62 HETSROMERA. [ "schnomera:- 
punctured, antenne long, dark, with the under-side of the first two joints 
yellow, base of palpi yellow; thorax about as long as broad, slightly 
cordiform, with sides rounded and widened before middle, and contracted 
behind, closely punctured towards base, less closely in front ; scutellum 
impressed ; elytra very closely and somewhat rugosely punctured, with 
three entire raised lines on each. L. 7-8 mm, 
Male with the last joint of the maxillary palpi longer and the 
pygidium more elongate than in female. 
In rotten wood of ivy, willow, elm, &c.; occasionally by sweeping herbage ; I have 
found it on a road and about an old wall; local, and rather scarce, but somewhat 
widely distributed; London district, not uncommon, Hammersmith, Greenwich, 
Darenth Wood, Belvedere, Faversham, Esber, Richmond, Sheerness, Chatham, Whit- 
stable ; Norfolk; Suffolk ; New Forest (in numbers) ; Glanvilles Wootton; Whitsand 
Bay, Plymouth ; Fordlands, Devon, on Uinbellifere ; Swansea; Leamington ; Repton, 
Burton-on-Trent (one or two specimens) ; I know of no locality further north, 
I. sanguinicollis, Ff. More elongate and duller than the preceding, 
from which it may be at once distinguished by the colour of the thorax, 
which is bright reddish-testaceous ; antennz dark or partly ferruginous, 
with the under-side of the basal joints reddish-yellow ; thorax subcordi- 
form, with strong impressions, closely punctured, dilated a little before 
middle and narrowed behind; scutellum rather large, very closely punc- 
tured; elytra dull sage-green, clothed with greyish pubescence, with 
three entire raised lines ; legs rather long, dark. L. 8-10 mm. 
On flowers and in decayed trees; rare; Coombe Wood (Stephens) ; Richmond 
Park (Turner) ; Windsor Forest, on hawthorn blossom in May (S. Stevens); New 
Forest and Bristol (Stephens); Sherwood Forest, on mountain-ash flowers (Blatch) ; 
Ireland (Stephens). * 
PYROC SROIDA. 
This is a very small family, containing only about half-a-dozen genera 
and twenty species, which are found with one or two exceptions in 
Europe, Northern Asia, and North America ; two genera, Pyrochroa and 
Dendrvides, occur in Europe ; the former of these is represented in Britain 
by three conspicuous species, one of which is very common, and is well 
known to the most casual observers of insects; they are easily distin- 
guished by their size and colour and very elegant serrate or pectinate 
antenne; the head is exserted, horizontal or almost horizontal, strongly 
constricted a short distance behind the eyes, which are emarginate ; 
antennz 11-jointed, inserted before eyes; thorax narrower at base than 
elytra, with the sides not margined ; anterior coxal cavities broadly open 
behind and confluent, prosternum long before the anterior coxe, which 
are furnished with a distinct trochantin ; metasternuiv long, with narrow 
side pieces ; elytra wider than abdomen, rounded at apex ; abdomen with 
five free ventral segments, a sixth visible in the male ; legs long, penul- 
timate joint bilobed, claws simple. 
* Mr. W. F. Blandford has quite recently (June, 1890) taken a single specimea on haw « 
thorn blossom in the New Forest, where it had not occurred for many years previously. 
