90 SERRICORNIA, [ Eater. 
also been recorded from Highgate and Coombe Woods, Salisbury, Windsor, Bar- 
mouth, and Crymlyn Bog, Swansea; it may be found in early spring by breaking 
open the dead and decaying branches that have fallen from the oaks, &c., in the 
winter, or in dead trunks lying on the ground ; the insect is often found at some dis- 
tance from the surface of the wood, and the small logs aud boughs require to be 
carefully split open and examined. * 
E. coccinatus, Rye. This insect, according to Mr. Rye, who 
separated the species, differs from all the other species with scarlet 
elytra through its narrow parallel shape, long, parallel, duller and 
densely punctured thorax, and the slight striz and flat interstices of its 
elytra ; the pubescence of the upper surface is brownish. Mr. Rye 
remarks that it most closely resembles the immaculate form of LH. 
sanguinolentus, but may be readily separated from that insect by its 
longer antenne, longer, duller and posteriorly canaliculated thorax, &c. 
L. 11-12 mm. 
In oaks, &e.; very rare ; Kensington Gardens and Windsor Forest (Rye) ; Sher- 
wood Forest (Blatch); it appears to be doubtful whether it has occurred in the New 
Forest; it has been taken in oaks in France in the Forest of Fontainebleau by M. 
Bedel and M. Grouvelle. 
E. sanguinolentus, Schr. (coccineus, Schiddte ; ephippium, Ol. 
Black, with scarlet elytra, which are almost always furnished with a 
long common black spot, but are occasionally immaculate ; pubescence 
greyish or greyish-yellow; the form is a little narrower and more 
parallel than in E. sanguineus or lythropterus ; immaculate specimens, 
as a rule, have the suture narrowly black in the middle, but they may 
further be distinguished from the two species just mentioned by their 
shorter and more convex thorax, which is more plainly sinuate before 
posterior angles, and presents scarcely a trace of a central furrow even 
at base, and further by the fact that the pubescence on the head consists 
of pale and black hairs intermingled, L. 8-11 mm, 
At the roots of heath; on nettle flowers; by beating trees, &c.; local, and usu- 
ally rare; Darenth Wood, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Epping Forest ; New Forest ; 
Salisbury; Christchurch ; Oxford ; Bewdley Forest. 
E. pomone, Steph. Very closely allied to H. lythropterus, from 
which it differs by the pubescence being black (sometimes dark fuscous 
on elytra), and by haying the extreme apex of the elytra blackish ; 
from HE. sanguineus it may be distinguished by the latter character, and 
also by the absence of a central furrow on thorax, which is scarcely, if 
at all, traceable even at base ; from the immaculate form of /. san- 
quinolentus it may also be known by having the thorax rather less con- 
vex, the joints of the antenne slightly longer, and the elytra a little 
flatter. L. 9-11 mm. 
* The only Scotch record for this species, *f Raehills, in decayed birch trees during 
winter; very rare, Rev. W. Little,” is considered by Dr. Sharp to be probably erro- 
neous, the species referred to being possibly L. pomorum. 
