NEW BRITISH SPECIES NOTICED IN 1860, 77 



punctures and the short pubescence of the elytra. The legs 

 and antennae are red, the club of the latter pitchy black. 

 Discovered by the Rev. A. Matthews beneath bark of firs 

 near Gumley, Leicestershire, and to whose liberality I am 

 indebted for the species. 



34. DoNAciA CoMARi (Ahr.), Suifrian; E. W. Janson, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. 3 Sept. 1860, Zool. 7221 (I860),- 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. 1 Oct. 1860, Zool. 7269 (1860). 

 Donacia sericea, Ahrens olim, in Xeue Schrift. d. 

 naturf Gesellsch. zu Halle, I. iii. 29, 12 (1810); 

 Kunze, ibid. II. iv. 27 (1818), nee Linn. 

 Donacia Comari {Ahrens in litteris), Suffrian, Ent. 



Zeit. Stett. vii. 84 (1846). 

 Donacia montana, Dahl. in lift. 

 ^ Allied to D. .sericea, L. (profem, Steph.), but readily dis- 

 tinguished by the structure of its antenna and thorax and its 

 parallel elytra. 



In I). Comari the antennas are comparatively short and 

 stout, the third joint but little longer than the second and 

 very little shorter than the fourth, the antei-ior angles of the 

 thorax are rounded and deflexed, and the callus is confounded 

 anterior! V with the maro-in. Fio- 9* 



In Z>. sericea, L., the antennae are long and slender, the 

 third joint is fully half as long again as the second and 

 nearly as much shorter than the fourth; the anterior anc,rles 

 of the thorax are acute and reflexed, and the callus is clearly 

 defined anteriorly. Fio-. 9. 



Discovered by the late James Foxcroft in Perthshire in 

 May, 1854. 



35. Crioceris dodecastigma, Suffr. ; Waterhouse, Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. 6 Aug. 1860, Zool. 7163 (1860). 

 Lema dodecastigma (Ziegler), Suffr. Ent. Zeit. Stett. 



