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antennfe black, and the joints of the tarsi darker at apex; thorax very 

 finely and the elytra finely strigose transversely, the former with the 

 posterior angles acute ; antennas slender with the third and fourth joints 

 equal and even and joints 6-10 obconical ; palpi broad and strongly 

 securiform, epipleura? of the elytra long. 



Male with the third segment of the abdomen strongly produced in 

 the centre and furnished with two subparallel appendages or lacinite 

 which are approximate at the base and reach the apex of the abdomen ; 

 fourth segment of the abdomen very short, simple, fifth foveolate in 

 the middle with the apex slightly emarginate ; tarsi somewhat dilated 

 at the apex, with the first joint almost twice as long as the second. 

 L. 21-3 mm. 



Mr. Champion (Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxiv. (2 Ser. ix.) 1898, 101) says 

 that two well-marked species have hitherto been confused under the 

 name Anaspis subfestacea, Steph. : one of these is correctly named, the 

 other is the species described above. The two species are apparently 

 almost equally common in Britain and are both probably widely dis- 

 tributed. The male characters of the two insects are veiy diflerent as 

 will be seen from the description of the characters of the abdominal 

 segments of A. suhtestacea given under the genus Anaspis (Brit. Col. 

 V. 80) ; the tarsi moreover are more strongly dilated and the apical 

 joint of the palpi in both sexes is distinctly broader. 



A. costae, Emery (Mon. Mord. supp. p. 33; Schilsky, Die Kafer 

 Europ. xxxi. No. 80). Mr. Champion {I.e. p. 102) points out that the 

 insect known in British collections under the name of A.Jiava, L., var. 

 thoracica, L., is really the A. coske of Emery and Schilsky and must 

 bear that name. The following is a translation of Schilsky's description : 



Elongate, fuscous, with fuscous pubescence, with the palpi, head, 

 thorax, base of antennae and legs testaceous, and joints 7-10 of the 

 antennte moniliform in the male, submoniliform in the female. Male 

 narrower, with the third segment of the abdomen slightly produced in 

 the middle, with two lacini?e which are approximate at the base, slightly 

 curved internally, exceeding the middle of the fifth segment, the fourth 

 segment a little shorter, emarginate in the middle with long appendages, 

 fifth segment incised at apex, bilobed. L. 2|-3|- mm. 



The species is local but widely distributed ; several varieties are 

 enumerated by Schilsky, including one with a reddish humeral spot, 

 which is not uncommon in Britain. 



In A.Jlava, L., the abdomen is without lacinise ; the species does 

 not apparently occur in Britain, nor the var. thoracica, Winery ; A. 

 thoracica, L., is a diflerent insect altogether. 



A dark variety of A. tnaculata, Fourc, occasionally occurs. INIr. 

 Champion has taken it at Ashtead and Woking, and Mr. Donisthorpe 

 has taken it at Enfield. It may be known by the moniliform outer 

 joints of the antennje. 



A. hudsoni, Donisthorpe (Ent. Record, xxi. 1909, 60). Elongate, 

 somewhat boat-shaped, broadest in the middle, black, clothed with very 



