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; legs clear reddish-yellow, external claw armed with a tooth at 

 base ; under-side reddish or dusky, with apex, sides, and margins of 

 segments more or less red. L. 10-11 mm. 



Male with joints 5-10 with a small impressed line at base, third 

 joint double as long as second. 



Female with the antennae simple, and the third joint one and a half 

 times as long as second. 



On flowers and by sweeping long grass in woods; rare; Darenth Wood, Seven- 

 oaks, Kipley, Maidstone; Shipley, near Horsbam ; Guestling, near Hastings; 

 Devon ; Llangollen ; Bewdley ; Cannock Chase ; Bretby Wood, near Repton ; 

 Ripon ; Marple, Cheshire ; Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, very 

 rare, in wood?, Solway district. 



R. fuscicornis, 01. (v. Maerkelii, Kies.). Head, apex of elytra, 

 and chief part of under-side black, thorax reddish-testaceous, elytra, 

 except apex, testaceous or brownish-testaceous ; head finely punctured, 

 antennae fuscous, with base usually somewhat lighter ; thorax quadran- 

 gular, subtransverse, with anterior angles obtuse, and posterior angles 

 well marked ; scutellum rather large, fuscous; elytra clothed with long 

 and scanty yellowish pubescence, with coarse and shallow rugose 

 sculpture; legs yellow, with tarsi sometimes slightly fuscous; pro- 

 sternum and apex of abdomen testaceous. L. 6-7 mm. 



Antennae longer in male than in female, and elytra widened behind 

 in the latter 



By beating hawthorn-flowers, sweeping, &c. ; not uncommon and rather generally 

 distributed from the Midlands southwards; rarer further north; Northumberland 

 and Durham district, rare ; it has not, apparently, been hitherto found in Scotland. 



&. fulva, Scop, (melaiiura, 01.). Head and thorax clear red, elytra 

 of a deep reddish-testaceous colour with the apex rather broadly black, 

 under-side red or more or less dark ; head finely punctured, antennas 

 long, black with red base; thorax longer than broad, narrowed in front, 

 uneven, depressed in middle; scutellum red; elytra with rather long 

 pubescence, rugosely sculptured, with traces of raised lines ; legs clear 

 red, tarsi black with red claws. L. 6-8 mm. 



Male with the head broader and the eyes more prominent than in 

 female ; the thorax also is longer than in the latter sex. 



On flowers, especially Umbelliferse ; extremely common in late summer and eurly 

 autumn ; the most abundant of all our species. 



XL. testacea, L. This and the following are the smallest of our 

 species; head and under-side black; thorax black with side margins 

 broadly testaceous ; antennae fuscous with base more or less broadly 

 yellowish ; elytra and legs entirely yellow-testaceous ; head very closely 

 punctured, thorax transverse broader than long or subquadrate; 

 scutellum dark ; elytra with long pubescence and with shallow rugose 

 sculpture and traces of raised lines, broader behind in female than in 

 malt-. L. 4-5 mm. 



Male with tho penultimate ventral segment broadly pmarinat' :tt 



