Necrophonis.] CLAVICORNIA. 45 



In carcases, &c. ; rare; Dulwich ; Caterham ; Weybridge ; Wimbledon; Tilgate 

 Forest; Dover; Hastings; New Forest ; Phillack, Cornwall; Hunstanton, Norfolk, 

 Norwich. 



V. gallicus, Duv. This variety has the posterior trochanters hooked, 

 instead of obscurely emarginate at apex, and the clypeus of the male 

 more deeply emarginate. I have only seen one or two British specimens, 

 without locality attached. 



JX. vespillo, L. This species may at once be known from all the 

 other orange-banded species by the strongly curved posterior tibiae : the 

 thorax has a yellow fringe of hairs in front, and the abdomen is thickly 

 clothed with yellow pubescence, so that superficially it bears a strong 

 resemblance to N". vestigator : apart, however, from the shape of the 

 tibiae, it may be easily known from that species by having the thorax 

 much less dilated in front, and by the long pointed posterior trochanters. 

 L. 15-20 mm. 



In carcases ; not uncommon and generally distributed throughout the greater part 

 of England ; rarer further north ; Scotland, not common, Sol way, Forth, and Moray 

 districts ; Ireland, Dublin, Waterford, Belfast, &c., and probably general. 



NECROBES, Wilkin (Aslolus, Voet). 



This genus in shape much resembles Necrophorus, but in several 

 points is more closely related to Silpha, and has by many authors been 

 regarded merely as a sub-genus of this latter genus ; it might perhaps be 

 more correct so to consider it, but external structure certainly ought to 

 have some weight, and the single European species of Necrodes differs so 

 much in this point from all our native species of Silpha that it appears 

 to be the best plan to separate it at all events provisionally ; representa- 

 tives of the genus have also been recorded from India and South 

 America. 



X. littoralis, L. A large species, somewhat variable in size, black, 

 with the thorax shining, and the elytra somewhat dull ; head triangular, 

 strongly contracted behind eyes, which are prominent; antennae black, 

 with the three last joints reddish-yellow, club very gradual (a point that 

 at once separates the genus from Nccrophorus) ; thorax rather broader than 

 long, with the sides strongly rounded, disc almost smooth, finely punctured, 

 sides thickly punctured, with an indistinct central furrow, and more or less 

 obsolete depressions towards base ; scutellum long, pointed behind, thickly 

 punctured ; elytra much widened behind, thickly punctured, with rather 

 strongly raised margins, and three raised lines on each ; third interstice 

 with a strong tubercle behind middle ; in the male the posterior legs are 

 very much enlarged, the femora being very strongly thickened, and the 

 tibiae very much curved ; the anterior tarsi are also dilated. L. 13-25 mm. 



In carcases; somewhat local, but not unco, p.nion, and generally distributed through- 

 out the count rv. 



