38 HETEROMERA. [Cliuocara. 



each side at base ; elytra testaceous with the apex and irregular, bands 

 and markings black, sculptured as thorax ; legs yellow or ferruginous, 

 with the femora often darker ; the sculpture of this and the preceding 

 species almost presents the appearance of very minute scales. L. 3|-4 

 mm. 



Male with the first four joints of the anterior tarsi dilated, and the 

 spurs of the anterior tibiae more distinct than in female. 



Under bark, in fungoid growths, and in rotten wood of decaying beeches, &c. ; it 

 has also been found on the flowers of the white-thorn ; very local and, as a rule, rare ; 

 Chatham (taken by Mr. Champion and Mr. J. J. Walker in plenty) ; Cobham Park ; 

 Tonbridge; New Forest; Sherwood Forest (Blatch) ; Scarborough (Lawson) j the 

 species is very active in its movements, and in consequence is rather difficult to cap- 

 ture ; the only specimen I have ever seen alive (under bark in the New Forest) was 

 gone immediately before I could secure it. 



HAXiXiOBXENirS, Panzer. 



This genus contains eight or nine species, of which three are found in 

 Europe, four in North America, and one in Sierra Leone ; our single 

 .British species much resembles Orcliesia in general appearance, but may 

 be at once known by the small spurs of the posterior tibiae ; the third 

 joint of the antennse, which are filiform, is very large, being longer than 

 the first joint ; the last joint of the maxillary palpi is somewhat securi- 

 form the thorax is deeply impressed with a fovea on each side at 

 base ; the elytra are elongate with traces of striae, and the legs are slender 

 and rather elongate. 



H. humeralis, Panz. (binotatus, Quens. ; bipunctatiis, Payk.). 

 Elongate, depressed on disc, narrowed behind, clothed with fine and 

 silky fuscous-yellowish pubescence, and with extremely close and fine 

 subrugose punctuation, as in Clinocara ; head brown or reddish-brown, 

 antennse moderately long, filiform, with the two basal joints narrower 

 than the succeeding, colour brownish with the base clear yellow ; thorax 

 reddish-testaceous with two longitudinal dark bauds, or spots, not reach- 

 ing base or apex, sides strongly narrowed in front, base slightly sinuate 

 on each side and furnished above each sinuation with a short longi- 

 tudinal impression, posterior angles right angles ; elytra as broad at base 

 as base of thorax, brown or fusco-testaceous with a pale reddish spot at 

 each shoulder ; under-side reddish-testaceous, with the breast darker ; 

 legs pale yellowish-red, first joint of posterior tarsi at least as long as all 

 the others taken together. L. 4-5 mm. 



In fungoid growth on old trees, in rotten willow, &c. ; has been taken on palings ; 

 rare; Forest Hill; Lee; Cliarlton (old fence, S. Stevens, and twenty specimens taken 

 by Lewis and Power, Sept. 3, 1860) ; Northumberland and Durham district, rare, 

 Long Benton ; Scotland, rare, in Trametes pint, &c., Tay and Dee districts. 



CONOPAXiFUS, Gyllenhal. 



This genus may be at once known by its 10-jointed antennse, which 

 are elongate and filiform with the second joint small and the third about 



