Malthodes. ] SERRICORNIA. 151 
Male with the head broader than in female, and narrowed behind ; 
dorsal segments of abdomen simple and not elongate ; penultimate 
ventral segment deeply emarginate, the last forming a slightly curved 
style, which is not dilated at apex, channelled at base beyond middle, 
and not split or incised. 
By beating young birches, sweeping herbage, &c.; rare in England; Sevenoaks, 
Woking, Caterham, Esher, Tilgate Forest; Yardley near Birmingham, Trench 
Woods, and Rodborough Common (Blatch); near Manchester, rare; Northumber- 
land and Durham district, not common, but widely spread over the district; the 
species is, however, recorded by Dr. Sharp as common in Scotland, in the Solway, 
Tay, Dee, and Moray districts. 
IM. minimus, L. (sanguinolentus, Fall.). This, the commonest of our 
species, is easily known by its bright colouring, the thorax being often 
of a clear reddish-yellow colour, with or without a small dark spot on 
dise; occasionally the greater part of the upper surface is dark, but the 
margins are always distinctly lighter; antenne fuscous, with base 
yellow ; abdomen with margins of segments yellow ; elytra sulphureous 
at apex; the head is finely and closely but distinctly punctured, espe- 
cially on vertex; antenne in male about as long as the body; thorax 
subquadrate, with sides almost straight and not or scarcely margined, 
with all the angles blunt, anterior angles projecting; elytra broader 
than thorax, about two and a half times as long as together broad, with 
the pubescence more marked than in most of the species, especially at 
apex, very finely and rugosely punctured, and somewhat alutaceous; 
legs clear reddish-yellow, with the femora blackish. L. 3-35 mm. 
Male with the head broader than thorax, and constricted slightly 
behind; last dorsal segments simple and not elongate, penultimate 
ventral segment broadly and not deeply emarginate, the last slightly 
narrowed and produced, subovate, divided from base into two broad 
rounded lobes. 
By sweeping herbage, beating shrubs, &c.; usually in somewhat damp places; 
common and generally distributed throughout the kingdom, 
M. fibulatus, Kies. One of the most distinct and easily recognized 
of all our species; of a unicolorous greyish or fuscous black colour, 
with the mandibles, base of antenne, and the anterior and posterior 
margins of thorax narrowly, but distinctly, yellow ; under-side more or 
less yellowish; antenne in male very long, reaching beyond apex of 
body, much shorter in female; thorax about as broad as long, anterior 
angles blunt, slightly projecting, posterior angles almost rounded ; 
elytra about two and a half times as long as together broad, very 
obsoletely and rugosely punctured, darker at base and apex ; legs tes- 
taceous or fusco-testaceous, with the femora darker. L. 23-3 mm. 
Male with the head broader than in female, and strongly narrowed 
behind ; penultimate dorsal segment produced, emarginate at apex, and 
sending out on each side two processes, the apical one spiniform (or 
