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appears to be rather bright reddish-testaceous, with the head dark, and 
the antenne dark with the base lighter; the legs are testaceous. L. 
2-25 mm. 
A northern species; rare; Scotland, Solway, Tay, and Dee districts; it is very 
probable that the specimens referred to by Bold (Catalogue of the Insects of Northum- 
berland and Durham, page 75) as C. nigriceps belong to this species. 
C. pallidulus, Boh. (ochraceus, Steph.). A small, oval, shining, 
entirely testaceous species, with the eyes black, and the antenne 
towards apex and the elytra at sides sometimes slightly darker; the form 
is shorter, more convex, and rather broader in proportion than in 
C. variabilis, the elytra are rather more strongly and less thickly 
punctured, and the pubescence is more scanty ; from C. punctipennis it 
may be known by its smaller and more oval form and more closely and 
less strongly punctured elytra. L. 1; mm. 
Marshy places, by sweeping grass, &ec.; local; London district, rather common, 
Lee, Chatham, Esher, Wimbledon, Reigate, Leith Hill, Sheerness, Rusper, Tonbridge ; 
Wicken Fen ; New Forest; Devon (recorded as very rare on mountain ash at Haldon) ; 
Knowle; Cannock Chase; Bewdley; Repton; Northumberland district, rare, Long 
Benton, Gosforth, &c.; Scotland, local, Solway, Tay, Dee, and probably other 
districts. 
C. padi, L. (discolor, Panz.; pygmaeus, Payk.). The smallest of our 
species, which may at once be known by its size and colour; oval, 
moderately convex, somewhat depressed on disc, clothed with rather 
thick and strong greyish pubescence ; head and thorax dark, antenne 
rather short, dark with base lighter; elytra varying from entirely dark 
with apex lighter to testaceous with suture and sides dark; legs tes- 
taceous, with femora usually darker; the elytra are very closely, but 
rather strongly punctured, the punctuation, as in fact is the case in all 
the species, becoming finer and more or less obsolete at apex. L. 
13-15 mm. 
Marshy places, by sweeping grass, &c. ; also in moss and flood refuse ; somewhat 
local, but generally distributed throughout the kingdom; Bold records it as not 
common in the Northumberland and Durham district, but Dr. Sharp mentions it as 
being common in Scotland; it appears to be very local, however, in the Midlands, 
as far as my experience goes, 
PRIONOCYPHON, Redtenbacher. 
This genus contains one European and two North American species: 
the former is found very rarely in Britain, and may be known from all 
our other Cyphonide by having the antenne in male serrate from the 
fourth joint; the third joint is very small, scarcely visible, and the first 
is much dilated; the posterior tarsi have the first joint elongate, 
scarcely shorter than the remaining joints together. 
P. serricornis, Mill. (chrysomeloides, Steph.). Of an almost 
