118 SERRICORNIA. [Dascillus. 
and is rounded in a semicircle and terminated by two points ; this 
larva appears to live underground at the roots of plants, especially 
Orchidacee, 
D. cervinus, L. (cinereus, F.). Elongate oblong-oval, convex, 
completely clothed with very thick and fine greyish pubescence, and 
very thickly and finely punctured; head moderately large, depressed 
between eyes, antennz long, filiform, with the first and second joints 
short, and the third joint very long ; thorax broader than long, narrowed 
in front, with sides slightly rounded, base feebly sinuate, posterior 
angles almost right angles; scutellum semicircular or slightly eordiform ; 
elytra broader than thorax, subparallel, rounded at apex, with irregular 
rows of larger punctures and traces of raised lines ; legs rather long and 
stout, tarsi broad, tibiz with distinct spurs. L. 8-10 mm. 
Male smaller and narrower, with the thorax less convex and the elytra 
more acuminate at apex, and the legs shorter, with stronger tibial spurs ; 
the last ventral segment also is subacuminate ; this sex may easily be 
known by its colour, which is unicolorous black or dark pitchy brown, 
with the apex of abdomen lighter; the female is broader than the male, 
and usually has the head and thorax brown, and the under-side black 
brown, and the elytra, apex of abdomen, antenne, and legs more or less 
obscurely testaceous ; rarely the female is coloured as the male. 
On flowers, especially Umbellifere, also on alders, brambles, &c.; local, and in 
some chalky districts not uncommon; London district, Chatham, Box Hill, Leith, 
Hill, Croydon, Mickleham, Caterham ; Dover; Brighton, on thistles; Devonshire, 
Drewsteignton, Dartmoor, Barnstaple; Dean Forest; Swansea; Llangollen; Bar- 
mouth; Llanberis ; Matlock; Scarborough ; Northumberland and Durham district ; 
Scotland, local, in old pasture lands, Solway, Clyde, 'Tay, Dee, and Moray districts ; 
Ireland, near Belfast, and Carlingford Mountain on heather (Johnson). 
CYPHONINA. 
This tribe contains about twenty genera, which are found in almost 
all parts of the world ; they are, as a rule, very fragile and_ soft-bodied 
insects, and have very little in common with the Dascillina as far as 
outward appearance is concerned ; with the exception of Hucznetus all 
the European genera are represented in Britain ; they may be divided 
as follows :— 
I. Prosternum indistinct before and between the coxe ; 
penultimate joint of tarsi bilobed; elytra without 
engraved lines. 
i. Posterior legs not formed for leaping ; tibial spurs 
small or obsolete. 
1. Mandibles curved and acuminate; punctuation 
distinct, more or less coarse. 
A. Antenne filiform in both sexes. 
a. Antennzo with the third joint very small, 
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b, Antenne with the third joint larger, not 
transverse, 
