240 LONGICORNIA. [Strangalia. 
slightly pubescent, with the scutellum, breast, and elytra black, the 
latter rather finely punctured and clothed with fuscous pubescence ; 
thorax transverse, with the disc convex and impressed on each side with 
a broad fovea ; sometimes the elytra are entirely rufous, and occasionally 
their humeral margin alone is of this colour; the female appears to 
have the base of the antennew and the apex of the tibie and tarsi 
reddish. L. 9-12 mm. 
On flowers; very rare; Colney Hatch Wood, Coombe Wood, Windsor, and Gam- 
linghay, Cambridge (Stephens) ; Darenth Wood and Birch Wood (S. Stevens) ; there 
is one specimen without locality in Dr. Power’s collection. 
S. armata, Herbst. (elongata, De G.; maculata, Poda.; ¢ calcarata, 
F., 2 subspinosa, F.; s.g. Stenura, Dej.). Elongate, clothed with yellow 
pubescence, black, with the antenne and legs variegated with yellow, 
and the elytra light yellow with very variable black markings and 
fascie, which sometimes spread over almost the whole surface, and at 
others leave the greater part of the elytra yellow; the basal fascia is as 
a rule composed of two spots on each elytron, and the second is inter- 
rupted more or less broadly at suture ; head rather long ; thorax longer 
than broad with a tubercle on each side, rather closely, but distinctly 
punctured ; elytra more or less narrowed to apex, shallowly and not 
closely punctured, emarginate and mucronate at apex. L, 11-17 mm. 
Male smaller and more strongly narrowed behind, with the meta- 
sternum furnished in middle with two crests of hairs, and the 
posterior tibie thickened, strongly sinuate behind middle, with the 
sinuation ecrenulate and terminated by a tooth at each extremity. 
Female with the basal segments of the abdomen marked with yellow, 
and the posterior tibie slightly curved at apex. 
On flowers, &c.; common and generally distributed from the Midland counties 
southwards, but rarer further north; Cheshire; Manchester; Northumberland and 
Durham district ; Scotland, extremely rare, Solway district, the only record being 
“Little Ross, Kirkeudbrightshire, Mr. J. T. Syme,’’ Murray’s Cat. Ireland, 
Powerscourt near Dublin. 
S. attenuata, L. Elongate, slender, clothed with yellow pubescence, 
black, with the elytra furnished with four reddish-yellow bands ; 
antenne partially ferruginous ; thorax elongate with the sides a little 
dilated in the middle; elytra strongly narrowed behind; legs yellow, 
with the apex of the posterior tibia and femora, and the tarsi, black, 
the latter with the third joint elongate, and only pubescent beneath at 
apex. L. 10-12 mm. 
Male with the abdomen yellow in the middle, and the fifth segment 
longitudinally impressed, rather strongly emarginate at apex, and pro- 
duced on each side in a tooth. 
Female with the abdomen black, and the fifth segment impressed and 
not strongly emarginate at apex; in this sex the second and third 
segments of the abdomen are occasionally yellow at base. 
