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elytra; penultimate ventral segment of abdomen deeply emarginate in a 
semicircle, last segment forming a long style which is cleft from base, 
with parallel lobes, which are emarginate on their outer side, and reflexed 
so as to form a hook behind middle ; last dorsal segment membranous, 
not covering the style, dilated at apex and slightly emarginate on its 
apical margin. 
Female with the head scarcely narrower than thorax, which is hardly 
narrower than elytra; last ventral segment of abdomen deeply incised at 
apex almost to middle. 
By beating and sweeping; rare; Tonbridge; Dean Forest; Glossop; Clifton, 
near Manchester; Northumberland and Durham district; Scotland, rare, Solway, 
Tay, and Moray districts. 
M. flavoguttatus, Kies. Fuscous black, shining, with the mouth, 
and the under-side in part, testaceous; head without eyes a little 
narrower than thorax ; antenne in male longer than the body, pitchy 
brown with base a little lighter; thorax unicolorous black or pitchy 
black, broader than long, margined all round, with posterior angles right 
anzles; elytra about two and a half times as long as together broad, 
with the apex sulphureous yellow, rugosely and obsoletely punctured, 
more plainly at apex; legs brownish with femora somewhat darker. 
L. 33-4 mm. 
Male with the head broader than in female, and with the penultimate 
and antepenultimate dorsal segments produced in an acute angle on each 
side; penultimate ventral segment emarginate, last segment produced 
and forming a moderately curved style, which is triangularly emarginate 
at apex, but not split from base as in the two preceding species. 
By beating and sweeping; local; Aylsham; Glanvilles Wootton; Knowle; 
Bewdley ; Salford Priors; Repton; Cheshire; Scotland, Solway, Tay, and Moray 
districts. 
IM. guttifer, Kies. Fuscous black, with the anterior and pos- 
terior margins and sometimes all the margins of thorax yellow; head 
without eyes somewhat narrower than thorax; antenne pitchy with 
base lighter, as long as, or longer than, body in male, shorter in female ; 
thorax broader than long, posterior angles right angles, projecting ; 
elytra broader than thorax, about twice as long as together broad, 
obsoletely punctured rugosely, with distinct traces of raised lines, apex 
sulphureous yellow; epimera and margins of ventral segments of 
abdomen yellow; legs fuscous, with knees, and often apex of tibia and 
base of tarsi, yellowish. L. 3-34 mm. 
Male with the head broader than in female ; thorax a little narrower 
than the elytra; last dorsal segments of abdomen elongate, the pen- 
ultimate somewhat raised at apex, the last deflexed, slightly emarginate 
at apex ; penultimate ventral segment deeply emarginate in a semicircle, 
the last forming a slightly curved style, which is cleft from base, the 
lobes being parallel and acuminate and simple. 
