60 LAMELLICORNIA. [ Gnorimus. 
tubercles on the pygidium of the female are less strongly marked, and 
the intermediate tibie of the male are more strongly curved and 
constricted. L. 14-18 mm. 
On flowers and in orchards, in the rotten wood mould of fruit trees, rare; Dart- 
ford, Kent ; Tonbridge (Horner) ; Devonshire; Stephens records it from Darenth, 
Birch and Coombe Woods, Greenhithe Wood, and Carlisle (Illustr. iii. p. 231), and 
also from Devonshire (Manual, p- 170). 
This and the preceding species appear to have become exceedingly 
scarce of late years; it is quite possible they may occur again; but at 
present they seem to be becoming extinct in Britain. 
TRICHIUS, Fabricius. 
This genus contains at present thirteen species ; like those belonging 
to the preceding genus, they are mostly northern in their range; three 
are found in Europe, and the remainder have been described from 
Northern Asia, North America, and Japan ; one has been found in 
Teneriffe ; our two British species, under various names, appear to range 
right across Europe and Northern Asia, one of them having been found 
in Kamtschatka ; they are of an orange or yellow colour, with dark 
bands, and owing to their velvety appearance and strongly villose 
thorax and abdomen present rather the appearance of a humble-bee than 
a beetle, especially when on the wing. 
I. Average size larger ; abdomen thickly villose at sides . TT, FAascratus, LZ. 
Il. Average size smaller; abdomen bare, or almost bare, 
AUBIGES = \as elect at Sie Pie ee ee I ABDOMEN ATINGEA er: 
T. fasciatus, L. Black, with the head and thorax clothed with 
very strong yellowish pilose pubescence, which is very long and thick ; 
pygidium and breast with the pubescence long, thick, and pilose, but 
lighter ; abdomen more thinly pubescent; elytra of a velvety-looking 
bright orange or yellow colour, with the scutellary region, as a rule, and 
the suture narrowly, a fascia at base usually meeting at scutellum, a 
fascia on middle not meeting at suture, and the apex, black; these 
markings vary in size and extent, but the first yellow band never reaches 
the shoulder ; the apical patch is usually more or less round, raised, and 
shining, the apex of the elytra being raised into a blunt tubercle; head 
rather long, thickly punctured ; clypeus bare in front, emarginate ; 
antenne reddish-brown, with club black; thorax much narrower than 
elytra, rounded at sides, and contracted in front, more finely punctured 
in the male than in the female, the sculpture, however, being hidden 
by the pilose pubescence; scutellum black, pilose and punetured ; 
elytra dull, with scattered vellowish hairs, very feebly sculptured ; 
pygidium finely rugose, with a white spot on each side at base.  L. 
10-13 mm. 
Male with the anterior tarsi with the first joint dilated externally, and 
