Nccroj^h or/is.] clavicornia. 43 



exposed ; legs stout^ posterior tibite either straight or curved ; some of 

 the species are very variable as regards size. 



About a dozen species of Necropliorus are found in Europe, of -whi*!! 

 seven are regarded as British ; one of these, however, N. (jcrnw.uicns, is 

 somewhat doubtfully indigenous. 



I. Elytra black, without orauge bands. 



i. Club of anteuiiffi black, epii)lcuia3 red . . . . N. geemanicus, L. 

 ii. Club of antenusR reddish-yellow, epipleurae black 



or ob.scurely brown N. nUMATOR, F, 



II. Elytra black, with large orange bands. 



i. Club of antenna; black N. MORTUORtrM, F. 



ii. Chib of auteunse reddish yellow. 



1. Posterior tibia3 straight. 



A. Thorax with long yellow hairs on all the 



margins N. VESTIGATOH, Htisch. 



B. Thorax witliont yellow hairs on margins. 



a. Anterior orange band continued without 

 interruption across both elytra ; abdomen 



with thin pubescence at extreme apex . N. uusPATOK, Tir. 



b. Anterior orange band of elytra inter- 

 rupted by alongitudinal common dark band 

 at suture: abdomen broadly and thickly 



pubcK'cut before apex N. intkiikui'TUS, Sfcp/i. 



2. Posterior tibias curved; thorax with yellow 



hairs on anterior margin N. vespillo, L. 



N. g"ermanicus^ L. The largest species of tlie genus ; l)lack, with 

 a spot on forehead (which is obscure in female), and the epipleume of 

 <'lytra reddish testaceous, antenuic short, with the club black ; thorax 

 trapezoidal, with angles rounded, disc finely cliannelled and punctured, 

 rather raised, sides strongly punctured; scutellum long; clytia closely 

 ]iunctured with two feebly raised longitudinal lines on each ; legs some- 

 what stout, anterior tarsi of male dilated and furnished beneath with 

 reddish brush-like hairs. L. 25-32 mm. 



Very rare and doubtfully indigenous; recorded by Stephens from Moushold Heath 

 near Norwich, Oxford, and the banks of the Thames above Windsor, and by Curtis 

 from Norfolk; it has lately been recordt d from Fairlight near Hastings, in the 

 catalogue of the Coleoptera of the neighbourhood compiled Ijy ]\lr. E. A. Butler and 

 others. 



N. humator, Goeze. Entiicly black, with the head and thorax 

 shining, and the elytra thickly jiunctured and duller; club of antennae 

 yellowish-red, thorax slightly narrowed behind, finely and diffusely 

 jiunctured on disc, thickly and strongly at sides; elytra with three rather 

 distinctly raised lines on each ; anterior tarsi strongly dilated in male. 

 L. 18-28 mm. 



In carcases; common and generally distributed throughout the kingdom. 



N. mortuoruxn, V. {veqiilloides, Herbst). Black, witli two orange 

 bauds on the elytra, the latter of which is reduced to tAVO large kidney- 

 bhaped patches : this point and tlie black club of the aiitcnnte will at 



