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Very rare; New Forest (Turner); Stephens records it from Darenth Wood and 
Barmouth. 
E. pomorum, Herbst. ( ferrugatus, Lac. ; crocatus, Steph., nec Lae. ; 
ochropterus, Hsch.). Black, with the elytra of a dark brownish-red 
colour, sometimes lighter at extreme base, clothed with fuscous pubes- 
cence ; head thickly and distinctly punctured, antenne black with 
second and third joints lighter or darker pitchy, third joint longer than 
second, but plainly shorter than fourth; thorax about as long as broad 
at base, distinctly but not very closely punctured on disc, more closely 
at sides, depressed at base, with central furrow absent or only indicated 
at base ; elytra with tle pubescence rather lighter than on thorax, with 
distinct punctured striz, interstices somewhat convex, punctured; legs 
black, tarsi pitchy red. L. 8-10 mm. 
Under bark and in decayed branches of deciduous trees; very iocal; Dean Forest 
in considerable numbers (Hodgson); Cannock Chase (Blatch); Sherwood Forest in 
oaks, &c. (Blatch, Turner, and others); Scotland, very rare, Tay and Dee dis- 
tricts; Ireland, one specimen in a birch tree at Churchill, co. Armagh (Rev. W. 
Johnson). 
EH. elongatulus, F. (preustus, Steph.). The smallest of our species 
with red elytra; black, with the elytra brick-red except apex which is 
distinctly black, upper surface clothed with blackish or fuscous pubes- 
cence; antenne black, with the second and third joints pitechy brown 
or pitchy red, third joint hardly longer than second and very much 
shorter than fourth ; thorax somewhat longer than broad, rather sparingly 
punctured on disc, more closely at sides, pubescence blackish, depressed 
at base, with central furrow absent or scarcely traceable at base ; elytra 
acuminate behind, with deep punctured striz, interstices punctured 
and clothed with dark hairs; legs black, tarsi pitchy reddish. L. 6— 
7 mm. 
In decaying oaks; rare; Darenth Wood (Power); New Forest; Shirley Warren, 
Southampton (Gore); Nuthurst, Sussex (Stephens). 
E. balteatus, L. Black, elytra red with the apical third black, 
upper surface clothed with fine greyish pubeseence; head closely 
punctured, antenne with the third joint longer than second and not 
much shorter than fourth; thorax longer than broad, feebly narrowed 
in front, rather thickly and finely punctured; elytra subparallel to 
posterior third and thence very gradually narrowed to apex, with 
punctured striz, interstices slightly convex and rather thickly and 
distinctly punctured ; legs black, tarsi pitchy red. L. 7-8 mm, 
By beating birches, &c.; occasionally in rotten wood of oak and birch, where it 
passes its earlier stages ; local, but not uncommon in many localities, and sometimes 
abundant where it oceurs; Darenth Wood, Bireh Wood, Shooter’s Hill, Richmond 
Park, Coombe Wood, Forest Hill, Esher, Mickleham, Weybridge, Leith Hill; Abbey 
Wood ; Devon; Barmouth ; Bewdley Forest ; Sutton Park, Birmingham ; Cannock 
Chase; Chartley Moss, Staffordshire; Windsor; Lincoln; York; Ripon; Scar- 
