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A. fasciatus, L. Entirely black or greenish-black, with a broad 
fascia on each before middle, which does not reach suture, and the apex 
red; the base of the antenne on its under-side and the knees of the 
anterior legs are also more or less plainly testaceous; the head with 
eyes is about as broad as the thorax, which is about as broad as long 
and a little narrower than the elytra; the antenne are short, and as in 
the preceding species, feebly serrate ; the elytra are slightly widened 
behind; the general punctuation and pubescence is extremely fine. 
L, 3-33 mm. 
Male with the elytra reflexed at apex, and furnished with a small 
black reflexed lobe, which is bent backwards, and is spinose at its inner 
angle. 
Grassy places; by sweeping ; occasionally by beating sallows, willows, &c. ; somes 
what local, but rather common in many localities. London district, generally dis- 
tributed ; Hertford ; New Forest; Glanvilles Wootton; Devon; Swansea; Bewdley ; 
Tewkesbury ; Hereford; Repton (rare); Hale and banks of Bollin, Cheshire; it has 
not, apparently, been recorded from the Northumberland and Durham district, or 
from Scotland or Ireland. 
A. terminatus, Mén. (festivus, F.; ruficollis, F., nee Ol.; Cara- 
pheles terminatus, Muls.). This species differs considerably from the 
two preceding by its shorter form and longer and more filiform antenne ; 
it has by some been confused with Axinotarsus rujftcollis, Ol., from 
which it may be at once known by its dull appearance and the fact that 
the tibie and tarsi are of a clear reddish-yellow colour with the 
onychium and claws only darker; the punctuation and pubescence are 
extremely fine; the head is rather large, and the antenne moderately 
long, with the first joint partly, and the second and third entirely, 
testaceous, and the rest of a lighter or darker brownish colour ; the 
thorax is a little narrower than the elytra, scarcely transverse; the 
elytra are widened behind, dark green with the apex reddish-yellow, 
the colour sometimes covering the apical third; the femora are dark, 
L. 3 mm. 
Male with the elytra reflexed at apex and appendiculate ; female 
apterous. 
By sweeping, &c.; apparently very rare; I know of no recent captures, and the 
specimens I have seen are mostly from old collections; Stephens records it from 
Whittlesea Mere, and it has also occurred at Mickleham, Monks Wood, and Horning 
Fen, Norfolk. 
DASYTINA. 
In this tribe the species are not furnished with lateral vesicles, and 
have the antenne usually plainly serrate and inserted on the sides 
of the head before the eyes; the tarsal claws are with or with- 
out membranous appendages, and the sixth ventral segment of the 
abdomen is sometimes indistinct ; the genus Byturus is, in some points, 
closely connected with this tribe, and has, in fact, by some authors 
