90 Dr. Sharp's Revisiotb oj the 



Var. — Minor, (long. 1| lin.) 



H. longicollis, Muls. Op. i. 18 ; Scriba, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 

 1866, p. 379. 



Variat, colore fere toto testaceo, plus minus ve infuscato. 



A tolerably large, bvit rather narrow, species ; the an- 

 tenntB are long, scarcely thickened towards the apex, 

 first, second, and third joints elongate, and of about equal 

 length, the third about half as long again as the fourth : 

 from the fourth to the tenth each joint is a little shorter 

 than the preceding one ; the length of each joint is greater 

 than its breadth, eleventh joint about half as long again 

 as the tenth. Head a little narrower than the thorax, 

 with a distinct channel in front (often absent in the small 

 var.); together with the thorax finely punctured and 

 pubescent. Thorax narrower than the elytra, about as 

 long as broad, the sides nearly straight, scarcely at all 

 narrowed behind, thickly and finely punctured, with an 

 obsolete fovea in the middle at the base. Elytra a little 

 longer than the thorax, and redder in colour than it, 

 about as long as broad, thickly and finely punctured. 

 Abdomen with the hind margins of the segments paler ; 

 segments 2-5 very densely and finely punctured, the sixth 

 nearly impunctate. Legs yellow. 



The male has a distinct tubercle in the middle of the 

 sixth abdominal segment, and the hind margin of the 

 seventh is furnished with six small, but distinct teeth, 

 four placed rather near one another in the middle, and 

 one at each outside ; the seventh segment underneath is 

 not rounded at the apex, but pointed, the point being, 

 however, only a very obtuse angle. 



This is a very distinct species, and differs from the 

 following by its thorax not narrowed behind, and its 

 very densely punctured abdomen, as also by its difi'erent 

 colour, antennae, &c. 



Yery rare. I have taken a male specimen at Hammer- 

 smith Marshes, and have seen a few others from the 

 neighbourhood of London. 



The small var. longicollis is also very rare, but has 

 been several times taken near London; Scriba has fol- 

 lowed Mulsant in regarding it as specifically distinct ; 

 but he has considered the next following species as H. 

 languida (I am indebted to him for the inspection of his 

 types) ; so that his opinion must be put aside. 



Specimens of H. languida, sent by Kraatz to the British 

 Museum, agree entirely with our British ones. 



