42 COLEOPTERA. 



to Kiesenwetter, it imitates by folding its limbs and simu- 

 lating death. 



From Miss Hopley's account the insect would seem to be 

 decidedly luminous, even in the male. 



44. Malthodes guttifer, Kies., Linn. Ent. vii ; Ins. 



DeutschL, iii, 543 ; D. Sharp, Ent. M. Mag., vol. v, 

 p. 19. 



Dr. Sharp records this species as rare, and taken by him- 

 self at Galloway, Strathcannich, and Gareloch-head. I have 

 a single specimen from Rannoch. 



It is black, delicately pubescent, with pitchy or brownish- 

 testaceous legs, the breast and abdomen partly testaceous, 

 and the elytra yellow at the apex ; the thorax is transverse 

 and margined all round. 



The real characters, however, are in the apical segments 

 of the abdomen in the male, which would require more room 

 to describe than can be here afforded ; and of which, indeed, 

 the descriptions would be useless, unless they were accom- 

 panied by those of the same parts in all our other species. 



45. Malthodes misellus, Kies., 1. c, 551 ; D. Sharp, 



loc. cit. 



Dr. Sharp records the capture by himself in May, 1867, 

 of half-a-dozen male specimens of this insect at Dumfries, 

 and the existence in the collections of Mr. Crotch and myself 

 of specimens which he thinks must be attributed to a species 

 unknown to him, if they be not females of M. misellus. My 

 example was taken at Rannoch. 



It is black, with the mandibles and knees sub- testaceous, 

 and the abdomen partly yellow ; the thorax is sub-quadrate, 

 with the anterior margin rotundate, and the anterior angles 

 slightly prominent. 



