Malthodfi*.'] SKHRICORNTA. 1*>1 



Male with the head broader than in female, and narrowed behind ; 

 dorsal segments of abdomen simple and not elongate ; penultimate 

 ventral segment deeply eroarginate, the last forming a slightly curved 

 style, which is not dilated at apex, channelled at base beyond middle, 

 and not split or incised. 



By beating young bircbes, sweeping herbago, &c. ; rare in England ; Sevonoaks, 

 \V..kiujjr, Catt-rliam, Esber, Tilgate Forest; Yardley near Binninglmm, Trench 

 Woods, and Kodborough Common (Blatch) ; near Manchester, rare; Northumber- 

 land and Durham district, not common, but widely spread over the district ; the 

 species is, however, recorded by Dr. Sharp as common in Scotland, in the Solway, 

 Tay, Dee, and Moray districts. 



M. minimus, L. (sanguinolentus, Fall.). This, the commonest of our 

 species, is easily known by its bright colouring, the thorax being often 

 of a clear reddish-yellow colour, with or without a small dark spot on 

 disc; occasionally the greater part of the upper surface is dark, but the 

 margins are always distinctly lighter; antennae fuscous, with base 

 yellow ; abdomen with margins of segments yellow ; elytra sulphureous 

 at apex ; the head is finely and closely but distinctly punctured, espe- 

 cially on vertex; antennae in male about as long as the body; thorax 

 subquadrate, with sides almost straight and not or scarcely margined, 

 with all the angles blunt, anterior angles projecting; elytra broader 

 than thorax, about two and a half times as long as together broad, with 

 the pubescence more marked than in most of the species, especially at 

 apex, very finely and rugosely punctured, and somewhat alutaceous; 

 legs clear reddish-yellow, with the femora blackish. L. 3-3| mm. 



Male with the head broader than thorax, and constricted slightly 

 behind; last dorsal segments simple and not elongate, penultimate 

 ventral segment broadly and not deeply emarginate, the last slightly 

 narrowed and produced, subovate, divided from base into two broad 

 rounded lobes. 



By sweeping herbage, beating shrubs, &c. ; usually in somewhat damp places ; 

 common and generally distributed throughout the kingdom. 



M. fibulatus, Kies. One of the most distinct and easily recognized 

 of all our species ; of a unicolorous greyish or fuscous black colour, 

 with the mandibles, base of antennae, and the anterior and posterior 

 margins of thorax narrowly, but distinctly, yellow ; under-side more or 

 less yellowish ; antennae in male very long, reaching beyond apex of 

 body, much shorter in female; thorax about as broad as long, anterior 

 angles blunt, slightly projecting, posterior angles almost rounded ; 

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

 obsoletely and rugosely punctured, darker at base and apex ; legs tes- 

 taceous or fusco-testaceous, with the femora darker. L. 2^-3 mm. 



Male with the head broader than in female, and strongly narrowed 

 behind ; penultimate dorsal segment produced, emarginate at apex, and 

 eeuding out on each side two processes, the apical one spiuiform (or, 



