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and strongly punctured ; elytra unicolorous red, or with the margins 

 darker, with deep punctured stria?, and very finely punctured interstices ; 

 legs red, tarsi pitchy, anterior femora with rather strong and sharp 

 teeth. L. 2f-3 mm. 



Male with the posterior tibiae slightly curved and the pygidium with 

 a central longitudinal furrow. 



On Scotch fir ; very local ; Scotland, Tay, Dee and Moray districts (Braemar, 

 Aviemore, Rannoch, lie.). 



A rubi, Herbst. Black, unicolorous, clothed with distinct and 

 evenly distributed, but scanty, greyish pubescence, which is closer on 

 the breast and thick on scutellum ; head with an impression on fore- 

 head; rostrum long, slightly curved, dull; antennae slender, reddish at 

 base, fuscous towards apex ; thorax broader at base than its length, 

 strongly narrowed in front, very closely punctured ; elytra with strong 

 punctured striae, interstices slightly convex ; legs elongate and rather 

 slender, black, with the knees and tarsi pitchy, all the femora with a 

 small tooth ; tarsal claws bifid. L. 2f-3| mm. 



Male with all the tibiae slightly curved. 



On various species of Jlubus and Rosa, especially brambles and dog roses; com- 

 mon and generally distributed throughout the greater part of the kingdom. 



A. comari, Crotch. Allied to the preceding, of which it has by 

 many authors been regarded as only a variety ; apart, however, from 

 its very much smaller size, it may be known by having the thorax much 

 less narrowed in front and almost subparallel, the first joint of the 

 funiculus of the antennae distinctly shorter and nearly as broad as long, 

 and the femora more strongly dilated in the middle and abruptly nar- 

 rowed before apex ; the elytra are often of a lurid or livid colour ^ the 

 species appears to occur in places and on a plant where A. rubi is never 

 found. L. 1| 2j mm. 



On Comarum palustre (Potentilla comarum, (The Marsh Potentil) ) : very local ; 

 Northumberland and Durham district plentiful ; Scotland, not uncommon in 

 murshy places in several districts; Ireland, near Waterford (Power); Rye (Ent. 

 Monthly Magazine, vi. 88) records it as found by himself and Dr. Sharp in damp 

 parts of small glens near Camachgouran, Perthshire ; the only southern record I 

 know of is Dover (C. G. Hall) ; it is, however, possible that this may refer to small 

 specimens of the ordinary type form, which occasionally occur. 



A Iritannm, Desbr. (piibes&ns ? Walton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 1844, 106; vide Eye, Ent Annual, 1870, p. 105). I can- 

 not make anything of this insect which has been retained in all 

 our catalogues; I have never seen a specimen, nor can I obtain any 

 satisfactory information regarding the species : the following is "Walton's 

 description : " Ovate, testaceous, cinereo-pubescent. Head small, round, 

 testaceous, punctulated and pubescent ; eyes globose, brown -black ; ros- 

 trum rather longer than the head and thorax, slender, a little curved, 

 punctulated, deep rufous, shining, and more or less fuscous at apex. 



