90 SERRICORNIA. 



nUo been recorded from lichgate and Coombe Woods, Silisbury, Windsor, Bur- 

 inoutli, and Crymlyn Bog, Swansea; it may IM> found in early spring by breaking 

 o;>en the dead and (Waving branches tliat have fallen from the oaks, Ac., in lliu 

 winter, or in dead trunks lying on the ground ; the insect is often found at some dis- 

 tance from the surface of the wood, aud the small logs aud boughs require to be 

 carefully split opeu aud examined.* 



E. coccinatus, Rye. This insect, according to Mr. Rye, who 

 separated the species, differs from all the other species with scarlet 

 elytra through its narrow parallel shape, long, parallel, duller and 

 densely punctured thorax, and the slight striae and flat interstices of its 

 elytra ; the pubescence of the upper surface is brownish. Mr. Rye 

 remarks that it most closely resembles the immaculate form of E. 

 siinyuinolentus, but may be readily separated from that insect by its 

 longer antennae, longer, duller and posteriorly canaliculated thorax, <fec. 

 L. 11-12 mm. 



In oaks, &c. ; very rare ; Kensington Gardens and Windsor Forest (Rye) ; Sher- 

 wood Forest (Blatch) ; it appears to be doubtful whether it has occurred in the New 

 Forest ; it has_been taken in oaks in France in the Forest of Foutaiuebleau by M. 

 Bedel and M. Grouvelle. 



E. saneruinolentus, Schr. (coccinetis, Schiodte ; ephippium, 01. 

 Black, with scarlet elytra, which are almost always furnished with a 

 long common black spot, but are occasionally immaculate ; pubescence 

 greyish or greyish-yellow ; the form is a little narrower and more 

 parallel than in E. sanguineus or lytliropterus ; immaculate specimens, 

 as a rule, have the suture narrowly black in the middle, but they may 

 further be distinguished from the two species just mentioned by their 

 shorter and more convex thorax, which is more plainly sinuate before 

 posterior angles, and presents scarcely a trace of a central furrow even 

 at base, and further by the fact that the pubescence on the head consists 

 of pale and black hairs intermingled. L. 8-11 mm. 



At the roots of hpath ; on nettle flowers ; by beating trees, Ac. ; local, and usu- 

 ally rare ; Darenth Wood, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Epping Forest ; New Forest ; 

 Sulisbury ; Christchurch ; Oxford ; Bewdley Forest. 



X!. pomonee, Steph. Very closely allied to E. lythropterus, from 

 which it differs by the pubescence being black (sometimes dark fuscous 

 on elytra), and by having the extreme apex of the elytra blackish ; 

 from E. sanyuinem it may be distinguished by the latter character, and 

 also by the absence of a central furrow on thorax, which is scarcely, if 

 at all, traceable even at base ; from the immaculate form of E. san- 

 fjuinoleittus it may also be known by having the thorax rather less con- 

 vex, the joints of the antennas slightly longer, and the elytra a little 

 flatter. L. 9-11 mm. 



* The only Scotch record for this species, " Raehills, in decayed birch trees during 

 winter ; very rare, Rev. W. Little," is considered by Dr. Sharp to be probably erro- 

 neous, the species referred to being possibly E, pomorum. 



