Malachius.| SERRICORNIA. Loz 
M. marginellus, Ol. (¢ bispinosus, Curt.). In size and general 
appearance this species much resembles M. bipustulatus, but may at once 
be known by the shape and colour of the thorax, which is about as long 
as broad and suborbicular, of a bright green or bluish-green colour, with 
the sides rather broadly and very clearly and sharply orange-red ; the 
anterior and intermediate tarsi, especially the former, are reddish, as 
also is the apex of the elytra ; the male characters will also at once 
separate the species ; in this sex the second joint of the antenne is very 
small and simple, and the five following are excavate internally, and 
are produced at apex into a more or less distinct and prominent blunt 
tooth ; the apex of the elytra, moreover, is much reflexed, so that it 
almost appears broken in, and each elytron is furnished near the sutural 
angle with a long sharp spinose tooth, the sutural angle itself being 
also dentate; the forehead and clypeus are swollen. L. 5 mm. 
On flowers, &c. ; very local, but sometimes common where it occurs; Folkestone 
and Whitstable (on flowers of Honkeneya peploides near the coast (Champion)) ; 
Birchington ; Deal; Hastings; Portsmouth district ; Eastbourne ; Devon; Scotland, 
very rare, Solway district (Sharp) ; Stephens records it from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, 
Kent, and Slapton Ley, Devon; its occurrence in Scotland is worthy of note, as it 
seems Otherwise almost confined to the south-eastern coast. 
AXINOTARSUS, Motschulsky. 
The members of this genus were formerly included under Malachius, 
from which they may be known by having the second joint of the 
anterior tarsi in male obliquely produced at apex, and their smaller size; 
there are eight European species, of which two are found in Britain. 
I. Thorax black with side nee br era at red . A. PULICARIUS, Fab. 
Il. Thoraxentirely red . . - « A. RUFIOOLLIS, Ol! 
A. pulicarius, I’, Of an obscure green or blackish-green colour, 
shining, clothed with fine greyish pubescence, elytra with scattered 
coarse upright black hairs; mouth parts yellow, thorax black with the 
sides very broadly and sharply yellow or yellowish-red; head large, 
antennz very long in male, shorter in female, more or less testaceous, “at 
all events on the under-side of the joints ; thorax a little narrower than 
elytra, about as long as broad, suborbicular, impressed at posterior - 
angles, very finely punctured; elytra very obsoletely and finely punc- 
tured with the apex rather broadly yellowish ; legs blackish-green, with 
the anterior tarsi testaceous. L. 3-32 mm. 
Male with the antenne longer, and the elytra deeply and bluntly 
inflexed at apex obliquely. 
By sweeping Umbelliferso, &e.; local and not common; Claygate, Surrey ; 
Wandsworth (Waterhouse) ; Peckham and Walworth (Stephens) ; Charlton in some 
numbers (Lewis). 
A. ruficollis, Ol. (rubricollis, Marsh.). Of about the same size as 
