Anaspis. | HETEROMERA. 75 
1. Elytra variable in colour, blackish or brownish, 
but:withontispots) (2:0. ¢ woe) se wt) oy @ CAL BAVA; ZL. 
(v. thoracica, L.) 
2. Elytra very light testaceous with obscure dark 
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A. frontalis, L. (assimilis, Snell.). Elongate, subfusiform, black, 
clothed with very fine fuscous-grey silky: pubescence, with the base of 
the antenne, front of head, and the anterior legs, except more or less of 
upper margin, yellow or reddish-yellow; the whole of the cox are often 
more or less ferruginous; head very finely punctured, antenne rather 
long, with joints 6-10 gradually increasing in length and not monilitorm; 
thorax not much broader than long, narrowed in front, with the pos- 
terior angles almost right angles, sculpture very fine; elytra transversely 
strigose, the sculpture being distinct, but finer than in the allied species 
and much stronger than that of thorax; tibial spurs testaceous. L. 
2;-4 mm. 
Male with the antenne longer than in female, the anterior tarsi with 
the first joint transverse, slightly dilated, and the second and third 
joints oblong, strongly dilated ; the third ventral segment of the abdo- 
men is narrowly emarginate in the middle, and is furnished with two 
narrow lacinie or appendages which are approximate at base, and gradu- 
ally diverge and curve inwards towards each other at apex; these 
appendages almost reach the apex of the abdomen. 
Female with the antenne slightly thickened towards apex, abdomen 
simple. 
On flowers of white-thorn, by sweeping among grass, &c.; common and generally 
distributed throughout the kingdom. 
_ The yellow colour of the front of the head is variable, extending some- 
times over a greater and sometimes a lesser extent of surface; a 
variety oceurs on the Continent (A. lateralis, F., nee Thoms.), in which 
the yellow colour extends to the front and sides of thorax; I have not, 
however, seen any British examples. 
A. Garneysi, Fowler. In size, shape, and general appearance closely 
resembling A. frontalis, from which it may be known by the somewhat 
longer and more slender antenne and more evident sculpture, which is 
intermediate between that of A. frontalisand A. rujilabris ; the legs also 
are differently coloured, the anterior pair being clear yellow, with the 
exception of the apex of the femora which is dusky above; the inter- 
mediate and posterior femora are also entirely, or almost entirely, yellow, 
the tibiz being more or less variegated; the tarsi are fuscous; the 
antenne are long and slender with the joints much longer than broad; 
the thorax is scarcely broader at base than its length from base to 
apex ; the chief difference, however, lies in the male characters ; in this 
sex the third segment is much elongated, and is furnished with two rather 
stout and widely separated appendages, which are strongly curved 
