178 Rev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



5 . Black, sliiiiin<? ; legs and 2d abdominal segment rufous. 

 Body pubescent, on the under side ratlier thickly. Mandibles, and 

 sometimes clypeus, rufescent. Antennae more or less rufous at the 

 base, somewhat longer than the body, 30 — 31-jointed. Metathorax 

 convex, finely rugulose, dull, with an indeterminate smooth space 

 on each side of the base. Wings hyaline, stigma fuscous, nervures 

 paler, radix and squamulae dull stramineous. Legs elongate, 

 stout ; base of hind coxae, hind tibiae at the tips, and their tarsi, 

 infuscated ; hind coxte armed underneath with a vertical and some- 

 what obtuse tooth ; hind tarsi the longest ; claws bifid. First 

 abdominal segment subquadrate or hardly longer than broad, with 

 a transverse impression on each side before the middle, dilated at 

 the base where the salient tubercles are situated, longitudinally 

 rugulose, especially towards the sides, the extremity smooth in the 

 middle ; 2d segment rufous, with or without a medial fuscous spot 

 on the disk ; 3d segment black, rufous at the sides and underneath, 

 its ventral hind margin bidenticulate ; the same denticulation is 

 repeated more and more faintly on the following ventral segments. 

 Terebra very short ; valves ferruginous, pilose, rounded, sqviami- 

 form. Male unknown. Length, 1 — If ; wings, 1| — 3 lin. 



Var. Abdomen entirely black. Wesmael. 



This species only differs from the following in the 

 more pronounced denticulation of the cox?e and ventral 

 segments, and in the distribution of the rufescence of 

 the abdomen ; it is therefore not unlikely that they 

 belong to the same species, as Wesmael supposed, and 

 that the species is moderately variable. Found rarely, 

 in woods ; I possess 2 females, one taken in the Forest 

 Hills, Leicestershire, the other in Brittany, near Lok- 

 mariaker. 



2. Liophron lituratus, Hal. 



Ancylus lituratus, Hal., Ent. Mag., ii., 461, 2 . 



Jjciophron lituixitus, Reinh., Berl. ent. Zeit., 18G2, 

 p. 335, ^ ? . 



L. armatus, var. 1, Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 

 1835, p. 105, $ . 



Only distinguished from the preceding as follows : — In general 

 larger, the red portions of a duller hue; antennae 31 — 33-jointed; 

 abdomen longer and more slender ; 2d segment black or piceous 

 above ; sides of all the segments, and the entire belly, rufous ; 

 denticulation of the ventral segments and hind coxae less distinct. 

 The ^ (which I have not seen) differs, according to Reinhard, in 



