242 I.ONGICORKIA. 



II. Klytra bliu-k or pitchy black. 

 i. Legs more or less black ; pubescence grey. 



1. Antriiii;i' entirely black . G. ANA i. is, Panx. 



2. Antennoo with the first two joints clear reddish, 



and the rest reddish with the apex black . . . . G. HUFICOKNIS, F. 

 ii. Legs light reddish-testaceous, with the tibite more 

 or less pitchy ; pubescence yellow, scanty at apex, 

 which appears dark G. PB.&USTA, F. 



G>. tabacioolor, De G. (lavis, F.; s.g. Alosterna, Muls.; Leptura 

 chrysomeloides, Schrank., H. S. W.). Elongate, narrow, linear, black 

 with the elytra livid testaceous, the apex and suture being narrowly 

 black ; under-side with thick silvery pubescence ; head large, antennae 

 black with base reddish ; thorax longer than broad, very closely punc- 

 tured, with rather thick and fine greyish-yellow pubescence ; elytra 

 somewhat strongly and not closely punctured, with rather coarse 

 yellowish pubescence ; legs yellow, with the tarsi and sometimes apex of 

 posterior femora black. L. 6-8 mm. 



Male with the elytra very slightly narrowed to apex, and with the 

 antennae a little longer than in female, in which latier sex the elytra 

 are quite parallel. 



On flowers, &c. ; in woods and hedges; not uncommon, and generally distributed 

 in the London district and the South, and found in many Midland localities; rarer 

 further north; Lincoln; York; Northumberland and Durham district; Scotland, 

 very rare, Tweed and Forth districts ; " Peasedean, Berwickshire, and Midcalder," 

 Murray's Cat. Ireland, near Dublin and Belfast. 



Cr. analis, Pauz. (dbdominalis, Steph. ; variegata, Germ. ; femorata, 

 Muls.). Elongate, linear, parallel-sided, black, clothed with somewhat 

 scanty ashy pubescence above, and thick silvery pubescence beneath ; 

 head large, antennae entirely black ; thorax rather longer than broad, 

 very closely and finely punctured ; elytra a little broader in proportion 

 than in the following species, with close and rather strong and somewhat 

 asperate punctuation, pubescence almost wanting at apex, which thus 

 appears darker ; apical segments of abdomen more or less rufous ; legs 

 black, femora with base red. L. 7-9 mm. 



On flowers and oak trees, &c. ; rare; Daren th Wood (Stephens); Westcrham, 

 Kent (Gorham) ; Belvedere (Wood) ; New Forest (Steven*, Champion, Power, and 

 others) ; I have taken it at Matlock in the Lovers' Walks at the beginning of 

 June. 



G. ruticornis, F. Smaller than the preceding, which it much 

 resembles in general appearance, black, clothed with ashy pubescence, 

 which, is scanty above, and thick and silvery beneath ; antennae with 

 the two basal joints red, and the remainder red at base and black at 

 apex ; thorax longer than broad, very closely punctured ; elytra closely 

 and rather coarsely punctured ; legs red with the tarsi and the posterior 

 tibiae black, and the femora all more or less dark at apex ; in some 



