o4 len 'Ppteva -[feteroptera. 
behind the iniddle ; seutellum punctured, raised at the base 
with a central carina at the apex; elytra with the corium 
and clavus punctured, a line along the claval suture, and 
oceasionally the nerves, paler, membrane developed, with a 
pale spot at the base; ubdomen bronzy black, legs black, 
clothed with short hairs and longer black bristles, anterior 
femora strongly incrassated, with a strong spine near the 
apex and with several smaller ones on its distal side, 
anterior tibiw curved, very finely crenulate at the base 
beneath. 
L.5 mm, 
In moss, ete. 
Weybridge, Woking, Chobham; Esher, Murshall ; Nor- 
folk, Edwards ; Hastings, Ewhurst, Leith Hill, Butler ; 
Reigate, J. Linnell ; Stoneham, Hants, Addington Hills, 
Douglas and Scott ; Weybridye, Deal, Billups ; Knighton 
Heath, Parley Heath, Land’s End, Dale. 
R. chiragra, lub. (var. sabulicolu, Thoms.) —Rather 
smaller and distinctly narrower than dilatatus, the second 
joint of the antennz, the corium and clayus and the tibiz 
more or less ferruginous, except in the var. nigricornis, 
D. &8., which has the antenne entirely black. Head with 
the antenniferous tubercles and cheeks less prominent than 
in the preceding species, its surface with longer hairs ; 
pronotum longer and less widened posteriorly, its disc 
clothed with long upright hairs; corium ochreous or 
ferruginous, more or less clouded and spotted with black, 
membrane paler than in dilatatus, its base and sometimes a 
spot near the apex pale; legs with the base of the femora, 
the tibiz of the anterior pairs except at the apex, and the 
basal joint of the tarsi ferruginous ; tibiee, especially the in- 
termediate pair, with strong black bristles and fine hairs, 
anterior femora incrassated, with a strong pale spine 
followed on the distal side by several smaller ones, an- 
terior tibiz curved. 
L. 44 mm. 
