Dasyfes.] SERRICORNIA. 161 



hairs ; head rather finely and irregularly punctured, eyes large, antennae 

 feebly serrate, dark ; thorax a little longer than broad, narrowed 

 slightly in front, impressed before and behind middle, sparingly and 

 rather strongly punctured on disc, thickly and somewhat rugosely at 

 sides ; elytra elongate, four times as long as together broad, somewhat 

 depressed, thickly, irregularly, and somewhat rugosely punctured ; legs 

 slender, femora dark, tibiae testaceous, tarsi fuscous or fusco-testaceous. 

 L. 4-4^ mm. 



Male with the head together with eyes broader than thorax, and the 

 antennae half as long as the body ; fifth ventral segment of abdomen 

 depressed in middle and emarginate at apex. 



Female with the head a little narrower than thorax, and the antennae 

 reaching a little beyond the base of the thorax, with the fifth joint 

 double as large as those before and after it ; the posterior tibiae and tarsi, 

 also, are more or less fuscous. 



By sweeping herbage and beating low shrubs, especially in lanes and woods ; not 

 uncommon and rather generally distributed in the London district and the South of 

 England and certain Midland districts ; I know, however, of no locality further 

 north than Repton, near Burton-on-Trent. 



D. oculatus, Kies. This species was introduced by Mr. Crotch, who 

 states that the males may be distinguished by their large globose eyes, 

 the space between which is much narrower than in D. flavipes, and that 

 the females have the base of the antennae and the anterior coxae tes- 

 taceous, whilst in the same sex of D.flavipes only the second joint of 

 the antennae is testaceous, the eyes, also, in this sex being less developed ; 

 the thorax also in D. oculatus is said to be longer and to be without the 

 central furrow which is traceable in D. flavipes, and the fourth joint of 

 the tarsi is much shorter and narrower than the third, whereas in the 

 List-named species it is only slightly shorter and narrower. L. 44^ mm. 



By sweeping herbage, and beating shrubs, in woods, &c. ; rare ; Daren th Wood ; 

 Cobham Park; Chatham ; Cow ley ; Wigmore, Kent; Sherwood Forest ; Mr. Crotch's 

 original specimens were taken by Mr. VVollaston in Lincolnshire, probably at Sprid- 

 lington, near Lincoln. 



There seems to be a considerable doubt admissible regarding this 

 species, which is identified by Crotch with the D. coxalis of Mulsunt 

 and the D. plumbeus of Illiger; it is very hard to separate it by the de- 

 scriptions, and the distinctions are more or less comparative and some- 

 what variable : Mr. Gorham informs me that he is not sure of the species, 

 and I am glad to find that such an authority on the Malacodermata has 

 found the same difficulty that many others have experienced, 



D. aoroBus, Kies. (plumlew, Muls., nee Mull.; ceratus, Steph.; 

 tukeneu*, Thorns. ; plumleo-niyer, Goeze). Very like the two preceding 

 in general shape, and also resembling them in pubescence and punctua- 

 tion, but easily distinguished by the dark tibiae, the legs having only the 



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