302 Flenuptera Fleteroptera. 
black hairs; head black, a transverse spot on the vertex 
and a longitudinal spot on the face, sometimes united, yellow; 
antenn black, second joint sometimes paler, in the ¢ much 
thicker, in the ? scarcely thicker than the third, nearly 
as long as the third and fourth together; pronotum 
greenish-brown, callosities black, dorsal line pale, sides 
nearly straight; scutellum with the dorsal line and a spot 
on each side often pale, and often with a black transverse 
line near the base; elytra brownish, the margins, nerves, 
and sutures paler, membrane dark, the nervures pale whitish ; 
legs brownish, femora spotted with black towards the apex, 
tibize at the extreme apex and the tarsi black. 
L. 4-4} mm. 
On LHieracium Pilosella, Chobham; Darenth Wood, 
Billups; (Knighton Heath, Dale; Bewdley Forest, on 
Tieracium Blatch; Boxley Hills, Kent, Marshall ; Lang- 
stone Point Dawlish, among Anthyllis and Ononis, Parfitt ; 
Reigate. 
MACROCOLEUS, Ficb. 
(Tinicephalus, Fieb.) 
Under this genus I have included Macrocoleus and Tint- 
cephalus, which Dr, Reuter maintains as distinct. They 
differ mainly in the form of the xyphus. Only one of our 
species, hurtulanus, belongs to Tinicephalus, and I think it 
is better to treat the latter as a subgenus of Macrocoleus. 
The genus, as thus considered, may be known from its con- 
geners by its long claws, oval shape, and the form of the 
posterior tarsi, the second joint of which is longer than the 
third, the lateral margins of the pronotum are not acute, 
and in our British species the rostrum reaches to about the 
posterior cox; all the tibize have black spines. We have 
three species of the nineteen recorded by Puton. 
(4) 1. Xyphus concave, acutely margined, surface 
clothed with black and paler hairs inter- 
mixed, or with black only. (Subg. Macro- 
coleus.) 
