96 [September, 



Apparently rare in the South of England. Grange, near Man- 

 chester (B, Cooke) ; abundant in a field close to Loch Eannoch 

 (Marshall). 



SuB-Div. 2.— HTDEODEOMICA. 



Section 1 . — Htdeometmna. 



Family 1. — Htbeometridje. 



Genus 1. — Htdrometra, Fab. 



Species 3*. — Htdrometra Cost^. 



Htdrometra Cost^, H. Schf., Wanz. ix., 71, t. 301, fig. 927 (1850) ; 

 Meb., Europ. Hem., 107, 5 (1861). 



Htdrometra RuroscuTELLATA, Costa, Cent. 2, t. 2, fig. 8 (1843), 

 nee. Latr. 



Above blackish-brown, robust, very broad across the region of the 

 middle coxae ; pronotum broadly ferruginous. 



Sead — especially on the sides, with golden hairs, cheek-plates and 

 labrum yellow, rostrum black. Antenna yellow-brown, last joint 

 black, apex of all the others blackish. 



Thorax — Pronotum, anterior portion black, much depressed (except in 

 the middle), sides incrassate ; posterior portion broadly ferruginous, 

 the sides only black, clothed with very fine golden scale-hairs ; 

 posterior angles prominent but obtuse, disc obscurely punctured, 

 sometimes close behind the anterior portion transversely crenate ; 

 the central longitudinal keel on the anterior part yellowish, then 

 black, and posteriorly of the ferruginous colour of the disc ; on 

 the under-curved sides, posterior to the constriction, a ferruginous 

 line extends as far as the posterior angles. Elytra brown ; nerves 

 black with golden scale-hairs, the space between the first inner 

 nerve and the next usually whitish for some distance, the other 

 intervals sometimes yellowish. Winys fuscous, pale at the base, 

 nerves darker. Sternum flat, black, with fine golden hairs, espe- 

 cially on the sides of the mesosternum ; Prosternum yellowish in 

 front of the coxae; Metasternum, in the ^, with a small tubercle ; 

 sheaths of the 2nd pair of coxae very large and projecting; on their 

 underside, and also on that of the 3rd pair, a large ochreous spot. 

 Legs — Ist pair : fidcra yellow, broadly black beneath ; thighs black* 

 with a broad yellow-brown line on the inner side ; tibial yellowish- 

 brown, with a black line on the outside ; tarsi black ; 2nd and 3rd 

 pairs : coxa and fulcra black above, ochreous beneath ; thighs dark 

 brown above ; yellowish-brown beneath ; tibice and tarsi black. 



