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elytra ; penultimate ventral segment of abdomen deeply emarginate in a 

 semicircle, last segment forming a long style which is cleft from base, 

 with parallel lobes, which are emarninate on their outer side, and reflexed 

 so as to form a hook behind middle ; last dorsal segment membranous, 

 not covering the style, dilated at apex and slightly emarginate on its 

 apical margin. 



Female with the head scarcely narrower than thorax, which is hardly 

 narrower than elytra ; last ventral segment of abdomen deeply incised at 

 apex almost to middle. 



By beating and sweeping ; rare; Tonbridge; Dean Forest; Glossop; Clifton, 

 near Manchester ; Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, rare, So! way , 

 Tay, and Moray districts. 



M. flavogruttatus, Kies. Fuscous black, shining, with the mouth, 

 and the under-side in part, testaceous; head without eyes a little 

 narrower than thorax ; antennae in m ile longer than the body, pitchy 

 brown with base a little lighter ; thorax unicolorous black or pitchy 

 black, broader than long, margined all round, with posterior angles right 

 angles; elytra about two and a half times as long as together broad, 

 with the apex sulphureous yellow, nigosely and obsoletely punctured, 

 more plainly at apex; legs brownish with femora somewhat darker. 

 L. 3|-4 mm. 



Male with the head broader than in female, and with the penultimate 

 and antepenultimate dorsal segments produced in an acute angle on each 

 side; penultimate ventral segment emarginate, last segment produced 

 and forming a moderately curved style, which is triangularly emarginate 

 at apex, but not split from base as in the two preceding species. 



By beating and sweeping ; load ; Aylsham ; Glanvilles Wootton ; Knowle ; 

 Bewdley ; Salford Priors j Repton; Cheshire; Scotland, Sjlway, Tay, and Moray 

 districts. 



K. gruttifer, Kies. Fuscous black, with the anterior and pos- 

 terior margins and sometimes all the margins of thorax yellow; head 

 without eyes somewhat narrower th in thorax ; antennae pitchy with 

 base lighter, as long as, or longer than, body in male, shorter in female ; 

 thorax broader than long, posterior angles right angles, projecting ; 

 elytra broader than thorax, about twice as long as together broad, 

 obsoletely punctured rugosely, with distinct traces of raised lines, apex 

 sulphureous yellow; epimera and margins of ventral segments of 

 abdomen yellow; legs fuscous, with knees, and often apex of tibiae and 

 base of tarsi, yellowish. L. 3-3 f mm. 



Male with tin- head broader than in female ; thorax a little narrower 

 than the elytra; last dorsal segments of abdomen elongate, the pen- 

 ultimate somewhat raised at apex, the last deflexed, slightly emarginate 

 at apex ; penultimate ventral segment deeply emarginate in a semicircle, 

 the last forming a slightly curved style, which is cloft from base, tho 

 lobes being parallel and acuminate and simple. 



