112 SERRICORNIA. [ Corymbites. 
sharp and strongly carinate ; scutellum large, closely punctured ; elytra 
with rather fine punctured strize which are deep at base, interstices 
finely punctured and transversely rugose; legs black, with claws, and 
often knees, red. L. 12-16 mm. 
Male narrower than female, with thorax longer in proportion and more 
parallel-sided in front ; antennx longer, strongly pectinate, the processes 
of the joints being twice as long as the joints themselves. 
Female broader, with thorax more convex and rounded in front ; an- 
tenn shorter, strongly serrate. 
By sweeping long grass, &c.; local; not, apparently, found in the London district 
or the south of England; Bewdley Forest ; Knowle and Coleshill, near Birmingham ; 
Malvern Hills; North Wales; banks of Bollin, Cheshire ; Staffordshire ; Langworth 
Wood, Lincoln; Yorkshire; Bowdon, Manchester; Northumberland, Cumberland, 
and Durham district; Scotland, rare, Tweed, Forth, and Arygle districts. 
Cc. cupreus, F. (Ctenicerus cupreus, Latr.). Rather smaller on an 
average than the preceding, to which it bears a strong superficial re- 
semblance as far as structure is concerned ; thorax coppery, greenish, or 
reddish, elytra with apical half or third dark, more or less distinctly 
metallic, usually greenish or coppery, basal portion yellowish-testaceous, 
the testaceous colour extending to middle or considerably beyond middle, 
shoulders with a metallic patch on each; head coarsely punctured, 
antenne black; thorax much as in the preceding species, but more 
closely punctured and duller; elytra with rather fine punctured strie 
which are deep at base, interstices finely punctured and_ transversely 
rugose ; legs black, claws, and often knees, red ; the colour of the upper 
surface is very variable. L. 12-14 mm. 
The sexual differences are much as in the preceding, except that the 
processes of the joints in the pectinate antennze of the male are con- 
siderably shorter, being not much longer than the joints. 
By sweeping, &c.; local; often found in company with the preceding, and like it 
not occurring apparently in the London district or the south of England; there is 
only one record, from Exeter, which may perhaps be a true one, as it occurs in the 
west; Norwich; Dean Forest; Cheltenham; Birmingham district; Llangollen ; 
North Wales, Snowdon, Llanberis, Llyfnant Valley near Glandovey, &c. ; Cannock 
Chase; Church Stretton, Cheshire; Repton; Needwood, Staffordshire ; Langworth 
Wood, Lincoln; Harrogate; Ripon; Teesdale; Isle of Man; Lancashire; North- 
umberland and Durham district; Scotland, common, Solway, Forth, Clyde, Tay, 
Dee, and Moray districts; Ireland, Dublin, Newcastle co. Down, Armagh, Antrim, 
&c., and probably generally distributed. 
V. eruginosus, F. This variety has the upper surface unicolorous, of 
a bright reddish-coppery or violet-coppery colour, shot with green if 
held against the light. 
Occurs with the type, and is not uncommon, 
In this species the female appears as a rule to be much rarer than 
the male, but Stephens records an instance of the capture of a large 
