142 SERRICORNIA. [ Telephorus. 
base yellow, or yellowish with apex gradually darker; thorax bright 
reddish-yellow, with anterior angles rounded, and posterior angles rather 
marked; seutellum reddish-yellow; elytra black, rather coarsely and 
rugosely sculptured ; under-side reddish-yellow, breast sometimes more 
or less dark; legs clear reddish-yellow, with tarsi somewhat darker, 
external claw armed with a sharp tooth at base. L. 5 mm. 
By sweeping long grass and flowers; very local; Sydenham, Notting Hill, 
Belvedere, Aylsham, Tonbridge; Shipley, near Horsham; Southend; Pegwell Bay ; 
Hastings; Dover; Glanvilles Wootton; Swansea; Dunham Park, Manchester ; 
Repton, Burton-on-Trent (where I once found the species abundantly in an osier bed 
at the bottom of the village, but I have never met with it in any other locality, nor 
does Mr. Blatch record it from the Midlands); York; Cumberland; Scotland, very 
local, Solway district, found in numbers near Dumfries by Mr. Lennon, but hes not 
occurred in any other place; the distribution of the insect is very peculiar. 
RHAGONYCHA, Eschscholtz. 
This genus is distinguished from T'elephorus by having the tarsal 
claws apparently bifid, the tibia more slender and straighter, and the 
tibial spurs, much less distinct; there are fifty-three European species, 
of which seven are British. 
I. Length 10-11 mm.; thorax reddish-yellow, elytra 
unicolorous testaceous . . . -.--.. + + « 
II. Length 4-8 mm. 
i. Thorax yellowish-red, unicolorous; elytra red or 
yellowish-testaceous, with apex black. 
1. Head black ; elytra yellowish-testaceous . . . . R. FUSCICORNIS, O/. 
2. Head and elytra red . ee SUA Se. oeUivasiseap: 
ii. Thorax black with sides more or less broadly 
R. UNIcoLOR, Curt. 
yellowish. 
1. Femora entirely yellow. . . . . - - ~~ =. . R.TESTACEA, L. 
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iii. Thorax unicolorous black. 
1. Elytra yellow-testaceous . . . .. . =. . ~~ R, Patiipa, F&F. 
2. Blytra black 2 « gps ss 2 » = * & + » B.BRONGATA, Hall; 
R. unicolor, Curt. (translucidus, Brit. Cat.; pilosa, Steph., Er., 
nec Payk.). A large and conspicuous species, which may be known 
from other species with a red thorax by its very prominent eyes, and 
the strong contraction of the head behind eyes; the British specimens 
that I have seen all have the upper side of a unicolorous reddish 
testaceous colour, with the head and thorax redder than the elytra, but 
occasionally the elytra appear to be dusky, especially about scutellum ; 
the upper surface, especially of the elytra, is clothed with rather long 
yellowish pubescence; head with a depression between eyes, which are 
very large and prominent, antenne very long, especially in male ; thorax 
longer than broad, and somewhat contracted in front (in this respect, 
however, the insect appears to be somewhat variable, as I have one 
specimen, a female, in which the thorax is subtransverse with sides 
subparallel) ; elytra long, rugosely punctured, with traces of raised 
