114 COLEOPTERA. 



91. Leptura rufa, (Dej.) Brulle, Expedit. de Moree, iii. 



265, pi. 43, f. 6 (1832) ; Muls. Longic. de France, 

 269 (1840) ; D. Sharp, Ent. Monthly Mag. vol. ii. 

 p. 157. 

 V, trkignata, Fairm. 

 Mr. Sharp records the capture by Mr. Thorncroft, during 

 the past summer, at Holme Bush, Sussex, of a single male 

 example of this species (now in his own Collection), which 

 appears to be rare, occurring in the South of France, Spain, 

 Turkey and Greece. 



It is next to L. scutellata, and about the same size, with 

 the head, thorax and antennae black (the first joint of the 

 latter sometimes red), and elytra brownish-red, punctured 

 coarsely at the base, and finely at the apex. The underside 

 is covered with ashy pubescence j the abdomen being more 

 or less red tov/ards the tip. 



92. Cryptocepkalus 10-punctatus, Linn. Syst. Nat.; 



Faun. Suec. 560 ; Gyll. Faun. Suec. iii. 619, 15 ; 



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



ii. p. 52. 

 A considerable number of this most elegant and variable 

 species (Frontisp.) were taken in June last, by Mr. Sharp, 

 Mr. Hislop and myself, on the dwarf sallow, near Camach- 

 gouran. Loch Rannoch. 



It is rather larger than C. morcsi ; the type form (appa- 

 rently represented only by females) being black, with the five 

 basal joints of the antennae, the legs (except a black spot on 

 the femora), the mouth, a heart-shaped mark on the head, 

 the anterior margin, and a medial posteriorly dilated blotch 

 on the thorax, orange-yellow ; and the elytra yeliowisli-white, 

 Vvith five large, rounded, black spots upon each (Fig. 5). The 



