6 ADEPHAGA. 



//. tardus of Gyllenhal (Ins. Suec. ii. 120, 33) is synonymous with this 

 insect the name ought to have priority. 



The following table, drawn up by Mr. Newbery, may be found useful : 



I. Posterior femora having numerous (12-14) 



setigerous punctures on the internal margin. 

 Thorax strongly trans verse, form short, broad 

 and convex, antennae short, yellow-red, elytra 



nearly as shining in the female as in the male H. Froelichi, Sturm. 



{tardus, Panz. wee Brit. Cat. ) 



II. Posterior femora having fi-om three to 

 eight punctures. 



i. Antennfe and palpi having the middle 

 joints spotted v?ith black, form broad 

 and convex, elytra nearly as shining in 

 the female as in the male . . . H. serripes, Quens. 



ii. Antenn?e and palpi entirely yellow- 

 red, form narrower and but little 



convex, male shining, female dull . H. rufimanus. Marsh. 



{tardus, Brit. Cat.) 



ANISODACTYLUS, Dejean. 



A. nemorivagus, Duft., Faun. Austr. ii. 79, S4. Closely allied to 

 A. hinotatus. Fab., but plainly smaller, and with shorter elytra; palpi 

 ferruginous ; thorax a little more contracted behind, and with the 

 posterior angles pi-ojecting in a somewhat sharper tooth ; the base is 

 finely and less rugosely puntured, and has an impressed stria on each 

 side ; the elytra are only a third longer than together broad, and are 

 more strongly sinuate behind ; legs entirely red. L. 8 mm. 



Taken by Mr. Champion on the heaths about Woking and Chobham ; 

 it has also occurred at Bournemouth. Dr. G. AV. Nicholson has found 

 it at Cromer. 



The typical form of this species had not been recorded from Britain 

 until introduced by Mr. Champion in 1896 (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxii., 

 2 Ser. vii. 253) ; it was taken by him in company with the variety with 

 the legs entirely black, or black with reddish tarsi ; this variety, which had 

 not up to that time been noticed on the Continent, is the A. atricornis 

 of Stephens, and the var. atricornis of A. hinotatus, Dej., of our cata- 

 logues, the latter determination being in error. Mr. Champion adds in 

 his note the following distinctive characters for separating A. hinotatus 

 and A. nemorivagus : 



Marginal sulcus of the prothorax extending rather broadly to the 

 anterior angles ; elytra with the sides and apex broadly and distinctly 

 pubescent in both sexes, the sides moderately sinuate near the apex ; 

 legs black, or black with the tarsi reddish {hinotatus, Fabr., rujitarsis, 

 Steph., and calceutus, Steph.) or entirely reddish {spuo'caticornis, 

 I^eJO c . . hinotatus, Fabr. 



