143 SERRicoRXiA. [Telephurut. 



base yellow, or yellowish with apex gradually darker; thorax bright 

 reddish-yellow, with anterior angles rounded, and posterior angles rather 

 marked; scutellum reddish-yellow; elytra black, rather coarsely and 

 rugosely sculptured ; under-side reddish-yellow, breast sometimes more 

 or less dark ; legs clear reddish-yellow, with tarsi somewhat darker, 

 external claw armed with a sharp tooth at base. L. 5 mm. 



By sweeping long grass and flowers ; very local ; Sydenham, Netting Hill, 

 Belvedere, Aylsham, Tonbridge ; Shipley, near llorsham ; Southend ; Pegwell Bay ; 

 Hastings; Dover; Qlanvilles Wootton ; Swansea; Dunham Park, Manchester; 

 Kepton, Burton-on-Trent (where I once found the species abundantly in an osier bed 

 at the bottom of the village, but I have never met with it in any other locality, nor 

 does Mr. Blatch record it from the Midlands) ; York ; Cumberland ; Scotland, very 

 local, Solway district, found in numbers near Dumfries by Mr. Lenuon, but hp.s not 

 occurred in any other place ; the distribution of the insect is very peculiar. 



RHAGONYCHA, Eschscholtz. 



This genus is distinguished from Telephones by having the tarsal 

 claws apparently bifid, the tibiae more slender and straighter, and the 

 tibial spurs, much less distinct; there are fifty-three European species, 

 of which seven are British. 



I. Length 10-11 mm.; thorax reddish -yellow, elytra 



anicolorous testaceous R. UNICOLOB, Curt. 



II. Length 4-8 mm. 



i. Thorax yellowish-red, unicolorous ; elytra red or 

 yellowish-testaceous, with apex black. 



1. Head black ; elytra yellowish-testaceous . . . . R. FTTSCICORNIS, 01. 



2. Head and elytra red R. FTJLVA, Scop. 



ii. Thorax black with sides more or less broadly 



yellowish. 



1. Femora entirely yellow R. TESTACEA, L. 



2. Femora black R. LIMBATA, Thorns. 



iii. Thorax unicolorous black. 



1. Elytra yellow -testaceous R. PALLIDA, F. 



2. Elytra black R. ELONGATA, Fall. 



R. unicolor, Curt, (translucidus, Brit. Cat. ; pilosa, Steph., Er., 

 nee Payk.) . A large and conspicuous species, which may be known 

 from other species with a red thorax by its very prominent eyes, and 

 the strong contraction of the head behind eyes; the British specimens 

 that I have seen all have the upper side of a unicolorous reddish 

 testaceous colour, with the head and thorax redder than the elytra, but 

 occasionally the elytra appear to be dusky, especially about scutellum ; 

 the tipper surface, especially of the elytra, is clothed with rather long 

 yellowish pubescence; head with a depression between eyes, which are 

 very large and prominent, antennae very long, especially in male ; thorax 

 longer than broad, and somewhat contracted in front (in this respect, 

 however, the insect appears to be somewhat variable, as I have one 

 specimen, a female, in which the thorax is subtransverse with sides 

 subparalld) ; elytra long, rugosely punctured, with traces of raised 



