Anthre7ius.'\ clayicornia. 363 



Avith white and yellowish scales, first abdomiiuil segment with two bare 

 hollows to receive the posterior femora ; legs more or less red, femora 

 dark, clothed sparingly with white and yellow scales. L. 2i-3| mm. 



In natural history specimens, &c.; also ou flowers ; rare ; Lon<1ou district (Stephens) 

 Soutli ot'Enghind, " eating carpets " (Chappell) ; Glauvilles Woottoii (Dale); Edinburgh 

 (Stephens). 



Tliis species is variable in colour, and there are five named varieties in 

 the European catalogue ; it is, however, so rarely found in Britain that I 

 do not know whether any of these occur with us. 



A. pimpinellse, F. This species is somewhat closely allied to the 

 preceding, but is shorter, and on the average smaller ; it may be known 

 by its coloration, the prevailing colour of the scales being yellow instead 

 of white and the suture not being red ; it is, however, chiefly distinguished 

 from both the allied species by having a broad white band on the elytra 

 between the base and centre ; from A. varius it may also be known by its 

 reddish tibiae and tarsi. L. ^j- 3^ mm. 



On flowers, &c. ; very rare in Britain; recorded by Stephens from London, and 

 somewhat doubtfully from Sufiolk and Devonshire, and I believe that it has been taken 

 once or twice by other collectors. Erichson records it as not rare in Germany ou 

 Umbelli/ercE (Doldenbliithen). 



A. varius, F. (verhasci, L.). This species is of the same shape as 

 A. scrophularicB, but is much smaller ; it is black, almost entirely covered 

 when fresh with yellow scales, with the posterior angles of thorax, and a 

 patch at base before scutellum, and three more or less distinct waved 

 bands on each elytron white, the apical one often taking the form of a 

 patch; the eyes are entire, prominent; the punctuation of the whole 

 upper surface is rather coarse, and the scales are long and narrow ; under- 

 side clothed with fine, long, yellowish-grey scales, first abdominal seginent 

 with a bare hollow on each side to receive the posterior femora ; legs 

 black, tarsi often brownish, femora covered with whitish scales. L. 

 2-2 i mm. 



In natural history specimens; also on flowers; not common ; London district, Lee, 

 Cowley, &c. ; Dover ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Devonshire, Exeter (on flowers of Portugal 

 laurel) ; Swansea ; York. Scotland, very rare, Tweed and Forth districts. 



(Sub-Gen. Florilinus, Mulsant.) 



This genus contains three European species ; they are easily dis- 

 tinguished by the structure of the antennae, which are 8-jointed with 

 2-jointed club, by the somewhat distant posterior coxae, antl also by the 

 fact that the first abdominal segment has no bare hollows for the reception 

 of the posterior femora. 



A. musaeorum, L. Somewhat depressed, black, with black and 

 yellowisb- white small triangular scales ; antennae reddish, with club 



