9-t CLAVICORXIA. [Bryaris. 



Guestling, ncnr Hasting*; Portsmouth; Luccoml e Chine, Isle of Wight; Devon; 

 not recorded from the Midland or Northern Counties; the only Scotch record 

 " Huehills, Uev. W. Little ;" Murray's Cat., is probably erroneous ; Ireland, near 

 Belfast. 



BRYAXIS, Leach. 



This genus in its widest sense includes a lurge number of species ; 

 more than a hundred are enumerated in the Munich catalogue, and a 

 considerable number have since been described ; they appear to be 

 generally distributed throughout the world ; they are, as a rule, black 

 with bright red elytra, or entirely reddish, but some species are uni- 

 colorous pitchy-brown or blackish ; they are found, like so many of the 

 others of the group, in moss, at roots of grass, &c., and sometimes are 

 taken abundantly by sweeping ; from Bcdrisus they are distinguished 

 (together with Rylaxis) by the fact that the tarsi have only a single claw, 

 and from Bytliinus by the much shorter and less conspicuous maxillary 

 palpi of which the last joint is about as long as the two preceding. 



I. Thorax at base with three equally large and deep 



foveae. 

 i. Anterior trochanters of male simple ; elytra red, 



thorax and abdomen reddish or pitchy-red ; size 



comparatively large B WATEHHOUSEI, Rye. 



ii. Anterior trochanters of male more or less strongly 

 toothed. 



1. Colour unicolorous pitchy-brown ; size compara- 

 tively large B. FOSSTJLATA, Reich. 



2. Colour pitchy-black, elytra red or reddish-brown ; 



size smaller. 



A. Male with first visible segment of abdomen with 

 a tubercle at apex surrounded behind with a 

 semicircular fovea ; form broader ; abdomen 



more closely and distinctly punctured . . . . B. HELFEEI, Schmidt. 



B. Male with first visible segment of abdomen 

 simple ; form narrower ; abdomen less thickly 



punctured B. COTUS, Saulcy. 



3. Colour entirely red, elytra brighter ; male with 

 the apical margin of the first visible dorsal 

 segment dilated at each side and incised in the 



middle B. H/EMATICA, Reich. 



II. Thorax with three foveaj at base of which the middle 



one is extremely small, 

 i. Colour entirely red, elvtra brighter ; head and thorax 



thickly punctured ; size smaller B. JUXCORUM, Leach. 



ii. Colour black, elytra bright red ; head and thorax 



smooth, very obsoletely punctured ; size larger . . B. IMPRESSA, Panz. 



B. Waterhousei) Rye (simplex, Wat.). Rather a large and long 

 species, of the size of. It. sanyuinea ; lighter or darker pitchy-red cr dark 

 brown with a reddish tinge, with the elytra red, usually darker at 

 margins ; head subtriangular, rather broad ; antennae and palpi pitchy, 

 last joint of the former ovate ; thorax broader than head, much dilated 

 in middle, smooth, with three equally large fovece at base ; elytra taken 



