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la the male the antennae are longer than in the female, and the. 

 general size is smaller. 



On flowers of Umbellifera, especially in and near hop-gardens ; local, but usually 

 common where it occurs; Dareuth Wood, Shooter's Hill, Tollbridge, Mitidstone, 

 Bexley, Chatham, Ac. ; New Forest ; Devon ; Upton-on-Severn, Malvern ; Bewdley ; 

 banks of the Bolliu, Cheshire ; Manchester district ; not recorded from further 

 north. 



ANOPLODERA, Mulsant. 



This genus is very closely allied to Leptura, from which, indeed, it 

 can hardly be separated ; the chief difference appears to lie in the fact 

 that the antennae are longer and that the elytra are more parallel ; the 

 cheeks are broad, and the neck narrow and constricted ; the thorax is 

 pubescent, with the posterior angles not prominent; eleven species have 

 been described from North and Central Asia and from Europe ; of the 

 four European species one is found in Britain ; it is rarely unicolorous 

 black, but as a rule may be easily known from all our species of Leptura 

 by the large yellow spots on the elytra, which are sometimes more or 

 less confluent. 



A. sexgruttata, F. (Leptera gejcguttata, auct.). Elongate and sub- 

 parallel, rather depressed, black, under-side and scutellum clothed with 

 thick silvery pubescence, upper-side with fine and rather scanty ashy 

 ence, elytra with three large yellow spots on each placed longi- 

 tudinally, the hinder pair of which are sometimes confluent ; occasionally 

 these are entirely wanting ; head and thorax strongly and closely 

 punctured, the latter pilose, rather convex, narrowed in front, with 

 posterior angles obtuse, and with an obsolete central channel; elytra 

 strongly punctured, with the punctuation much less close than that of 

 thorax; legs moderately long. L. 8-11 mm. 



The two posterior spots appear to be usually confluent in the male, in 

 which sex the intermediate coxae are armed with a small tooth, and the 

 posterior tibiae have the interior margin subcarinate behind and ter- 

 minated by a single spur, instead of by two as in the female. 



On flowers in woods, and by sweeping grass; rare; Dart-nth Wood, Kent; New 

 Forest; there appears to be uo other British locality known; the entirely Muck 

 variety has been taken by Dr. Power at Darenth, and recently by Mr. Gorhaiu 

 iu the New Forest. 



LEPTURA, Linnc*. 



This genus, iu its widest sense, includes between two and three 

 hundred species ; these are chiefly confined to the Northern Hemi- 

 sphere ; a few, however, have been described from South America, South 

 Africa, &c. ; if we take out the genera Anoplxlcra and Stranyalia, 

 about thirty species are found in Europe; the gi-nus /.?/ifura proper is 

 easily distinguished from Stranyalia and Grammtytera by not having 



