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thence to about a third of the length of the elytra where it stops, the 
second is widely interrupted at base and apex, the third and fourth nearly 
unite at base and quite unite at some distance from apex, and the fifth 
almost encloses the fourth but ceases before base and apex; legs long and 
slender, obscurely testaceous with femora usually darker, tarsi elongate 
and slender, UL. 13-2 mm. 
In moist, damp places by small streams and watercourses; very rare; first dis- 
covered in Britain by the Rev. H. Matthews near Weston on the Green, Oxfordshire, 
who, in company with his brother the Rev. A. Matthews, took a number of specimens 
on small sticks submerged in a narrow rhein or watercourse ; Glanvilles Wootton (Dale 
and Wollaston) ; Scarborough (R. Lawson); Northumberland district “ upon Samolus 
valerandi in a ravine a little to the north of Castle Eden Dene” (Rev. W. Little). 
LYCIDZ., 
The genera belonging to this family are by many authors regarded as 
merely a tribe of the Lampyride, from which they differ by having the 
trochanters not applied to the femora, but in a line with them, and by 
the fact that the intermediate coxe are not contiguous but rather widely 
separated ; the antenne are always more or less serrate, often pectinate ; 
the claws are simple and the abdominal segments are simple in both 
sexes ; many of the species have the elytra much dilated, the insects in 
some cases being almost circular; the colours are often very bright, 
orange or scarlet, and the sculpture is very peculiaf, the elytra being 
often strongly ribbed, with transverse raised lines forming an areolate 
network ; the eyes are larger in the male than in the female, but never 
very large; the antenn are 11-jointed, with the second joint often very 
short, and the tarsi are 5-jointed ; the species are diurnal, and are found 
on the leaves of plants and on flowers; they are carnivorous in their 
habits. : 
The larva of Dictyoptera sanguinea (which was formerly reputed as British) is 
described by Erichson (Wiegm. Arch, vii. p. 93); it is flat and linear, narrowed in 
front and behind, deep black above, and whitish with black spots beneath; the last 
segment is corneous, reddish in colour, and terminates in two projecting bent horny 
processes ; it occurs under bark of oak. 
The greater number of the species which belong to the Lycide are found 
in the tropics; they are poorly represented in Europe by seven genera and 
about twenty species, of which three only occur in Britain ; in general 
appearance and colour these strongly resemble one another, but are now 
referred to three separate genera ; the syuthetic genus Homalisus ought 
perhaps to be removed from the family and regarded, as is done by some 
authors, as a separate family in itself. 
I. Antenne contiguous at base with forehead not or only 
slightly prolonged between them ; sculpture of interstices 
of elytra very distinct. 
i. Ihird joint of antenne plainly longer than second, not 
transverse; elytra with a double series of areolets in 
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