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2. Uijpcr side pitchy, suture, as a rule, testaceous ; leers 

 Hiore slender ; biis;:l furrows of thorax uarr<)wer and 

 deeper ; auteiiiia; with three basal joints glabrous . . 15. SIMILIS, Dej. 



B. placidus, Gyll. Head large, eyes proniineiit, antennse somewhat 

 variable, but usually fuscous with three basal joints testaceous ; thorax 

 reddish testaceous, with a dark patch in the middle, which sometimes is 

 small, but sometimes is spread over the whole disc, posterior angles 

 almost rounded ; elytra testaceous with a narrower or broader black 

 stripe near suture, the latter being always pale ; legs pale testaceous. 

 L. 4 mm. 



Local. Wliittlesea Mere and Wicken Fen; Aspall, Suffolk; banks of Thames; 

 Shirley; Lincoln; north of England ; Scotland, local. Lowlands, Highlands, Tweed, 

 Tay, Dec, Moray. 



B. cog-natus, Gyll. {Deutsclii, Sahl). Very like the preceding, 

 but slightly smaller, darker, and very finely pubescent ; thorax with 

 margins as a rule more narrowly testaceous, and with posterior angles 

 more rounded ; el3'tra varying in colour in different specimens, but with 

 the dark markings generally more widely spread over the disc than in 

 ]i. ]>laciihis ; the striae also are less deep and the sides less dilated behind 

 than in that species ; legs pitchy black, tibise lighter. L. 4 mm. 



Local ; on heaths and mountains in high districts, but occasionally found in low- 

 land localities. Cannock Chase, Colesliill, Sutton Park ; North Wales ; in profusion 

 near Llangollen; Cheshire; said to have occurred near Bournemouth; north of 

 Knglaud ; Scotland, common in highhiiid and alpine districts ; L'eland, near 

 Belfast. 



B. distinctus, Dej. {cordicolUs, Wesm.). Dark ferruginous red ; 

 head lai'ge ; tliniax with sides rounded in front, contracted behind, pos- 

 terior angles sharp and distinct, base coarsely punctured ; elytra convex, 

 Avith sides somewhat rounded, deei)ly striated, third interstice without 

 the usual pore ; legs and antenna? red. L. 4.j mm. 



Damp places in moss and at the roots of grass, ;ilso under leaves and refuse near 

 ponds; widely distributed and not uucomniou in the middle and south of Kng'.and, 

 very rare in the north ; Scotland very rare, Lowlands, near Dumfries and Thornhill. 



B. verbasci, Duft. (riifuli/s, Dej.). Very like the preceding, but 

 usually of a light red colour ; thorax nearly quadrate with the posterior 

 angles blunt but distinctly visible ; elytra variable in colour, sometimes 

 (juite light, at other times much darker, sometimes light with darker 

 markings on each clytruu ; it is also rather variable as to size. L. 4-4^ 

 mm. 



Common and generally distributed in England ; Scotland, common Lowlands ; 

 Ireland, counnon near Dublin, and near Armagh. 



B. harpalinus, I'ej. {/i//nis, Fairni.). Closely allied U> the pre- 

 ceding, but darker and more convex ; thorax with postiTior angles very 



