Malaehiug.] SERRICORNII. 157 



M. marg-inolluB, 01. ( lispinoau, Curt.). In size and general 

 appearance this species mticli resembles M. bipuslulatus, but may at once 

 be known by the shape and colour of the thorax, which is about as long 

 as broad and suborbicular, of a bright green or bluish-green colour, with 

 the sides rather broadly and very clearly and sharply orange-red ; the 

 anterior and intermediate tarsi, especially the former, are reddish, as 

 also is the apex of the elytra ; the male characters will also at onco 

 separate the species ; in this sex the second joint of the antennae is very 

 small and simple, and the five following are excavate internally, and 

 are produced at apex into a more or less distinct and prominent blunt 

 tooth ; the apex of the elytra, moreover, is much reflexed, so that it 

 almost appears broken in, and each elytron is furnished near the sutural 

 angle with a long sharp spinose tooth, the sutural angle itself being 

 also dentate ; the forehead and clypeus are swollen. L. 5 mm. 



On flowers, &c. ; very local, but sometimes common where it occurs ; Folkestone 

 and Whitstable (on flowers of Honkeneya peploides near the coast (Champion)); 

 Birchington ; Deal; Hastings; Portsmouth district ; Eastbourne; Devon; Scotland, 

 very rare, Solway district (Sharp) ; Stephens records it from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, 

 Kent, and Slapton Ley, Devon ; its occurrence in Scotland is worthy of note, as it 

 seems otherwise almost confined to the south-eastern coast. 



AXXNOTARSUS, Motschulsky. 



The members of this genus were formerly included under Malacliiuf, 

 from which they may be known by having the second joint of the 

 anterior tarsi in male obliquely produced at apex, and their smaller size; 

 there are eight European species, of which two are found in Britain. 



I. Thorax black with side margins broadly yellowish-red . A. PULICARIUS, Fab. 

 II. Thorax entirely red A. BUFICOLLIS, Ol. 



A. pulicarius, F. Of an obscure green or blackish-green colour, 

 shining, clothed with fine greyish pubescence, elytra with scattered 

 coarse upright black hairs ; mouth parts yellow, thorax black with the 

 sides very broadly and sharply yellow or yellowish-red; head large, 

 antenna very long in male, shorter in female, more or less testaceous, at 

 all events on the under-side of the joints ; thorax a little narrower than 

 elytra, about as long as broad, suborbicular, impressed at posterior 

 angles, very finely punctured ; elytra very obsoletely and finely punc- 

 tured with the apex rather broadly yellowish ; legs blackish-green, with 

 the anterior tarsi testaceous. L. 3-3J mm. 



Male with the antennae longer, and the elytra deeply and bluntly 

 inflexed at apex obliquely. 



By swet'pintr Umbelliferse, <tc. ; local and not common ; Claygnto, Surrey ; 

 Wandsworth (Waterhouse) ; Peckham and Walworth (Stephens); Charlton in some 

 numbers (Lewis). 



A. ruficollia, 01. (ruhricullis, Marsh.). Of about the same size as 



