1-38 ADEPHAGA. [Lehia. 



extreme apical margin black ; the extremities of the waved band are 

 usually continued to apex, so that with the apical margin thej' completely 

 enclose two light spots : varieties, however, occur in which the band is 

 interrupted (as sometimes happens in Panagceus) ; striae feeble, and very 

 finely punctured, interstices with fine diffuse punctures, almost smooth ; 

 underside black, except of thorax which is red ; legs red, apex of femora, 

 and tarsi, pitchy. L. 5 6 mm. 



Very rare ; damp places in woods, &c. ; it has been found in moss, beaten from 

 broom, and taken " at sugar " by night ; it also occurs under faggots and stones : 

 Plumstoad, Tonbridge Wells, Coombe Wood, Headley Lane, Crohamhurst Godalming, 

 from all which localities in Kent and Surrey single examples have been recorded ; the 

 largest number of examples taken in any one place were found by Dr. Power at 

 Holm Bush near Brighton, in May, 1857, and he probably would have found a con- 

 siilerable number more, had the ground not been flooded by a thunder shower ; 

 Basingstoke (W. J. Saunders) ; Dawson records Windsor, Bristol, Netley, Lymington, 

 and Treneglos, Cornwall, as localities : in Scotland the species has occurred near Loch 

 Lomond, aud very rarely in the Clyde and Solway districts : this insect is widely dis- 

 tributed over Southern aud Central Europe, Asia Minor aud Siberia. 



Ii. haemorrhoidalis, F. (jnarginata, Fourc). Red, elytra black or 

 bluish black with the apex red, breast black ; head and thorax finely 

 punctured, the latter short, much dilated and rounded at the sides ; 

 elytra with the shoulders rounded and prominent, sides dilated behind 

 middle, with feeble and feebly punctured strise, interstices flat, diffusely 

 and weakly punctured ; third stria with tAvo small pores ; antennae and 

 legs testaceous. L, 4 mm. 



"Netley, Shropshire, on broom. Rev. F. W. Hope," Stephens; Dr. Power has a 

 specimen taken by Mr. Sidebotham, near Devizes ; the species, however, is very doubt- 

 fully indigenous. 



Xi. turcica, F. {scapidaris, Fourc). Smaller than crux-minor ; head 

 black, mouth, palpi, and antennae reddish testaceous ; thorax reddish 

 with a deep central line, scutellum reddish ; elytra black with a large 

 reddish testaceous patch on the shoulders, and a very slender margin of 

 the same colour extending to apex, deeply striated, interstices convex, 

 these and the striae themselves almost impunctate ; breast and legs red, 

 abdomen black, paler in centre ; legs testaceous. L. 5 mm. 



The claim of this species to be regarded as British rested for many 

 years on four specimens reported to have been captured, many years ago, 

 in Oakhampton Park. In the Ent. Mo. Mag. for June, 1883 (vol xx., 

 p. 8), a specimen is recorded as taken from birch stumps in a clearing 

 near Guestling, Hastings, by Mr. Eennett ; this specimen appears to be 

 authentic, but further confirmation of the species is much needed. 



AETOPHORUS, Schmidt-Goebel. 



One species only is contained in this genus, and this is included by 

 some authors under Demetrias ; from the species of this genus it is dis- 

 tinguished by the quite simple claws of the tarsi, by the large pro- 

 jecting paraglossce, and by the absence of a tooth in the emargination of 

 the mentum. 



