60 LAMKLLICORNIA. [Gnurimus. 



tubercles on the pygidium of the female are less strongly marked, and 

 the intermediate tibiae of the male are more strongly curved and 

 constricted. L. 14-18 mm. 



On flowers and in orchards, in the rotten wood mould of fruit trees, rare ; Dart- 

 ford, Kent; Tonbridge (Horner) ; Devonshire; Stephens records it from Dart-nth, 

 Birch and Gooinbe Woods, Greenhithe Wood, and Carlisle (Illustr. iii. p. 231), and 

 also from Devonshire (Manual, p. 170). 



This and the preceding species appear to have become exceedingly 

 scarce of late years; it is quite possible they may occur again; but at 

 present they seem to be becoming extinct in Britain. 



TRICHIUS, Fabricius. 



This genus contains at present thirteen species ; like those belonging 

 to the preceding genus, they are mostly northern in their range ; three 

 are found in Europe, and the remainder have been described from 

 Northern Asia, North America, and Japan ; one has been found in 

 Teneritfc ; our two British species, under various names, appear to range 

 right across Europe and Northern Asia, one of them having been found 

 in Kamtschatka ; they are of an orange or yellow colour, with dark 

 bands, and owing to their velvety appearance and strongly villose 

 thorax and abdomen present rather the appearance of a humble-bee than 

 a beetle, especially when on the wing. 



I. Average size larger ; abdomen thickly villose at sides . T. FASCIATU8, L. 



II. Average size smaller; abdomen bare, or almost bare, 



at sides T. ABDOMINALIS, Men. 



T. fasciatus, L. Black, with the head and thorax clothed with 

 very strong yellowish pilose pubescence, which is very long and thick ; 

 pygidium and breast with the pubescence long, thick, and pilose, but 

 lighter ; abdomen more thinly pubescent ; elytra of a velvety-looking 

 bright orange or yellow colour, with the scutellary region, as a rule, and 

 the suture narrowly, a fascia at base usually meeting at scutellum, a 

 fascia on middle not meeting at suture, and the apex, black ; these 

 markings vary in size and extent, but the first yellow band never reaches 

 the shoulder ; the apical patch is usually more or less round, raised, and 

 shining, the apex of the elytra being raised into a blunt tubercle ; head 

 rather long, thickly punctured ; clypeus bare in front, emarginate ; 

 antennae reddish-brown, with club black ; thorax much narrower than 

 elytra, rounded at sides, and contracted in front, more finely punctured 

 in the male than in the female, the sculpture, however, being hidden 

 by the pilose pubescence ; scutellum black, pilose and punctured ; 

 elytra dull, with scattered yellowish hairs, very feebly sculptured; 

 pygidium finely rugose, with a white spot on each side at base. L. 

 10-13 mm. 



Male with the anterior tarsi with the first joint dilated externally, and 



