brown colour, apex 



•of elytra sometimes darker ; antennae very short, light red, with dark club, which is 



Tery compact ; thorax very short in comparison with elytra, with narrow, though 



distinct, margins, rather difEusely and obscurely punctured ; elytra punctured as 



above ; legs light red, with all the tibiae produced into a point at apex. 



Length, 1| — 2 lin. 



Local, but widely distributed, in fungi, especially, Lycoperdons. 

 (To he continuedj. 



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Cis hilamellatus, Wood. — In the description of this insect on p. 130 of this 

 ' volume, owing to a mistake, " puhe pared," which I wrote, was printed ^'puhe paucd,'* 

 and " utrumque " was omitted in line 11, which should read " utrmnque puhe flavd 

 \ordinibus dispositd vesiitum/' &c. I had nothing to do with the description in 

 (English, which I did not see until I received the Magazine, but I may perhaps be 

 ulaHowed to point out that in lines 8 and 10 for "emarginate" we ought to read 

 margined." — Id. : November 13th, 1884. 



