78 ADEPHAGA. lAmava. 



easily be supposed to be a small variety ; the eyes, however, are more 

 prominent, and the anterior margin of thorax much less emarginate, 

 and therefore the anterior angles are much less projecting ; but for these 

 differences, which after all are comparative, as may be seen by examining 

 the insects side by side, this species might with very good reason be 

 suppressed as a small variety of A. faniilmris. L. 4|^-5 mm. 



Sandy places ; at roots of grass and in moss. Local, bxit occasionally found in 

 abundance on the coast, rare inland. Deal; Hastings; Sheerness ; Forest Hill; 

 Reigate ; Shirley ; Colchester ; Liverpool district ; Batli ; Llangollen ; Swansea ; 

 l^arniouth ; Bournemouth; Isle of Wiglit; Weston-super-Mare; Whitley, near 

 Newcastle-on-Tjnie, very rare ; Scotland very rare, Moray district. 



A. trivialis, Gyll. Variable in colour, brassy, greenish, bluish, or 

 almost black ; female duller ; antennte with three first joints and base of 

 the fourth red ; thorax moderately rounded from apex to base, broadest at 

 base, posterior angles right angles, dorsal furrow abbreviated in front and 

 behind, base with two impressions on each side, the outer one usually 

 obsolete, the inner often taking the form of a small deep fovea re- 

 moved to some distance from hind margin, base impunctate or nearly 

 so ; elytra narrowed at apex, finely striated, the striae scarcely perceptibly 

 punctured, deeper at apex ; femora and tarsi black, tibiae pitchy or pitchy 

 red. L. 6 mm. 



Common as a rule throughout the kingdom, but not recorded from the extreme 

 north of Scotland, and said to be local near Dublin, which is the only Irish record 

 that I can find ; it is, however, most probably common in Ireland : it ranges fiom 

 the Azores and Morocco to Siberia ; it may be seen in abundance in early spring on 

 roads and pathways running in the sun. 



A. communis, Panz. {vulgaris, Daws. G. D.). Brassy, sometimes 

 greenish, or bluish-black, shining; antennae with the first three joints and 

 base of the fourth red, but occasionally the upper side of the third joint 

 is broAvnish, in which case the whole fourth joint is brown ; thorax rather 

 strongly emarginate in front with the anterior angles produced, gradually 

 rouncletl from apex to base, posterior angles right angles, but not sharp, 

 dorsal furrow fine, base minutely and obsoletely punctured with two 

 more or less obsolete fovea? on each side (occasionally it is impimctate 

 and the foveas almost imperceptible) ; elytra plainly striated, the striai 

 distinctly deeper behind, usually obsoletely punctured towards base ; 

 femora and tarsi pitchy, tibiae (and occasionally also tarsi) ferruginous. 



Widely distributed throughout England and Ireland, and common in many places, 

 but somewhat local. Scotland, not common, reaching as far north as the Moray 

 district. 



A> continua, Thoms. (co7iVexior, Stoph.). This species, which has 

 been separated by Thomson from the preceding, dift'ers I'rom A. (■omniunis 

 so slightly, that it is a question whether it ought to be regarded as 

 anything more than a variety : it comes between A. limicoUis and A. 

 comnimiis, having the build of the former insect, and also (like lunicullis) 

 having the row of large punctures on the margin of the elytra con- 



