J-Jpitraa.] clavioorkia. 229 



Bv bcatincr sall.ws, liawtliora blossom, &e., and by sweeping licrba-e ; n-t im- 

 common iu son.e localities, but much ravei- tbau the V^^^'^^^if ^V^^^'^^- ^^^"'ly." .'^'f 

 trict o-enerallv clistnl)ute(l, Cliathaai, Dareutb Wood, Wnnbledon, Caterluun MieUle- 

 ham "Clavgate, Shirley, Duhvich ; Amberley ; Holm Hush, lin.^hton ; Hastings ; 

 TewkesbuVv ; Bewdlev \ Yardley and Knowle, near Birmn.-bam ; Bretby, near Kepton ; 

 Barmouth • Northumberland district, very rarej Scotland, rare, Sohvay district; 

 Ireland, near Waterford. 



E. silacea, Er. Larger and less convex than either of the two pre- 

 ceding species, with much wider and stronger margins to the thorax; of 

 a hri °ht reddish-testaceous or luteoiis colour, unicolorous ; sides of thorax 

 narro"wed in front, contracted and almost sinuate hefore posterior angles ; 

 punctuation not so strong as in E. melina, but stronger than m E. 

 O'sHva; antenna3 with the last joint very slightly narrower than the 

 penultimate ; apex of elytra truncate ; legs reddish-testaceous. L. ^ 



nnu. 



Male with the intermediate tibice sinuate. 



Verv rare • Mr. Champion has taken it at Aviemore, Tay district, at sap of birch 

 (Thomson considers it as exclusively attached to flowers); it has also occurred at 

 Braemar,and in a rotten birch stump at the foot of Cross Craig near Camachgouvan, 

 Kaunoch • it is recorded in McNab's Dublin list as from near Dublin, but thisis pro- 

 bably in error, as very large specimens of E. astiva have sometimes been mistaken 

 for this species. 



B. oblong-a, Herbst. Oblong, depressed, testaceous, extremely 

 finely punctured, clothed with fine yellowish-grey pubescence ; auteniiie 

 of the same colour as the rest of the body with club darker, last joint 

 di'^tinctly narrower than the penultimate; thorax with the anterior 

 margin almost straight, side margins very distinct especially m front, 

 sides scarcely narrowed towards apex, posterior angles very marked ; 

 elytra more than double as long as thorax, truncate at apex ; legs testa- 

 ceous. L. 2|-3 mm. . 



Male with the intermediate tibi« slightly sinuate. 



Under bark and at sap of fir and pine, and apparently confined to these trees ; rare ; 

 «:hirlev Surrey (Rye), Sutton, Stourport and Bewdlev (Blatch ; Dunham I ark, 

 Manchester (Chappell); Northumberland district, Yetholm (Crotch); bc^otlaiul^ very 

 rare, under bark of Scotch fir, Tweed and Dee districts (.Sharp and Champion) ; 

 Ireland, near Dublin. 



B longula, Er. Very like the preceding, but distinguished by its 

 stroncrer punctuation and the darker, almost black, club of its antennas ; 

 from°^ florea it mav be known by having the anterior margin of the 

 thorax distinctly, although slightly, emarginate, by its longer and 

 narrower form, by the side border of the thorax being broader, and by 

 the dark club of the antennae ; in the male the anterior tibuc are slightly 

 sinuate. L. 2i-3 mm. 



On umbelliferous flowers; occasionally at sap; rare; Esher, Mickleham Tilgate 

 Forest; Addington, in Co.s.«8 burrows; Nettlecomb, Somerset; rewkesbury ; 

 Sherwood Forest ; Northumberland district, Gosforth ; not recorded from Scotland. 



