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or less distinctly black; central furrow scarcely 
mavkedraiibAsey |i) se. 4 sls eee) hese Re ePOMONM SLE p/é 
IV. Elytra unicolorous brownish-red; pubesence 
fuscous . . E. pomoruM, Herbst. 
VY. Elytra brick-red or brownish-red, with apex black. 
i, Apex of elytra only black ; form more acuminate 
behind ; size smaller ey PL ce eee ee 
ii. Apical third of elytra black; form less acuminate 
behind isssizollancerecveti te Lehi. Ney (terse). Gores 
VI. Elytra black, with margins and a longer or shorter 
patch at base and behind scutellum  brownish- 
NUON? Se) Sco serge oy a Gr od soho) oe 0, LL TIS, VG, 
VII. Elytra entirely black. 
i. Form smaller and narrower ; antennz shorter and 
more slender ; interstices of elytra plainly rugose. E, NIG@RINUS, Payk. 
ii, Form larger and broader; antenna longer and 
stouter; interstices of elytra punctured, scarcely 
EUSOSCE tee) se on no ee ee eet ee L eEHLOPS emacs 
E. ELONGATULUS, F'. 
E. BALTEATUS, L. 
E. sanguineus, L. (rujipennis, Steph.). Black, with bright scarlet 
elytra, clothed with black pubescence ; head thickly punctured, antenne 
black, sometimes pitchy brown towards base ; third joint almost double 
as long as second ; thorax about as long as its breadth at base, rather 
strongly and moderately closely punctured on dise, much more thickly 
at margins, depressed at base, with an impressed central line traceable 
throughout ; elytra with distinct punctured striz, interstices distinetly, 
although finely and not closely punctured; legs black, tarsi and apex of 
tibize reddish or pitchy red. L. 10-12 mm. 
Under bark and in decayed wood; very rare; New Forest; also recorded by 
Stephens from the West of Englandand Bagley Wood, Oxon ; according to Krichson 
and Thomson, it is chiefly confined to pine and fir trees (‘‘ Nadelholzern,” Er. ; 
“ Barrskéga,” Thoms. ).* 
E. lythropterus, Germ. (sanguineus, Steph., nee L.; semzruber, 
Steph.). Very closely allied to the preceding, but easily distinguished 
by the colour of the pubescence, which is pale, of a yellowish-red or 
light fuscous colour, and by the fact that the central channel of the 
thorax is only apparent towards base ; the punctuation of the thorax 
appears to vary somewhat in different specimens, but is, on the whole, 
a little closer on dise than in E£. sanguineus, and the thorax itself is a 
little longer proportionally ; in the latter species the strie of the elytra 
are rather strongly marked at base, and one or two, at all events, are 
continued without punctures to base ; in H. lythropterus, however, they 
distinctly cease a little before base, and are not so strongly marked ; 
legs black, with tarsi ferruginous. L. 10-11 mm. 
In decaying oaks and birch; also on the wing, over bracken, &c. ; local, but not 
uncommon in the New Forest, where it has sometimes been taken in numbers; it has 
*It is a pity that we have no exact words in English to express the German 
‘‘Nadelbaume”’ and ‘ Laubbaume” (‘needle trees” and ‘leaf trees’), and the 
Swedish “ Barrtrad” and ‘ Loftrad.” 
