158 SERRICORNIA. [Azinotarsus. 
the preceding, but with the elytra rather strongly widened behind, and 
easily distinguished by having the thorax entirely red; head large, dark 
green, antenne black with the under-sides of the joints, to a greater or 
less extent, yellowish; thorax a little narrower than elytra, slightly 
transverse, impressed near posterior angles ; elytra very finely punc- 
tured, alutaceous, dark green with apex yellow; legs dark, anterior tarsi 
brown, L. 3mm. 
Male with the antenne longer and the apex of elytra strongly and 
bluntly reflexed obliquely, with a small black appendage. 
In grassy places; by sweeping; local, but sometimes found in numbers where it 
eccurs; London district, not uncommon, Beckenham, Weybridge, Ripley, Dulwich, 
Richmond, Reigate, Erith, Loughton, Tonbridge, &c.; Hertford ; Brandon, Suffolk ; 
it has also been recorded from Bristol, but appears to be almost entirely confined to 
the London and South-eastern districts. 
ANTHOCOMUS, Erichson. 
The species belonging to this genus much resemble those belonging 
to the preceding, but differ in the insertion of the antenne, and the 
simple anterior tarsi of the male ; they are about thirty in number, and 
are widely distributed, oceurring in Europe, Africa, North, Central and 
South America, &c.; they are small insects, as a rule very brightly and 
prettily coloured, and are found by sweeping flowers and herbage in 
damp or marshy localities; of the seven European species three are 
found in Britain, one of which is referred by Mulsant to his sub-genus 
Carapheles. 
I. Antenne short, feebly serrate; thorax more or less 
dark. 
1. Thorax dark with sides broadly red; elytrared . . A. RUFUS, Herbst. 
(sanguinolentus, F.) 
2. Thorax entirely dark ; elytra dark with red fascia . A. FAscIATUS, LZ. 
II. Antennz longer, filiform; thorax entirely red . . . A. TERMINATUS, én. 
A. rufus, Herbst. (sanguinolentus, F.). Rather elongate and 
parallel-sided, dull, extremely finely and scarcely visibly punctured, 
clothed with very short and fine pubescence; head greenish-black, 
large, antenne rather short, black, serrate ; thorax greenish-black with 
sides rather broadly red, about as broad as elytra, and with the length 
and breadth almost equal, sides gently rounded; scutellum small ; 
elytra dull scarlet, subparallel, very slightly broader at apex ; legs dark. 
L. 33-4 mm. 
Male with the elytra reflexed at apex, and furnished with a small 
black spiniform membranous appendage. 
By sweeping aquatic plants, &c.; almost entirely confined to the fen districts; 
Wicken Fen; Whittlesea Mere; Yaxley Mere; Bexley Mere; Ashwicken; Horning 
Fen; Crymlyn Bog, Swansea; Stephens records it as “rare near London; has been 
taken at Ealing on barley,” but this appears doubtful. 
