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and strongly punctured ; elytra unicolorous red, or with the margins 
darker, with deep punctured strie, and very finely punctured interstices ; 
legs red, tarsi pitchy, anterior femora with rather strong and sharp 
teeth. L. 23-3 mm. 
Male with the posterior tibiz slightly curved and the pygidium with 
a central longitudinal furrow. 
On Scotch fir; very local; Scotland, Tay, Dee and Moray districts (Braemar, 
Aviemore, Rannoch, &c.). 
A rubi, Herbst. Black, unicolorous, clothed with distinct and 
evenly distributed, but scanty, greyish pubescence, which is closer on 
the breast and thick on scutellum ; head with an impression on fore- 
head; rostrum long, slightly curved, dull; antenne slender, reddish at 
base, fuscous towards ‘apex ; thorax broader at base than its length, 
strongly narrowed in front, very closely punctured ; elytra with strong 
punctured strie, interstices slightly convex; legs elongate and rather 
slender, black, with the knees and tarsi pitchy, all the femora with a 
small tooth ; tarsal claws bifid. L. 22-3} mm. 
Male with all the tibiz slightly curved. 
On various species of Rubus and Rosa, especially brambles and dog roses; com- 
mon and generally distributed throughout the greater part of the kingdom. 
A. comari, Crotch. Allied to the preceding, of which it has by 
many authors been regarded as only a variety; apart, however, froin 
its very much smaller size, it may be known by having the thorax much 
less narrowed in front and almost subparallel, the first joint of the 
funiculus of the antennz distinctly shorter and nearly as broad as long, 
and the femora more strongly dilated in the middle and abruptly nar- 
rowed before apex; the elytra are often of a lurid or livid colour; the 
species appears to occur in places and on a plant where A. ruli is never 
found. L. 13-2; mm. 
On Comarum palustre (Potentilla comarum, (The Marsh Potentil) ) : very local ; 
Northumberland and Durham district plentiful; Scotland, not uncommon in 
marshy places in several districts ; Ireland, near Waterford (Power); Rye (Ent. 
Monthly Magazine, vi. 88) records it as found by himself and Dr. Sharp in damp 
parts of small glens near Camachgouran, Perthshire ; the only southern record [ 
know of is Dover (C. G. Hall) ; it is, however, possible that this may refer to small 
specimens of the ordinary type form, which occasionally occur. 
A britannus, Desbr. (pubescens ? Walton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 1844, 106; wide Rye, Ent. Annual, 1870, p. 105). I can- 
not make anything of this insect which has been retained in all 
our catalogues; I have never seen a specimen, nor can I obtain any 
satisfactory information regarding the species: the following is Walton’s 
description :—‘‘ Ovate, testaceous, cinereo-pubescent. Head small, round, 
testaceous, punctulated and pubescent ; eyes globose, brown-black ; ros- 
trum rather longer than the head and thorax, slender, a little curved, 
punctulated, deep rufous, shining, and more or less fuscous at apex. 
