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clothed with short yellow hairs; extreme base of all the pairs 

 brownish-yellow ; tibics pale brownish, with long, somewhat spinose 

 black hairs, apex blackish ; tarsi and claws piceous. 



Abdomen. Upper and undersides pitchy black or brown, the 

 latter clothed with short yellow hairs. 



Length, \\ If line. 



Abundant on Pinus sylvestris, in July, at Dartford Heath and 

 Shirley. 



Dr. Pieber agrees with us in its being distinct. It differs from 

 the other species of the genus in its more elongate form and the 

 thinner 2nd joint of the antennsB. Immature examples are pale- 

 brownish or pitchy yellow. 



Genus 6. HETEROTOMA, Lat. 

 Elongate, narrow, almost parallel. 



Head horizontal, 1^ times as broad across the eyes as long ; 

 Crown almost flat, level with the upper margin of the eyes ; Clypeus 

 convex, prominent, apex rounded ; antenniferous processes short, in a 

 line with the middle of the eyes ; Face vertical ; central lobe long 

 and pointed, very convex and considerably produced; side lobes 

 short, narrow, slightly rounded outwardly. Antennce shorter than 

 the body; 1st and 2nd joints greatly incrassated, especially the 

 latter, 1st cylindrical, as long as the head, 2nd fusiform, flattened 

 on the sides, almost 3 times longer than the 1st ; 3rd and 4th fili- 

 form, subequal, very short, together about % the length of the 2nd. 

 Eyes large, prominent, viewed from above subglobose, from the side 

 reniform. Rostrum reaching to beyond the 3rd pair of coxse ; 1st 

 joint stout, reaching to the xyphus of the prosternum. 



Thorax. Pronotum longish trapeziform, 1-| times as broad on 

 the posterior margin as long, and with 2 callosities in front ; ante- 

 rior margin straight, slightly indented in the middle, angles 

 rounded; sides slightly concave; hinder angles acute; posterior 

 margin slightly concave, extremities rounded to the hinder angles. 

 Scutellum triangular, equilateral, almost level with the clavus, with a 

 transverse channel a little before the centre. Elytra longer than 

 the abdomen ; Clavus convex, deflected to the corium ; Corimn hori- 

 zontal as far as the junction with the cuneus and membrane, which 



