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There is only one European species. 
B. pilosus, Boh. (Minki, Fieb., D. § S.)—Pitchy black 
or brown, legs in the 3 paler, 2 with the head and legs 
red. Head smooth, shining, vertex very wide, and eyes 
small and prominent, basal joint of the antenne in the 
?,and sometimes the second, except at its apex, red ; 
pronotum very rugose and hairy; scutellum deeply im- 
pressed at the base, the sides and apex raised; elytra 
rugosely punctured and hairy, its side margins reflexed, 
membrane dusky; in the brachypterous form the elytra 
are about twice as long as the scutellum; legs pale 
brownish red in the 4, shining and red in the 2 ; in the 
developed 2 before me the tibize are distinctly longer 
than in the undeveloped one; tarsi black. 
L. 6 6mm.; dev. 2 5mm, undev. 2 4mm. 
Very rare. On the hills between Loch Long and Loch 
Lomond, four specimens, Sharp; Cuckmere District, 
Hastings, developed ¢?, Collett; ina sandpit, Guestling, 
near Hastings, two undeveloped specimens, Jvev. LH. 
N. Bloomfield ; Booton Common, Norfolk, by sweeping, 
Hdwards ; Reuter has taken it off Spruce Fir in Finland, 
in August. 
PILOPHORUS, Hahn. 
(Camaronotus, D. 5S.) 
This very distinct genus might be known from any 
other of our British genera by the brown colour and 
transverse silvery bands of its elytra; but besides these 
characters the flattened head posteriorly, which overlaps 
the front margin of the pronotum, the prominent eyes 
which project for nearly their entire width beyond the 
sides of the pronotum, and the slightly curved and 
flattened posterior tibiz distinguish it at once from its 
allies. We have three closely allied British species of the 
seven recorded as Palearctic. 
