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M. tenella, Ze!t.— like coleoptrata in general appear- 
ance, but at once distinguishable by the shape of the 
pronotum, which has its sides subparallel compared with 
those of coleoptrata, the lateral margins being dilated 
in front, and reflexed, the narrow apical collar lying 
between the produced dilated angles; the pronotum is 
shorter, and the transverse impression deeper. 
9 head more or less red; antenns with the first and 
second joints, except the apex of the latter, red, second 
joint nearly one-third shorter than the fourth; pronotum 
transverse, its sides nearly parallel, reflexed; disc with a 
transverse callosity in front of the middle with a deep 
channel behind it; elytra very short and rudimentary, 
only extending on to the first abdominal segment, truncate 
posteriorly ; abdomen round, convex, slightly shining, 
punctured and clothed with pale hairs ; legs testaceous. 
L.¢2mm.; ? 14 mm. 
Woking, Southwold; Esher, Champion, 
M. distinguenda, feut.—Closely allied to the pre- 
ceding, but the d differing in having the anterior angles of 
the pronotum simple, not dilated as in tenella, and not 
constricted into a collar as in coleoptrata; the transverse 
discal impression also is much less marked than in tenella, 
and there is no impression at the base of the pronotum ; 
scutellum and elytra more densely pilose than in tenella. 
? very like tenella, but at once known by the longer 
antenne, the second and fourth joints of which are sub- 
equal, the dull pronotum with simple unreflexed sides, and 
by the more closely punctured and more pilose abdomen. 
L.¢2mm.; ? 14 mm. 
Busbridge, Surrey, on old lichen-covered larches, July, 
1890; Esher, Champion. 
CAPSIDZ. 
Of this very extensive family we have nearly sixty 
genera, and nearly 170 species. There is probably no 
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