Pachyta. | LONGICORNIA. 235 
In the male the antenne are longer than in the female, and the 
general size is smaller. 
On flowers of Umbellifere, especially in and near hop-gardens ; local, but usually 
common where it occurs; Darenth Wood, Shooter’s Hill, Tonbridge, Maidstone, 
Bexley, Chatham, &c. ; New Forest ; Devon ; Upton-on-Severn, Malvern ; Bewdley ; 
banks of the Bollin, Cheshire; Manchester district; not recorded from further 
north, 
ANOPLODERA, Mulsant. 
This genus is very closely allied to Leptura, from which, indeed, it 
can hardly be separated ; the chief difference appears to lie in the fact 
that the antenne are longer and that the elytra are more parallel; the 
cheeks are broad, and the neck narrow and constricted ; the thorax is 
pubescent, with the posterior angles not prominent; eleven species have 
been described from North and Central Asia and from Europe; of the 
four European species one is found in Britain ; it is rarely unicolorous 
black, but as a rule may be easily known from all our species of Leptura 
by the large yellow spots on the elytra, which are sometimes more or 
less confluent. 
A. sexguttata, I. (Leptura serguttata, auct.). Elongate and sub- 
parallel, rather depressed, black, under-side and seutellum clothed with 
thick silvery pubescence, upper-side with fine and rather scanty ashy 
pubescence, elytra with three large yellow spots on each placed longi- 
tudinally, the hinder pair of which are sometimes confluent ; occasionally 
these are entirely wanting; head and thorax strongly and closely 
punctured, the latter pilose, rather convex, narrowed in front, with 
posterior angles obtuse, and with an obsolete central channel; elytra 
strongly punctured, with the punctuation much less close than that of 
thorax; legs moderately long. L. 8-11 mm. 
The two posterior spots appear to be usually confluent in the male, in 
which sex the intermediate coxze are armed with a small tooth, and the 
posterior tibize have the interior margin subcarinate behind and ter- 
minated by a single spur, instead of by two as in the female. 
On flowers in woods, and by sweeping grass; rare; Darenth Wood, Kent; New 
Forest ; there appears to be no other British locality known; the entirely black 
variety has been taken by Dr. Power at Darenth, and recently by Mr. Gorham 
in the New Forest. 
LEPTURA, Linné. 
This genus, in its widest sense, includes between two and three 
hundred species; these are chiefly confined to the Northern Hemi- 
sphere ; a few, however, have been described from South America, South 
Africa, &c.; if we take out the genera Anoplodera and Strangalia, 
about thirty species are found in Europe; the genus Leptura proper is 
easily distinguished from Strangalia and Grammoptera by uot having 
