7G HETEROMERA. 



inwards towards one another, and enclose between them an almost 

 circular smooth and shiny space ; these appendages reach quite to the 

 apex or extend a little beyond it; the anterior tarsi are not strongly 

 dilated. L. 2f-3i mm. 



On flowers, &c. ; taken in some numbers by Dr. Power at Ditton, Horsell, Cowlry, 

 and Claj'gate, and set aside by him as a new species under tbe name of A. variegata, 

 but never, apparently, described ; as, however, there is already a Mordellistena varie- 

 ffuta, F., I have, in order to avoid confusion, adopted a new name, and called it after 

 the late Mr. W. Garneys, a mutual friend of Dr. Power and myself, to whom I owe 

 the fact that I ever studied Coleoptera at all. Mr. Blatch has, I believe, taken it at 

 Tewkesbury. The only species I can find which may compare with this one is A. 

 nigripes, Bris., which also has the ventral appendages in the male strongly 

 divergent and curved, but in this species, as its name implies, the legs are entirely or 

 almost entirely black, the thorax is shorter and the appendages narrower. 



A. pulicaria, Costa (forcipata, Muls.). Smaller than any of the 

 other black species; in general appearance resembling a small A. 

 frontaUs, from which it may be known by its lesser size, and the 

 characters of the male, in which sex the laciniae of the third segment are 

 rather short, straight and parallel, and not curved inwards towards one 

 another at apex ; the male characters and the darker legs (the anterior 

 pair alone being mostly yellow, and the rest black) will distinguish it 

 from A. Garneysi, and the finer sculpture and less moniliform antennae 

 will separate it from A. rufilabris. L. If- 2f mm. 



On flowers, &c. ; locally common ; Shirley, Mickleham, Esher, Darenth Wood, 

 Chatham, Chingford, Dulwich, West Wickham, Cowley, &c. ; Dover-; Hastings ; 

 Brockenhurst; Glanvilles Wootton ; South Wales; Needwood, near Bur ton -on -Trent; 

 Repton ; Northumberland district, Wallington. In Dr. Power's collection there are 

 some very small specimens taken at Esher ; the species has not been recorded from 

 Scotland or Ireland, but has probably been overlooked in many localities. 



A. rufilabris, Gyll. (atra, F. ; s.g. Nasipa, Emery). Elongate, 

 subfusiform, black, or pitchy black, clothed with broAvnish or greyish 

 silky pubescence, with the labrum, base of antennas, and tibial spurs 

 testaceous, and the greater part of the anterior legs, and the posterior 

 pair in part, rufescent or pitchy ; antennas short, moniliform, more 

 strongly so in male than in female ; thorax about one-third broader than 

 long, evidently strigose, especially at sides, with the posterior angles 

 somewhat acute ; elytra distinctly and comparatively strongly strigose 

 transversely; in some specimens the legs are black or nearly black, and 

 in others the greater part of the head and sides of thorax are pitchy or 

 even reddish. L. 2|-3| mm. 



Male with the anterior tarsi with the first joint transverse, slightly 

 dilated, and the second and third joints strongly dilated, and with the 

 third ventral segment of the abdomen furnished in middle with two 

 nearly straight laciniae, approximate at base, and slightly divergent 

 behind, not reaching the apex of abdomen. 



Female with the tarsi not dilated, and the abdominal segments 

 simple. 



