Eluter.] sKuuicouxiA. 91 



Very rare ; New Forest (Turner) ; Stephen* records it from Dan-nth Wood and 

 Baruiouth. 



E. pomorum, Ilerbst. (ferrttgatut, Lac. ; crocatus, Stoph., nee Lac. ; 

 uchrv, oh.). Black, with the elytra of a dark brownish-red 



colour, sometimes lighter at extreme base, clothed with fuse us pubcs- 

 . are ; head tliickly and distinctly punctured, antennae l)lack with 

 1 and third joints lighter or darker pitchy, third joint longer than 

 i, but plainly shorter than fourth; thorax about as long as broad 

 at base, distinctly but not very closely punctured on disc, more closely 

 at sides, depressed at base, with central furrow absent or only indicated 

 at base ; elytra with the pubescence rather lighter than on thorax, with 

 distinct punctured stria, interstices somewhat convex, punctured; legs 

 Mack, tarsi pitchy red. L. 8-10 mm. 



Under bark and in decayed branches of deciduous trees ; very local ; Dean Forest 

 in considerable numbers (Hodgson); Cannock Chase (Blutch) ; Sherwood Forest in 

 oaks, &.c. (Blatch, Turner, and others v , ; Scotland, very rare, Tay and Dee dis- 

 tricts; Ireland, one specimen in a birch tree at Churchill, co. Armagh (Rev. \V. 

 Johnson). 



E. elong-atnlus, F. (preeustus, Steph.). The smallest of our species 

 with red elytra ; black, with the elytra brick-red except apex which is 

 distinctly black, upper surface clothed with blackish or fuscous pubes- 

 cence ; antennae black, with the second and third joints pitchy brown 

 or pitehy red, third joint hardly longer than second and very much 

 shorter than fourth ; thorax somewhat longer than broad, rather sparingly 

 punctured on disc, more closely at sides, pubescence blackish, depressed 

 at base, with central furrow absent or scarcely traceable at base ; elytra 

 acuminate behind, with deep punctured striae, interstices punctured 

 and clothed with dark hairs ; legs black, tarsi pitchy reddish. L. 6- 

 7 mm. 



In decaying oaks ; rare; Dare nth Wood (Power); New Forest; Shirley Warren, 

 Southampton (Gore) ; Nuthurst, Sussex (Stephens). 



E. balteatus, L. Black, elytra rod -with the apical third black, 

 upper surface clothed with fine greyish pubescence ; head closely 

 punctured, antcnnie with the third joint longer than second and not 

 nuieh shorter than fourth; thorax longer than broad, feebly narrowed 

 in front, rather thickly and finely punctured; elytra subpaiallel to 

 posterior third and thence very gradually narrowed to apex, with 

 punctured striie, interstices slightly convex and rather thickly and 

 distinctly punctured ; legs black, tarsi pitchy red. L. 7-8 mm. 



By beating birches, ic. ; occasionally in rotten wood of oak and birch, where it 

 passes its earlier stages ; local, but not uncommon in many localities, and sometimes 

 abundant M-la-re it occurs ; Darenth Wood, Bin-h Wood, Shooter'.* Hill, Kichmond 

 1'ark, Coombe Wood, Forest Hill, Esher, Mu-kleh:.m, Weybridgc, U-ith Hill; Al.Uy 

 \V.,.,<1 ; Devon ; liaMiioiith ; Bcwtlli-y Fun-si ; Pultun Park, Birmingham ; CMIIIKH k 

 Cha.-c; (.'bailK-y -Mosc, Staflordbhirc ; Wind&ur ; Lincoln ; York; Kipou ; bear- 



