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Not common, althougli rather local, on broom, nettles, hawthorn, 

 and TTmhelliferce. Cowley, Dareuth, Horsell, Guildford, New Forest ; 

 Bearsted, Kent, on roses, particularly garden ones, Mr. Gorham ; 

 Southgate, Loughton, Southampton, on Pulicaria dysenterica, Mr. 

 Newbery ; MicMeham, Amberley, Esher, Eepton, &c. In Mr. Eye's 

 collection there is a very small specimen hardly one line in length, 

 with well-marked semi-circular depressions on each side of the thorax, 

 but this is evidently abnormal. 



h. Species emaller, rather narrow-oblong ; punctuation and cross 

 striation of elytra not forming wavy lines ; antennae en- 

 tirely light. 

 M. fulvipes, Bris. — Oblong-ovate, black, with occasionally a leaden reflection, 

 with short grey pubescence ; very finely punctured with distinct cross reticulation be- 

 tween the punctures ; legs and antennse light red or reddish-yellow, occasionally 

 rather darker ; anterior tibiae with very fine, almost imperceptible, teeth, which are 

 slightly stronger at apex. Length, 1 — li lin. 



Askham Bog, Fairlight, North Devon, Dagenham, Strood, South- 

 end ; very local in marshy places on TJmhelUfercB and Genistcs. 



This is a very distinct species, and cannot M^ell be confounded 

 with any other ; rubbed examples occasionally resemble, at first sight, 

 some specimens of M. picipes, but the shape, and the straight, slender 

 and very finely toothed anterior tibiae wdll at once mark the difference ; 

 the very plain cross reticulation between the punctures is a valuable 

 character for the species. 



B. Legs dark ; at most anterior tibise somewhat lighter. 



a. Elytra unevenly and rugosely punctured with strong transverse 



striation between punctures ; length under one line. 



M. suhrugosus, Gyll. — Ovate, rather convex, shining black ; elytra rugosely 



punctured with strong transverse striation, especially towards base ; the front tibiae 



are very finely crenulate, as in M. corvinus, and are rather lighter than the rest, but 



all the legs are more or less pitchy. Length, | lin. 



A common continental species, but only one specimen has been 

 found in Britain ; it was taken by Dr. Sharp many years ago on the 

 banks of the Water of Ken, Galloway. 



The peculiar rugose and wavy sculpture, which is nearest to, but 

 not quite distinct from, the sculpture of M. rufipes, is the chief cha- 

 racteristic of this remarkable insect, which in some points resembles 

 at first sight M, serripes ; this sculpture is very well seen if the insect 

 be placed under a compound microscope in a cross half light. M. 

 suhstrigosus, Er., is a variety of this species of not quite so deep 

 black a colour, less convex, with finer cross striation, and with lighter 

 legs and antenn?e, according to Erichson ; M. Brisout, how^ever, says 

 that they are darker than in the type form. 



