Rhagonyeha. | SERRICORNIA, 148 
lines; legs clear reddish-yellow, external claw armed with a tooth at 
base ; under-side reddish or dusky, with apex, sides, and margins of 
segments more or less red. LL. 10-11 mm. 
Male with jomts 5-10 with a small impressed line at base, third 
joint double as long as second. 
Female with the antenne simple, and the third joint one and a half 
times as long as second. 
On flowers and by sweeping long grass in woods; rare; Darenth Wood, Seven- 
oaks, Ripley, Maidstone; Shipley, near Horsham; Guestling, near Hastings; 
Devon; Llangollen; Bewdley; Cannock Chase; Bretby Wood, near Repton; 
Ripon; Marple, Cheshire; Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, very 
rare, in woods, Solway district. 
R. fuscicornis, Ol. (v. Maerkelii, Kies.). Head, apex of elytra, 
and chief part of under-side black, thorax reddish-testaceous, elytra, 
except apex, testaceous or brownish-testaceous ; head finely punctured, 
antenne fuscous, with base usually somewhat lighter ; thorax quadran- 
gular, subtransverse, with anterior angles obtuse, and posterior angles 
well marked ; scutellum rather large, fuscous; elytra clothed with long 
and scanty yellowish pubescence, with coarse and shallow rugose 
sculpture ; legs yellow, with tarsi sometimes slightly fuscous; pro- 
sternum and apex of abdomen testaceous. L. 6-7 mm. 
Antenne longer in male than in female, and elytra widened behind 
in the latter sex. 
By beating hawthorn-flowers, sweeping, &c. ; not uncommon and rather generally 
distributed from the Midlands southwards; rarer further north; Northumberland 
and Durham district, rare; it has not, apparently, been hitherto found in Scotland. 
R. fulva, Scop. (melanura, Ol.). Head and thorax clear red, elytra 
of a deep reddish-testaceous colour with the apex rather broadly black, 
under-side red or more or less dark; head finely punctured, antenne 
long, black with red base; thorax longer thau broad, narrowed in front, 
uneven, depressed in middle; scutellum red; elytra with rather long 
pubescence, rugosely sculptured, with traces of raised lines ; legs clear 
red, tarsi black with red claws. . 6-8 mm. 
Male with the head broader and the eyes more prominent than in 
female ; the thorax also is longer than in the latter sex. 
On flowers, especially Umbelliferze ; extremely common in late summer and early 
autumn; the most abundant of all our species. 
R. testacea, L. This and the following are the smallest of our 
species; head and under-side black; thorax black with side margins 
broadly testaceous; antenne fuscous with base more or less broadly 
yellowish ; elytra and legs entirely yellow-testaceous ; head very closely 
punctured, thorax transverse broader than long or subquadrate; 
scutellum dark; elytra with long pubescence and with shallow rugose 
sculpture and traces of raised lines, broader behind in female than in 
male. L. 4-5 mm. 
Male with the penultimate ventral segment broadly emarginate at 
