Anthocomus.] SERRICORNIA. 159 



A. fasciatus, L. Entirely black or greenish-black, with a broad 

 fascia on each before middle, which does not reach suture, and the apex 

 red ; the base of the antennae on its under-side and the knees of the 

 anterior legs are also more or less plainly testaceous ; the head with 

 eyes is about as broad as the thorax, which is about as broad as long 

 and a little narrower than the elytra ; the antennae are short, and as in 

 the preceding species, feebly serrate ; the elytra are slightly widened 

 behind; the general punctuation and pubescence is extremely fine. 

 L. 3-3 mm. 



Male with the elytra reflexed at apex, and furnished with a small 

 black reflexed lobe, which is bent backwards, and is spinose at its inner 

 angle. 



Grassy places ; by sweeping ; occasionally by beating sallows, willows, &c. ; some- 

 what local, but rather common in many localities. London district, generally dis- 

 tributed ; Hertford ; New Forest ; Glanvillcs Wootton ; Devon ; Swansea ; Bewdley ; 

 Tewkesbury ; Hereford; Repton (rare); Hale and banks of Bollin, Cheshire; it has 

 not, apparently, been recorded from the Northumberland and Durham district, or 

 from Scotland or Ireland. 



A. terminatus, Men. (festivus, F. ; ruficolli^ F., nee 01. ; Cara- 

 pheles terminatus, Muls.). This species differs considerably from the 

 two preceding by its shorter form and longer and more filiform antenna?; 

 it has by some been confused with Axinotarsus ruflcollis, 01., from 

 which it may be at once known by its dull appearance and the fact that 

 the tibia* and tarsi are of a clear reddish-yellow colour with the 

 onychium and claws only darker ; the punctuation and pubescence are 

 extremely fine ; the head is rather large, and the antennae moderately 

 long, with the first joint partly, and the second and third entirely, 

 testaceous, and the rest of a lighter or darker brownish colour ; the 

 thorax is a little narrower than the elytra, scarcely transverse ; the 

 elytra are widened behind, dark green with the apex reddish-yellow, 

 the colour sometimes covering the apical third ; the femora are dark. 

 L. 3 mm. 



Male with the elytra reflexed at apex and appendiculate ; female 

 apterous. 



By sweeping, Ac. ; apparently very rare ; I know of no recent captures, and the 

 specimens 1 have seen are mostly from old collections; Stephens records it from 

 WLittlesea Mere, and it has also occurred at Mickleham, Monks Wood, and Horning 

 Fin, Norfolk. 



DASYTINA. 



In this tribe the species are not furnished with lateral vesicles, and 

 have the antenna usually plainly serrate and inserted on the sides 

 of the head before the eyes ; the tarsal claws are with or with- 

 out membranous appendages, and the sixth ventral segment of the 

 abdomen is sometimes indistinct ; the genus Byturns is, in some points, 

 closely connected with this tribe, and has, in fact, by some authors 



