80 HETEROMERA. [Anaspis, 
it also has the thorax a little broader, and the antenne more evidently 
moniliform, but these are scarcely appreciable differences. 
I have at some length discussed the question of A. thoracica, as it 
will serve to show the difficulties that are to be found in the genus 
Anaspis ; if any student would thoroughly take up the question and work 
it, he might probably add three or four more of the recognized species 
belonging to the genus to the British list. 
A. subtestacea, Steph. Testaceous or fusco-testaceous, with the 
apex of the antenna, or the whole of the antennz, except base, and also 
the abdomen, and sometimes base and apex of elytra dark ; occasionally 
the abdomen is in part or wholly testaceous; pubescence fine and rather 
close ; antenne rather long, not moniliform, with all the joints evidently 
longer than broad; thorax nearly as long as broad, very finely sculp- 
tured, posterior angles not obtuse, almost right angles; elytra rather 
long, somewhat pointed at apex, very finely strigose transversely, the 
sculpture being nearly as fine as on thorax; legs testaceous. L. 3-35 
mm. 
Male characters peculiar, the second ventral segment of the abdomen 
being furnished with two linear appendages, which are very long; from the 
apex of the third segment there arises a vertical plate furnished with a 
tooth beneath, and divided behind into two lobes which reach the apex 
of the fifth segment ; the fourth segment bears two short appendages, 
and the fifth is deeply cleft and bilobed ; the anterior tarsi are dilated. 
On flowers, &c.; local, but not uncommon in many districts; London district 
rather common, Sevenoaks, Darenth Wood, Croydon, Caterbam, Shirley, Coombe 
Wood, Forest Hill, Birch Wood, West Wickham, Crohamhurst, &c.; Suffolk ; 
Hastings ; New Forest; Glanvilles Wootton; Devon; South Wales; ‘Tewkesbury ; 
Knowle ; Buddon Wood, Leicestershire ; Repton, Burton-on-Trent ; Dunham Park, 
Manchester; Northumberland and Durham district, rather uncommon (Bold); not 
recorded from Scotland or Ireland. 
A. maculata, Foure. (melanopa, Forst.; obscura, Marsh. ; bipunctata, 
Bon. ; pallida, Marsh.). Pale testuccous, clothed with fine silky yellowish- 
grey pubescence, with the apex of the antenne, breast and abdomen 
black ; the seutellary region, acommon sutural spot at apex and a round 
or transverse patch on the dise of each elytron before middle are more or 
less plainly fuscous ; in some specimens the spots before middle are alone 
present (v. bipunctata, Bon.), and in others all the spots are absent (v. pal- 
lida, Marsh.) ; the antennz are considerably thickened towards apex, with 
the penultimate joints moniliform and transverse or subtransverse ; thorax 
a little broader than long, very finely sculptured, with the posterior 
angles almost right angles ; elytra very closely and finely strigose trans- 
versely ; legs pale testaceous. L. 2;-3 mm. 
Male with the anterior tarsi dilated, and with the third segment of 
the abdomen produced in middle and furnished with two appendages 
which are approximate, and reach the apex of the abdomen; fourth seg- 
ment short, emarginate in middle; fifth segment foveolate in the middle 
and slightly emarginate at apex. 
