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or less distinctly black ; central furrow scarcely 



mark. (1 at base E. POUOHX, Stepk. 



IV. Elytra uuicolorous brownish-red; pubescuce 



fuscous E. POUOBUM, Herbtt. 



\ . Klvtra brick-red or browuish-red, with apei black, 

 i. A|> \ <! ilvtni only black; form more acuminate 



brbind ; size smaller E. ELONGATCLU3, F. 



ii. A|iical third of elytra black; form less acuminate 



behind ; size larger E. BALTBATU8, L. 



V I . Kly tra black, with margins and a longer or shorter 

 [..it'ch at base and behind scutelluui brownish- 



yt-llow E. TBI8TI8, L. 



VII. Klytra entirely black. 



i. Form smaller and narrower ; antennae shorter and 



more slender ; interstices of elytra plainly rugose . E. NIGBINU3, Payk. 

 ii. Form larger and broader; antenna) longer and 

 ttouter ; interstices of elytra punctured, scarcely 

 rugose E. .ETHIOPS, Lac. 



E. sang-uineus, L. (rufipenniS) Stcph.). Black, with bright scarlet 

 elytra, clothed with black pubescence; head thickly punctured, antennae 

 black, sometimes pitchy brown towards base ; third joint almost double 

 as long as second ; thorax about as long as its breadth at base, rather 

 strongly and moderately closely punctured on disc, much more thickly 

 at margins, depressed at base, with an impressed central line traceable 

 throughout ; elytra with distinct punctured strife, interstices distinctly, 

 although finely and not closely punctured; legs black, tarsi and apex of 

 tibiae reddish or pitchy red. L. 10-12 mm. 



I'nder bark and in decayed wood; very rare; New Forest; also recorded by 

 Stephens from the West of England and Bagley Wood, Oxon ; according to Erichson 

 and Thomson, it is chiefly confined to pine and fir trees (" Nadelholzern," Er. ; 

 "Barrskoga," Thorns.).* 



E. lythropterus, Germ, (sanguineus, Steph., nee L.; semiruler, 

 Steph.). Very closely allied to the preceding, but easily distinguished 

 by the colour of the pubescence, which is pale, of a yellowish-red or 

 light fuscous colour, and by the fact that the central channel of the 

 thorax is only apparent towards base ; the punctuation of the thorax 

 appears to vary somewhat in different specimens, but is, on the whole, 

 a little closer on disc than in E. gunguineus, and the thorax itself is a 

 little longer proportionally ; in the latter species the striae of the elytra 

 are rather strongly marked at base, and one or two, at all events, are 

 continued without punctures to base ; in E. lythropterut, however, they 

 distinctly cease a little before base, and are not so strongly marked ; 

 legs black, with tarsi ferruginous. L. 10-11 mm. 



In decaying oaks and birch; also on the wing, over bracken, Ac. ; local, but not 

 uncommon in tin- New Forest, where it has sometimes been taken in numbers; it has 



It is a pity that we have no exact words in Kn^lisli to express the (it-rmaii 

 " Nailrlbaume" and "Lauhbauinc" ("needle trees" and " leaf trees"), and the 

 Swedish " Barrtrad" and " Loftrad." 



