Aijrilus.} SEBIUCORNIA. 71 



By boating young birch, hazel, &.c. ; local, but not uncommon where it occnr* ; 

 Dnrenth Wood (in abundance) , Esher, Reigate, Ripley, Aslitcnd, Caterliam, C'hob- 

 liiim, Woking, Tonbridge, &c. ; Guestling, iiear Huntings; Southsea ; New Forest; 

 Ili.vwood.Clanvilles Wootton ; Hertford; Suffolk; Bewdley Forest ; Trench Woods ; 

 Robins Wood, Repton ; York. 



A. viridis, L. (viridipennis, Lap. ; quercinus, Redt.). Rather larger 

 than the two preceding species, but closely allied to them in colour and 

 general appearance ; it is, however, distinguished by having the eyes 

 sinuate on their inner margin, the thorax with the basal lateral foveaj 

 less deep, and the elytra not broadly rounded at apex, and the apex 

 plainly serrulate, whereas in the other two species the denticulation is 

 very indistinct; the last ventral segment of the abdomen, moreover, is 

 rounded and has no impression in the male, and the forehead is even 

 and not furnished with a shallow furrow on vertex ; from A. laticornis 

 the species may, of course, be distinguished by the formation of the 

 antennae. L. 5-7 mm. 



On young trees, especially oaks ; very rare ; Baddon Wood . and Mount Sorrel 

 (Power); Woodford (Turner); York (R. Cooke); Scotland, very rare, Solway 

 and Argyle districts ; there are very few specimens of the species in our collections, 

 and probably large specimens of A. anguttulus arc often confused with it. 



APHANISTICUS, Latrcille. 



This genus contains about forty species, which are widely distributed, 



s having been recorded from Egypt and Algeria, Madagascar, 



Natal, Ceylon, Japan, Mexico, the Malay Peninsula, the Australian 



region, <fcc. ; seven are found in Europe, of which one only occurs in 



Britain, and that very rarely. 



A. puBillus, 01. (lineola, Geim.). Elongate, black, shining, with 

 a feeble aeneous reflection, upper surface rather convex ; head large, very 

 strongly furrowed, almost bilobed ; antennae short, with the first two 

 joints thickened, and the last four serrate ; thorax transverse, convex, 

 with three transveise impressions, posterior angles acute ; upper surface 

 of head and thorax very finely wrinkled, alutaceous ; scutellum small, 

 triangular ; elytra at base about as broad as base of thorax, slightly 

 widened behind middle, and narrowed towards apex, finely punctured 

 in somewhat irregular rows, apex obtusely truncate ; legs black, femora 

 dilated on their inferior margin, tarsi short with the joints lobed. L. 

 1|-2| mm. 



Grasy places, by sweeping ; also occasionally by beating hedges, and in moss ; 

 rare; Woking, Coombe Wood, Chatham, Strood, Sonthend; Detil (Champion); 

 Folkestone (Waterhouse) ; Bury Hill, Arundel ; Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight ; 

 Newlaud Common, near Olanvilles Wootton (Dale and Wollaston) ; Kiugsbridge ; 

 Bath; Oamlinghay, Cambridge (Power) ; Scarborough (Lawson). 



TRACK VS, Fabricius. 

 The species contained in this genus may be easily known by their 



