Cyphon."] SEKRICORNIA. 123 



appears to be rather bright reddish-testaceous, with the head dark, and 

 the antennae dark with the base lighter ; the legs are testaceous. L. 

 2-2 mm. 



A northern species ; rare ; Scotland, Sol way, Tay, and Dee districts ; it is very 

 probable that the specimens referred toby Bold (Catalogue of the Insects of Northum- 

 berland and Durham, page 75) as C. nigricept belong to this species. 



C. pallidulns. Boh. (ocJiraceus, Steph.). A small, oval, shining, 

 entirely testaceous species, with the eyes black, and the antennae 

 towards apex and the elytra at sides sometimes slightly darker; the form 

 is shorter, more convex, and rather broader in proportion than in 

 C. variabilis, the elytra are rather more strongly and less thickly 

 punctured, and the pubescence is more scanty ; from C. punctipennis it 

 may be known by its smaller and more oval form and more closely and 

 less strongly punctured elytra. L. \\ mm. 



Marshy places, by sweeping grass, Ac. ; local; London district, rather common. 

 Lee, Chatham, Esher, Wimbledon, Keigate, Leith Hill, Sheerness, Husper, Tonbridge ; 

 Wicken Fm ; New Forest; Devon (recorded as very rare on mountain ash at Haldon) ; 

 Knowle; Cannock Chase; Bewdley ; Repton ; Northumberland district, rare, Long 

 Benton, Gosfortb, &c. ; Scotland, local, Solway, Tay, Dee, and probably other 

 districts. 



C. padi, L. (discolor, Panz. ; pygmaeus, Payk.). The smallest of our 

 species, which may at once be known by its size and colour; oval, 

 moderately convex, somewhat depressed on disc, clothed with rather 

 thick and strong greyish pubescence ; head and thorax dark, antennae 

 rather short, dark with base lighter ; elytra varying from entirely dark 

 with apex lighter to testaceous with suture and sides dark ; legs tes- 

 taceous, with femora usually darker ; the elytra are very closely, but 

 rather strongly punctured, the punctuation, as in fact is the case in all 

 the species, becoming finer and more or less obsolete at apex. L. 

 mm. 



Marshy places, by sweeping grass, &c. ; also in moss and flood refuse ; somewhat 

 local, but generally distributed throughout the kingdom ; Bold records it as not 

 common in the Northumberland and Durham district, but Dr. Sharp mentions it as 

 being common in Scotland ; it appears to be very local, however, in the Midlands, 

 as far as my experience goes. 



PRIONOCYPHON, Redtenbacher. 



This genns contains one European and two North American species : 

 the former is found very rarely in Britain, and may be known from all 

 our other Cyphonidae by having the antennae in male serrate from the 

 fourth joint; the third joint is very small, scarcely visible, and the first 

 ia much dilated ; the posterior tarsi have the first joint elongate, 

 scarcely shorter than the remaining joints together. 



P. serrlcorniB, Mull, (chrysomeloiden, Steph.). Of an almost 



