80 HETEROMERA. 



it also has the thorax a little broader, and the antennae more evidently 

 moniliform, but these are scarcely appreciable differences. 



I have at some length discussed the question of A. tlioracica, as it 

 will serve to show the difficulties that are to be found in the genus 

 Anaspis ; if any student would thoroughly take up the question and work 

 it, he might probably add three or four more of the recognized species 

 belonging to the genus to the British list. 



A. subtestacea, Steph. Testaceous or fusco-testaceous, with the 

 apex of the antennas, or the whole of the antennae, except base, and also 

 the abdomen, and sometimes base and apex of elytra dark ; occasionally 

 the abdomen is in part or wholly testaceous ; pubescence fine and rather 

 close ; antennae rather long, not moniliform, with all the joints evidently 

 longer than broad; thorax nearly as long as broad, very finely sculp- 

 tured, posterior angles not obtuse, almost right angles ; elytra rather 

 long, somewhat pointed at apex, very finely strigose transversely, the 

 sculpture being nearly as fine as on thorax ; legs testaceous. L. 3-3| 

 mm. 



Male characters peculiar, the second ventral segment of the abdomen 

 being furnished with two linear appendages, which are very long; from the 

 apex of the third segment there arises a vertical plate furnished with a 

 tooth beneath, and divided behind into two lobes which reach the apex 

 of the fifth segment ; the fourth segment bears two short appendages, 

 and the fifth is deeply cleft and bilobed ; the anterior tarsi are dilated. 



Ou flowers, &c. ; local, but not uncommon in many districts ; London district 

 rather common, Sevenoaks, Darenth Wood, Croydon, Caterbam, Sbirley, Coombe 

 Wood, Forest Hill, Birch Wood, West Wickliam, Crohambnrst, &c. ; Suffolk; 

 Hastings; New Forest; Glanvilles Woottou ; Devon; South Wales ; Tewkesbury; 

 Knowle ; Buddon Wood, Leicestershire ; Repton, Burton-on-Trent ; Dunham Park, 

 Manchester; Northumberland and Durham district, rather uncommon (Bald); not 

 recorded from Scotland or Ireland. 



A. maculata, Fourc. (melanopa, Forst. ; obscura, Marsh. ; bipunetata, 



Bon. ; pallida, Marsh.). Pale testaceous, clothed with fine silky yellowish- 

 grey pubescence, with the apex of the antennae, breast and abdomen 

 black ; the scutellary region, a common sutural spot at apex and a round 

 or transverse patch on the disc of each elytron before middle are more or 

 less plainly fuscous ; in some specimens the spots before middle are alone 

 present (v. bipunctata, Bon.), and in others all the spots are absent (v. pal- 

 lida, ; Marsh.) ; the antennae are considerably thickened towards apex, with 

 the penultimate joints moniliform and transverse or subtrans verse ; thorax 

 a little broader than long, very finely sculptured, with the posterior 

 angles almost right angles ; elytra very closely and finely strigose trans- 

 versely ; legs pale testaceous. L. 2^-3 mm. 



Male with the anterior tarsi dilated, and with the third segment of 

 the abdomen produced in middle and furnished with two appendages 

 which are approximate, and reach the apex of the abdomen; fourth seg- 

 ment short, emarginate in middle ; fifth segment foveolate in the middle 

 and slightly emarginate at apex. 



