200 EHYNCHOPIIORA. 



B. Thorax not closely covered with scales, 

 and also furnished with very short hairs ; 

 colour very variable. 



a. Elytra oval with the humeral pro- 

 minences scarcely marked ; legs red ; 



(species maritime) P. CHBYSOMELA, 01. 



b. Elytra with the humeral prominences 

 well marked. 



a* Elytra scarcely broader at shoulders 



than thorax ; femora dark, tibiae red P. CONFLCENS, Steph. 



b* Elytra much broader at shoulders 

 than thorax ; femora and tibiae, uui- 

 colorous, dark P. CERVINUS, L. 



P. micans, F. (jnollis, Strom., sec Bedel). A rather large and 

 conspicuous species, black, clothed with narrow, hair-like, brilliant 

 coppery golden scales, antennae and legs red, club of the former some- 

 what darker ; head and thorax coarsely punctured, the latter rather 

 small, with the sides very slightly rounded; elytra large and ample, 

 somewhat gibbose behind, with comparatively strong, although very 

 narrow, punctured striae, colour of scales usually fiery -copper, but 

 sometimes greenish ; legs moderately long. L. 6|-8| mm. 



Woods and hedges ; on young birches, oaks, hazels, sallows, &c ; very local, but not 

 uncommon where it occurs; Mickleham, Darenth, Shooters Hill, Westerham, Beursted, 

 Chatham, Swauscombe Wood, near Gravesend ; Burnhaui Beeches; Glanvilles 

 Woottou ; Swansea ; Bewdley ; Bretby Wood, Repton ; Carlisle ; Northumberland 

 and Durham district; Scotland, Tweed, Clyde and Forth districts (Murray's Cat.) ; 

 Dr. Sharp, however, says that the species is unknown to him as Scottish, and that 

 lie is inclined to suspect an error in the determination (Scottish Nat., July, 1879). 



P. sericeus, Schall. Oblong, subcylindrical, black, clothed through- 

 out very thickly with rather dull round green scales, antenna? pale 

 testaceous, club usually dusky ; head with an impression between eyes, 

 thorax subtransverse, very slightly narrowed at apex, with an obsolete 

 central dorsal furrow ; elytra large, with finely punctured striae ; legs 

 pale testaceous, with the femora somewhat thickened, usually rather 

 dusky, and more or less clothed with green scales, armed beneath with 

 an obsolete tooth. L. 5-6| mm. 



Male narrower, with the posterior tibiae furnished with long pubes- 

 cence within towards apex, and the anterior armed with a small hook ; 

 fifth ventral segment slightly impressed transversely before the apical 

 margin which is rounded. 



Female with the anterior tibia? nearly simple and the posterior tibiae 

 sparingly pilose, fifth ventral segment conical triangular. 



On shrubs and trees (oak, hazel, willow, &c.) ; very rare; Kimpton, Hants 

 (Rev. G. T. Rudd) ; Kimpton, received from Mr. Reeks, taken June, 1875 (S. 

 Steven.-) ; Thruxtou (Reeks), also f rom Saunders (Champion); Stephens records that 

 he has found it near London, but that most of his specimens were received from the 

 vicinity of Bristol ; in woods near Swansea (Dillvvyu). 



