156 8KRRIOORNIA. 



reddish ; legs rather long, dark, metallic, with tarsi sometimes pitchy. 

 L. 6-7 mm. 



Male with the second joint of the antenna produced in a point inter- 

 nally at apex, third joint armed at apex with a long curved hook, nearly 

 meeting the produced process of second joint, forehead with a deep 

 transverse impression in front, clypeus swollen. 



Female with the antennae and forehead simple. 



On flowers, &c., especially in woods; locnl ; London district, rather common; 

 Darenth Wood, Wokiug, Horsell, Belvedere, Tilgate, Eppiug, Chatham, Sheerness, 

 Southend, Tonbridge ; St. Leonards ; Gosport ; New Forest ; Glanvilles Wootton ; 

 Barnstaple ; Swansea; Knowle, near Birmingham; Repton ; Kuutsford, Cheshire; 

 Northumberland and Durham district, rare, Stockton and Newcastle ; the species has 

 not, apparently, been found in Scotland. 



M. bipustulatus, L. Of a bright metallic green colour, rarely 

 bluish, with the mouth parts yellow, and the apex of elytra, and the 

 extreme anterior angles of the thorax, orange-red ; the extensible vesicles 

 at the anterior angles of thorax are always visible in this species, and, as 

 they are of a bright orange-red colour, they make the anterior angles 

 appear more broadly red than they really are ; head very finely punc- 

 tured, dull ; thorax transverse, with the sides and angles rounded, 

 depressed at posterior angles ; elytra feebly rugose, with very faint 

 traces of raised lines ; pubescence much as in the preceding species ; 

 under-side dark, metallic, with sides of mesosternum yellowish-red ; 

 legs metallic green. L. 5-5| mm. 



Male with the basal joints of the antennae whitish-yellow beneath, 

 second joint furnished beneath with a large broad curved appendage, 

 third joint small, with a projecting tooth, fourth joint with a large 

 hooked process nearly meeting the process of the second joint, fifth joint 

 somewhat dilated ; forehead with a deep transverse impression, clypeus 

 swollen. 



On flowers, and by general sweeping ; very common and generally distributed 

 from the Manchester district southwards ; it is, apparently, not uncommon in the 

 Northumberland and Durham district, but Dr. Sharp records it as very rare in the 

 Forth and Tay districts of Scotland ; he has not apparently met with it at all in the 

 Solway or Tweed districts. 



XVI. viridis, F. Very like the preceding in general appearance, but 

 smaller, with the thorax subquadrate and not transverse and quite uni- 

 colorous, and with the apex of the elytra only narrowly reddish ; the 

 sexual characters, moreover, are very slight, the male only having the 

 first joint of the antennae incrassate, and the rest simple, and the fore- 

 head and clypeus somewhat swollen in front ; the apex of the elytra is 

 occasionally concolorous. L. 4 mm. 



On flowers, &c. ; local ; London district, rather common and generally distributed ; 

 Whitstable ; Margate and surrounding district ; Deal ; Brighton ; Portsmouth 

 district ; Weyinouth ; Devon ; Cambridge ; Trench Woods ; it has also been recorded 

 from Carlisle. 



