178 MORDELLID^. 



always deep, comparatively rather shorter and more convex behind 

 than in R. mutilaius ; legs darker than in the last-named species, with 

 the tarsi longer and more slender. 



Grantowu, Inverness-shire : Dr. Sharp and Mr. Bishop took fifteen 

 specimens in the summer of 1909 by shaking twigs and branches of 

 dead birch. Dr. Sharp seems a little doubtful as to whether the 

 insect is merely a variety of R, mutilatits, but describes it as new, as 

 all the specimens agree inter se, and none are intermediate. 



(EDEMERID.^. 



CBDEMERA, Olivier. 



CE. virescens, L. (Syst. Nat. ed. 12, p. 650; Muls. Col. de 

 France, Angustipennes, 149). Closely allied to (IJ. htrida,M.a,rsh.,hut dis- 

 tinguished by the fact that the hind femora of the male are distinctly 

 incrassate (but not sti'ongly so as in CE. nohilis, Scop.) whereas in the 

 last-named species they are simple. Mr. James Edwards, who recorded 

 the species as British (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxix. (2 Ser. xiv.) 1903, G-4) says 

 that as a rule the female is evidently larger than in (JE. lurida, and has 

 the raised line down the middle of the thorax much more distinct, but 

 that after a careful study of considerable material he is forced to the 

 conclusion that this sex of the two species cannot be separated with 

 certainty apart from the ma.les. L. 6-7 mm. 



Central Norfolk, one locality only, but there not uncommon. The 

 species is widely distributed on the Continent from Norway and Sweden 

 to Italy and from England to Austria. 



MORDELLID^. 



MORDELLISTENA, Costa. 



M. (Mordellochroa) abdominalis, F. Mr. Champion (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. xxvii. (2 Ser. ii.) 1891, 287) describes the peculiar characters 

 of the sexes in this species (with figures) : in the male the apical joint of 

 the maxillary palpi is about three times as broad as long, deeply excavate 

 along the upper side within, with the upper and lower sides subpai-allel, 

 the tip rounded and the base subtruncate ; it maybe described as boai- 

 shaped (or rather like the somewhat elongate end of a golf " driver") ; 

 in the female it is oblong-ovate, rather narrow, with the apex obtuse. 

 In vol. xxxiv. (2 Ser. ix.) 1898, 128 et seq., Mr. Champion quotes the 

 sexual peculiarities of our British species of Tomoxia, Mordella and 

 Mo7-dellistena as described by Shilsky (Die Kiifer Europ. xxxi.). 



M. newaldeggiana, Panz. (Faun. Germ. 36). This name must 

 be substituted for M. brunnea, F., as it has five years' priority. 



ANASPIS, Geoffi-oy. 

 A. latipalpis, Schilsky (Die Kiifer. Eui-op. xxxi., No. 73, 1895). 

 Elongate, sericeous, testaceous, with the eyes and the apex of the 



