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roTiglily punctured ; legs testaceous, with tiie posterior coxae dark, 

 L. 3-3 1 mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind Lody deeply emar- 

 ginate in an angle at apex. 



In vpf!;etiible rofiisp, dnng-lieap'!, &c. ; often unaccompanied by tlio succepding 

 species, from wliich when alive it has a different t'a':\e-i ; apparently local, hut often 

 confused with S. angustafus ; llusper, Lee, Esher, Cowfold, Forest Hill; Newnliain- 

 on-Severn ; Lincoln ; Knowle ; Tewkesbury. 



In the Proceedings of tlie Entomological Society of London for tlie 

 7th of March, 1870, Mr. Gorham introduced a species as >S. ncgledus ; 

 this species is apparently the true 8. angustatus of PaykuU, and the 

 insect which he understood by 8. angustatus is the S. diversus of Anbc ; 

 considerable confusion has existed with regard to these species^ and in 

 some books the descriptions are reversed and applied to the wrong insect 

 in each case. 



S. ang-ustatus, Paykull, This very distinct species may be easily 

 knoAvn from the preceding by its subquadrate and evidently broader 

 head, which is a little broader than the thorax ; its general form is 

 thicker, less slender, and less linear ; the apical testaceous border of 

 elytra is generally more or less broadly bordered with black on each side 

 almost to apexj and often takes the form of a common or double spot ; 

 the colour both of this and the preceding species is somewhat variable, 

 and occasionally the entire body is ferruginous or reddish testaceous, 

 with the head and part of the hind body darker, or entirely reddish. 

 L. 3-3| mm. 



In moss, haystack refuse, &c ; common throughout the greater part of Eiigland; 

 rarer further north, and not recorded from the Northumberland district ; Scotland, 

 not common, Tweed, Solway, Forth, and Tay districts; Ireland, near Dublin and 

 Waterford, and probably common. 



PSmSRUS, Fabricius. 



This genus contains more than a hundred species, which are very widely 

 distributed over the world, more especially in hot and tropical climates ; 

 only about a dozen occur in Europe, of which four are found in Britain ; 

 these are very conspicuous insects, being moderately large, of a l)right 

 red or reddish testaceous colour, with the head and apex of hind body 

 black and the elytra more or less brightly metallic blue or greenish ; 

 many of them are so closely allied that they can only be distinguished 

 by the structure of the oedeagus ; the brachypterous forms, according 

 to Mr. Champion, are arboreal in their habits : a detailed description 

 of each of our species is unnecessary ; in the male the sixth ventral 

 segment of hind body is simple or almost simple, and the seventh is 

 broadly and deeply emargiirate, the emargination being rounded at apex, 

 and slightly differing in shape in the various species ; they occur in 



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