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On flowers; very rare, and somewhat doubtfully indigenous; Salisbury and 
Southend (Stephens) ; there are one or two other specimens in collections without 
locality. 
S. nigra, L. (s.g. Stenura, Dej.). Elongate, slender, entirely deep 
black, moderately shiny, with the abdomen rufous, the base and rarely 
the apex being more or less black ; upper surface clothed rather sparingly 
with fuscous pubescence, under-side clothed thickly with greyish 
pubescence ; head large, rather strongly punctured, with a fine central 
line, antennez nearly as long as body; thorax longer than broad, much 
narrowed in front, finely and sparingly punctured ; elytra more strongly 
punctured than thorax, the punctuation being somewhat asperate, apex 
shghtly emarginate; in the male the metasternum is bicristate in the 
middle. L. 8-10mm. 
On flowers in woods; local, and not common, although sometimes taken in some 
numbers where it occurs; Darenth Wood, Dulwich, Ripley, Coombe Wood, Ton- 
bridge, Westerham; Shipley, near Horsham; Norfolk; Suffolk; New Forest; 
Devon ; Swansea; Bewdley Forest; it has not apparently been found further north 
than the Midland districts. 
S. melanura, L. (s.g. Stenwra, Dej.). Broader than the preceding 
species, black, clothed with scanty pubescence above, and thick greyish 
pubescence beneath, elytra coloured differently in the sexes ; head and 
thorax thickly and strongly punctured, the latter longer than broad, 
much narrowed in front ; elytra less closely and not so strongly punc- 
tured as thorax, more finely behind, apex slightly emarginate ; legs 
long. L. 6-10 mm. 
Male with the elytra livid testaceous, the apex being broadly, and 
the suture narrowly, black ; fifth ventral segment subtruncate at apex. 
Female with the elytra bright red, the apex and suture being very 
broadly black. 
On flowers ; generally distributed and common from the Midland counties south- 
wards; rarer further north ; Burnt Wood, Staffordshire ; Northumberland aud 
Durham district; not recorded from Scotland. 
GRAMMOPTERA, Serville. 
This genus is sometimes included under Leptura, and one of the 
species, G. tabacicolor, is placed in a separate sub-genus Alosterna by 
Mulsant; the species are distinguished by their parallel, and in most 
cases subcylindrical form, and by having the posterior angles of the 
thorax produced in a spine at apex; they are comparatively small 
insects ; about thirty species are comprised in the genus, which are all 
described from Europe and the Caucasus district, Northern Asia, and 
North America, with the exception of one from Asia Minor, and one 
from Algeria ; all the European species occur in Britain ; they may be 
distinguished as follows :— 
I. Elytra testaceous with suture narrowly black . . . G. TABACICOLOR, De G@. 
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