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than S. discoideus, to small pale examples of which it bears a superficial 

 resemblance. 



I have seen only one specimen of this insect, which I took on the sea- 

 banks near Hartley in April, and with which no description known to 

 me fully agrees." * 



S. testaceus, Mots. (Muhanti, "Wat. ; s.g. Pullus, Muls.). Oval, 

 moderately convex, yellowish-brown or reddish-yellow ; thorax short, 

 strongly narrowed in front, finely punctured, variable in colour, some- 

 times being dark only before scutellum ; elytra with base and suture 

 dark ; under-side brownish or black, with the apex of abdomen red- 

 dish ; elytra somewhat strongly punctured, with rather broad inter- 

 stices ; legs entirely testaceous ; our specimens appear to belong chiefly 

 to the var. scutellaris of Mulsant, in which the head and thorax are 

 entirely, and the scutellary region, sides and suture are broadly black. 

 L. li-lf mm. 



Marshy places, in moss and at roots of grass, beneath decaying seaweed, &c.; 

 local ; London district, not uncommon, Caterhani, Horsell, Forest Hill, Lee, Chatham, 

 Sheerncss, Hampstead, Darenth, Esher, &c.; Folkestone; Pegwell Bay ; Hunstanton; 

 Repton ; Northumberland and Durham district, on the sea-banks, not uncommon ; 

 not recorded from Scotland ; Ireland, near Waterford. 



This species appears to be closely related to S. Redteribaclieri, more so 

 even than S. suturalis (discoideus), with which Thomson compares S. 

 Redtenbacheri ; it is, however, broader and less elongate-oval than the 

 last-named species, and has the post-coxal foveae differently shaped ; from 

 /S. suturalis it may be known by its uniformly testaceous legs, the 

 thicker and finer punctuation of the under-side, and the colour of the 

 elytra which is darker, and has the light portions redder. 



S. haemorrhoidalis, Herbst. (analis, Rossi, nee F.; s.g. Pullus, 

 Muls.). Of a rather short and broad oval form, distinctly pubescent, 

 black, rather shining ; head, posterior portion of elytra and apex of 

 abdomen yellowish -red ; thorax finely punctured, with the anterior and 

 side margins broadly reddish-yellow in male, in the female with the 

 anterior margin narrowly, and the anterior angles broadly of the same 

 colour ; elytra rather strongly and unevenly punctured ; legs entirely 

 yellow. L. 1^-1 f mm. 



Male with the fifth ventral segment emarginate at apex and thickly 

 pubescent. 



By beating hedges, sweeping herbage, &c. ; often found in moss ; common and 

 generally distributed in the London district and in the south; less common in the 

 Midland districts, and not recorded from any of the northern counties or from 

 Scotland. It has been taken at Douglas, Isle of Man. 



* Since writing the above I have received a note from Mr. J. J. Walker, in which 

 he says that in the summer of 1875 he took a specimen at Whitsand B*y, Plymouth, 

 which is apparently referable to this species. 



