44 HETEROMERA. [Abdera. 
is brownish-black or brownish, but varies, and is sometimes testaceous 
brown ; a patch near apex and a common band before middle are 
obscurely testaceous and lighter than the rest of the elytra, but are often 
more or less obsolete; legs brownish or reddish-testaceous with the 
femora darker. L. 2-2? mm. : 
Under bark of decayed trees; rare; it has hitherto only been found in S:otlaud 
in the Dee and Moray districts; Mr. Champion has taken it in some numbers at , 
Aviemore. 
A. flexuosa, Payk. Elongate, less parallel than. the preceding 
species, dull, very finely and subrugosely punctured, clothed with fine 
silky pubescence, of a bright reddish-yellow colour with a broader or 
narrower band across disc of thorax, and two common waved bands across 
elytra (of which the front one is the narrower) black; head black, 
antenne rather long and moderately stout, dark, with base and apex 
yellow; thorax shghtly transverse, narrowed in front, with a slight 
central channel and a small fovea on each side at base; elytra about as 
broad at base as base of thorax, with sides slightly rounded; legs yellow, 
or reddish-yellow. L. 3-33 mm. 
In boleti, especially on alders and sometimes willows; very local and, asa rule, 
rare; Cambridge and Peterborough (Stephens) ; Hampshire (Moncrieff); Scar- 
horough (Lawson); Teesdale (Blatch) ; Northumberlandand Durham district, ‘* In 
Polyporus radiatus growing on alder, near Wooler,” Mr. T. Hardy ; Scotland, in 
P. radiatus on alder, rare, Solway, Tay,and Moray districts ; it occasionally occurs in 
numbers when found. 
PHL@OTRYA, Stephens. (Dircea, F., sec. auct.) 
Three species are contained in this genus, two of which occur in 
{urope,* and one has been described from Brazil; our single British 
species is a long and rather a large insect, although it varies considerably 
in size; the maxillary palpi are somewhat serrate, with the last joint 
elongate-securiform ; the antenne are filiform, with the third joint quite 
twice as long as the second, which is short ; the prosternum is very short 
before the anterior coxe; the thorax is longer than broad, with the 
front produced and rounded, and the elytra are elongate; the inter- 
mediate coxa are not contiguous ; the legs are slender with small, but 
distinct, tibial spurs, and the penultimate joint of the tarsi is bilobed. 
The larva of P. rufipes is described by Westwood (Classification, i. p. 307); it is 
whitish, elongate, and scaly, convex and thickest at the middle and tail ; the head is 
semiglobose, with short 3-jointed antennz ; anterior legs large, posterior pairs much 
smaller ; last segment furuished with two sharp horny appendages, curved upwards ; 
this larva bores into the solid wood of old oak, in which the periect insect is also 
found. 
P. rufipes, Gyll.  (Stephensi, Duv.; tenuis, Hampe; Dircea 
* I'he second European species, P. Vaudoueri, Muls., appears to be considered by 
some authors as synonymous with P. rufipes. 
