8 HETEROMEEA. [Pedininci* 



PEDININA. 



Eleven genera and about one hundred and ten species belonging to 

 this tribe are found in Europe, but only one genus and one species occur 

 in Britain ; they are by some authors included with the Opatrina, but 

 differ in having at least the anterior tarsi of the male pubescent and 

 not spinose beneath ; in other points the two tribes very closely resemble 

 each other. 



HELTOPATHES, Mulsant. 



In this genus the maxillary palpi have the last joint securiform, and 

 the antennae robust and moro or less thickened towards apex ; the pos- 

 terior femora are moderately long, and the posterior coxa3 are broadly 

 distant ; the anterior tibiae are compressed and rmich dilated ; upwards 

 of fifty species have been described, of which about thirty are found in 

 Europe, and the remainder in Northern and Central Asia, China, and 

 Algeria. 



The larva of H. gibbus very closely resembles that of Crypt.icus guisquilius, and 

 does not require a separate description, as it only differs in being slightly broader, 

 and in having the head, legs, and ninth segment of abdomen ferruginous ; it is found 

 in sandhills. 



K. g-ibbus, F. (Olocratcs gibbus, Muls.). Oblong-crval, convex, 

 black, rather shining ; head moderately large, closely and distinctly 

 punctured, antennae short, moniliform, pitchy red ; thorax transverse, 

 with sides slightly rounded, and narrowed behind, closely punctured, 

 with obsolete impre.- sions on disc ; elytra with punctured strise, and 

 broad coarsely punctured interstices, the alternate ones being more or 

 less strongly raised ; the sculpture of the elytra is often somewhat 

 rugose ; legs stout and robust, pitchy black or pitchy red, anterior tibiae 

 dilated. L. 6-8 mm. 



Male with the central portion of the abdomen slightly impressed at 

 base ; anterior tarsi with the three first joints dilated and tomentose 

 beneath. 



Sandy places on tlie coast ; locally common ; Southend ; Lowestoft ; Harwich ; 

 Deal; Dover; Isle of Wight, Sundown, &c. ; Portsmouth; Chesil Beach; Dawlish 

 and Exmouth ; R'irnham, Somerset; Weston-super-Mare; Swansea; Manchester, 

 general, on the sandy coasts ; Isle of Man ; Scotland, very rare, Solway and Clyde 

 districts ; Ireland, Newcastle, co. Down, and Portmarnock. 



OPATRINA. 



The members of this tribe are distinguished by their excised clypous, 

 small labrum, short and stout antennae which are thickened towards 

 apex, and dilatedanterior- tibia 1 , as well as by the spinose under surface 

 of all the tarsi ; as above mentioned, they are closely allied to the 

 Pedinina ; ten genera are found in Europe, containing nearly fifty 



