200 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Polydrusus. 
B. Thorax not closely covered with scales, 
and also furnished with very short hairs ; 
colour very variable. 
a. Elytra oval with the humeral pro- 
minences scarcely marked; legs red; 
(species maritime) . . . . . - - . P. CHRYSOMELA, Ol. 
b. Elytra with the humeral prominences 
well marked. 
a* Elytra scarcely broader at shoulders 
than thorax ; femora dark, tibia red P. CONFLUENS, Steph. 
b* Elytra much broader at shoulders 
than thorax; femora and tibie, uni- 
colorous, dark . . . .. . . . P. CERVINUS, Z. 
P. micans, F. (mollis, Strém., sec Bedel), A rather large and 
conspicuous species, black, clothed with narrow, hair-like, brilliant 
coppery golden scales, antennz and legs red, club of the former some- 
what darker; head and thorax coarsely punctured, the latter rather 
small, with the sides very slightly rounded; elytra large and ample, 
somewhat gibbose behind, with comparatively strong, although very 
narrow, punctured strie, colour of scales usually fiery-copper, but 
sometimes greenish; legs moderately long. L. 63-85 mm. 
Woods and hedges ; on young birches, oaks, hazels, sallows, &c. ; very local, but not 
uncommon where it occurs; Mickleham, Darenth, Shooters Hill, Westerham, Bearsted, 
Chatham, Swanscombe Wood, near Gravesend; Burnham Beeches; Glanvilles 
Wootton; Swansea; Bewdley; Bretby Wood, Repton; Carlisle ; Northumberland 
and Durham district; Scotland, Tweed, Clyde and Forth districts (Murray’s Cat.) ; 
Dr. Sharp, however, says that the species is unknown to him as Scottish, and that 
he is inclined to suspect an error in the determination (Scottish Nat., July, 1879). 
P. sericeus, Schall. Oblong, subcylindrical, black, clothed through- 
out very thickly with rather dull round green scales, antenne pale 
testaceous, club usually dusky; head with an impression between eyes, 
thorax subtransverse, very slightly narrowed at apex, with an obsolete 
central dorsal furrow ; elytra large, with finely punctured strie ; legs 
pale testaceous, with the femora somewhat thickened, usually rather 
dusky, and more or less clothed with green scales, armed beneath with 
an obsolete tooth. L. 5-6; mm. 
Male narrower, with the posterior tibia furnished with long pubes- 
cence within towards apex, and the anterior armed with a small hook ; 
fifth ventral segment slightly impressed transversely before the apical 
margin which is rounded. 
Female with. the anterior tibie nearly simple and the posterior tibize 
sparingly pilose, fifth ventral segment conical triangular. 
On shrubs and trees (oak, hazel, willow, &c.); very rare; Kimpton, Hants 
(Rev. G. ‘I. Rudd); Kimpton, received from Mr. Reeks, taken June, 1875 (S. 
Stevens) ; Thruxton (Reeks), also from Saunders (Champion) ; Stephens records that 
he has found it near London, but that most of his specimens were received from the 
vicinity of Bristol ; in woods near Swansea (Dillwyn). 
