NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1871. 67 



may be readily known by the comparatively larger apical 

 joint of its antennae, the straight base of its thorax, the 

 rounded apex of its posterior femora, beneath in both sexes, 

 and its less oblong form. 



52. Phalacrus BRUNiNiPES, Ch. Brisout, Gren. Cat. et 



Mat., &c., 1803, 45 ; D. Sharp, Cat. Brit. Col. ; Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., viii, 83. 



Dr. Sharp records what he supposes to be this species from 

 Chatham and Lymington. I, also, refer to it with some 

 doubt an individual in my own collection from Lee-pit ; and 

 others observed by me among some of Mr. Champion's 

 insects. 



P. hrunnipes is likened by its describer to P. suhstriatus, 

 from which it appears to differ in its lighter-coloured antenns 

 and legs, its more elongate form, the more elongate club of 

 its antennffi, and the more obsolete and punctured striae of its 

 elytra. These differences (except the first) are exhibited 

 tolerably satisfactorily in my insect; which, however, would 

 seem to me more closely allied to P. coi^ruscus, from very 

 small individuals of which its shorter form, the broader and 

 somewhat shorter club of its antennae, and the strise of its 

 elytra being (however delicately) punctured, will serve to 

 distinguish it. 



53. Meligethes pictus (Frontisp., fig. 7), Rye, I. c, 



viii, 74, described. 

 Taken in some numbers by Mr. T. Wilkinson and Mr. R. 

 Lawson, chiefly on Helianthemiim xulgare, near Scar- 

 borough. 



This species is conspicuous from its elytra being each orna- 

 mented on the disc with a more or less sharply defined red 

 stain, varying in size from an oblong streak to a blotch occu- 



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