144 Mr. E. Saunders’ Synopsis of 
Its dull appearance and the hairs on the thorax and 
legs at once separate this from podagricus. 
NOTOCHILUS. 
1. limbatus, Fieb. Scolop. crassicornis, Dougl. & Scott. 
Ferruginous; head and front of thorax fuscous; base 
and hind angles also dark; elytra with a broad black 
band across the middle; apical margin also narrowly 
black. Membrane dusky, with a pale streak on each 
side. Antenne thick; Ist joint red, the rest black. 
Legs red; apices of the thighs narrowly black. 
Length 14 line. 
Southsea. 
SCOLOPOSTETHUS. 
I. Thorax dark in front, pale behind. 
A. Antenne entirely pale.. ac se «- pictus. 
B. Antenne with Ist and 2nd joints pale, rest 
black... we oc ac Sc -. adjunctus. 
C. Antenne with only the base of the 2nd and 
1st pale— 
a. Elytra finely hairy .. oe «» affinis. 
b. Elytra glabrous oe ee e- ericetorum, 
II. Thorax dark all over .. ne x ce -» contractus. 
1. pictus, Schill. Fig. Panz. Faun. Germ. 120—5. 
Head black; thorax much wider behind than in front, 
ochreous-brown, punctured with darker brown, with the 
anterior margin narrowly red, and with a large quad- 
rangular brown spot on its anterior half; lateral margins 
white, the white colour widening about the middle; pos- 
terior angles dark brown; there is also a brownish cloud 
above the scutellum which is black. LElytra ochreous, 
with occasional lines of brown punctures; apex of clavus, 
two spots on the corium side by side, one on the disk, the 
other on the lateral margin, and a broad band across the 
end, jagged on its upper margin, dark brown. Membrane 
white; a spot at the base and the nerves brown. <An- 
tenne and legs testaceous; front femora and a ring on 
the hind femora brown, 
Length 2 lines. 
Fens, Cambridgeshire, Xe. ; rare. 
2. adjunctus, D.& 8. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. 
pl. vi. fig. 9. 
I need hardly describe this, as the preceding is similar 
in almost every point except the following:—Thorax 
