Celi'i.] ADEPIIAGA. 73 



A. livida, ^.(/jifiwis, Gyll., oricJialc/'ra, Daws. G. D., rufocvicfa, Sahib., 

 71CC l>ej.). Oltloug ovate, brassy brown, occasionally greenish ; antennas 

 and palpi entirely reddish yellow ; head small with projecting eyes ; 

 thorax much broader than long with sides very slightly rounded, 

 feebly contracted in front, straight behind, posterior angles right angles, 

 these together with the side margins reddish, dorsal furrow feeble at 

 apex and base, base depressed, punctured, with two large strongly 

 punctured foveie on each side ; elytra scarcely broader than thorax, 

 moderately striated, the striae evidently punctured; legs entirely 

 redtlish yellow. L. 5-7 mm. 



This species somewhat resembles A. familians, but may at once be 

 distinguished by its entirely red-yellow antenna3 and the coarsely 

 punctured base of thorax. 



Local, but not uncommon ; sandy and gravelly places ; widely distributed through- 

 out the country from north to south; Scotland, local, Lowlands; also an Irish 

 sjiecies. 



A. fusca, Pej. Fusco-seneous, with feeble bronze reflection in 

 female, stronger in male, under side pitchy ; upper side flat, rather 

 dull ; head small, eyes very convex and prominent, antennte and palpi 

 red ; tliorax transverse, subcpiadrate, slightly narroM'ed in front and 

 very sliglitly behind (more so in female than in male), posterior angles 

 l)luut riglit angles, dorsal furrow fine but distinct, base almost im- 

 })unctate in middle with two punctured fovete on each side ; elytra 

 distinctly broader than thorax, finely striated, the striae finely but 

 distinctly punctured, interstices flat, side margin reddish at apex. L. 

 cS mm. 



There is consideraljle confusion as to this species, as both ingeyiua, 

 Duft., and fusca, Dej., have been included in our lists, and it is 

 almost certain that we only possess the latter, which only differs from 

 the former in being considerably flatter and of more parallel form, with 

 lighter antenna; and legs, a less robust head, but much more prominent 

 eyes, the thorax less transverse, the elytra less strongly striated, i^'c, 

 Dawson's description of ingenua (Geod. Brit. 125) will apply equally 

 well to either species, and, therefore, as it is certain that the Swansea 

 specimens belong to /('/•sra, and as he himself compared these with his 

 own (Ent. Ann. 1858, 53), it is most probable that his single specimen 

 frmn Scotland was also that species, and that we do not possess i/ii/cHua 

 at ;dl. 



Very rare; a considor.ible number of specimens were taken at Swansea by Mr. 

 H. Adams many years ago. Doncaster (Dr. J. W. Kllis, wlio iiiCorms me that there 

 is no doubt as to the locality of tlie specimen) ; I'luinstead (W. West) ; Newcastle 

 I VVailes) ; Scotland, one specimen recorded by D.iwsoii, with no locality, as 

 A. hifjenua. 



A. Quenselii, Sdiiln. Upper side dark brassy, redilisli, melallic 

 rellection more or h-ss distinct, female duller than male ; elytra occa- 

 sionally non-metallic, dull ferruginous, with greenish thorax ; head 



