NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IX 1865. 81 



In a specimen from Cambridge given to me by Mr. Crotch, 

 there is not the least vestige of the additional thoracic punc- 

 tures, and the sub-humeral stria is reduced to three impres- 

 sions; the insect being certainly not capable of separation 

 from H. '[2-striatus. 



29. Epur^a diffusa, Ch. Brisout, in Gren. Cat. Col. Fr. 



Mat. 46; D. Sharp, Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. ii. 85. 

 fuscicollis (Waterh.) Steph. 



Mr. Sharp records this species as British on the authority 

 of two specimens ; one taken by himself at the oozing sap 

 of a recently felled oak, and another obtained from Mr. 

 Brewer. It is also in the collection of Mr. Waterh ouse, 

 who noted its peculiarities many years ago ; and is described 

 (badly) in Stephens' Manual. Since the publication of 

 Mr. Sharp's notice I believe many specimens have been de- 

 tected. 



It is considerably like Ji!. 10-guttata, but only half the 

 size; the spots on the elytra not being nearly so well marked 

 as in that species, and sometimes so confluent as to leave the 

 elytra pale testaceous, with one or two ill defined darker 

 patches of the normal ground-colour. In the male the basal 

 joints of the tarsi are dilated ; and the posterior femora, 

 though stouter than the others, are simple, as are also the 

 hinder tibiae. 



In Mr. Waterhouse's original specimen the elytra are 

 entirely pale, and the thorax is dark. 



30. Epur-EA angustula, Erichs., in Germ. Zeits. f. d. 



Ent. iv. 270, 16; id. Ins. Deutschl. iii. 150, 13; 



Sturm, Deutsch. Ins. xv. 74, 13, T. 296, f. c. C; 



E. C. Rye and D. Sharp, Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. ii. 



p. 50. 

 A single example of this species was taken by Mr. Sharp 

 1866. G 



