242 LONGICORNIA. [ Grammoptera. 
II. Elytra black or pitehy black. 
i. Legs more or less black; pubescence grey. 
1. Antennz entirely black. . . G. anatis, Panz. 
2. Antennz with the first two joints clear reddish, 
and the rest reddish with the apex black. . . . G. RUFICORNIs, F. 
ii. Legs light reddish-testaceous, with the tibiz more 
or less pitchy ; pubescence yellow, scanty at apex, 
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G. tabacicolor, De G. (levis, F.; s.g. Alosterna, Muls.; Leptura 
chrysomeloides, Schrank., H. 8. W.). Elongate, narrow, linear, black 
with the elytra livid testaceous, the apex and suture being narrowly 
black ; under-side with thick silvery pubescence ; head large, antennz 
black with base reddish ; thorax longer than broad, very closely pune- 
tured, with rather thick and fine greyish-yellow pubescence ; elytra 
somewhat strongly and not closely punctured, with rather coarse 
yellowish pubescence ; legs yellow, with the tarsi and sometimes apex of 
posterior femora black. L. 6-8 mm. 
Male with the elytra very slightly narrowed to apex, and with the 
antennee a little longer than in female, in which latter sex the elytra 
are quite parallel. 
On flowers, &c.; in woods and hedges; not uncommon, and generally distributed 
in the London district and the South, and found in many Midland localities ; rarer 
further north; Lincoln; York; Northumberland and Durham district; Scotland, 
very rare, Tweed and Forth districts; ‘‘ Peasedean, Berwickshire, and Midealder,” 
Murray’s Cat. Ireland, near Dublin and Belfast. 
G. analis, Panz. (abdominalis, Steph. ; variegata, Germ. ; femorata, 
Muls.). Elongate, linear, parallel-sided, black, clothed with somewhat 
scanty ashy pubescence above, and thick silvery pubescence beneath ; 
head large, antenne entirely black; thorax rather longer than broad, 
very closely and finely punctured; elytra a little broader in proportion 
than in the following species, with close and rather strong and somewhat 
asperate punctuation, pubescence almost wanting at apex, which thus 
appears darker; apical segments of abdomen more or less rufous ; legs 
black, femora with base red. L. 7-9 mm. 
On flowers and oak trees, &e.; rare; Darenth Wood (Stephens) ; Westerham, 
Kent (Gorham) ; Belvedere (Wood); New Forest (Stevens, Champion, Power, and 
others); I have taken it at Matlock in the Lovers’ Walks at the beginning of 
June. 
G. ruficornis, F. Smaller than the preceding, which it much 
resembles in general appearance, black, clothed with ashy pubescence, 
which is scanty above, and thick and silvery beneath ; antenne with 
the two basal joints red, and the remainder red at base and black at 
apex ; thorax longer than broad, very closely punctured ; elytra closely 
and rather coarsely punctured ; ‘legs red with the tarsi and the posterior 
tibie black, and the femora all more or less dark at apex; in some 
