EKDOMYCIIIlJ.E. — LYCOPERDINA. 399 



«marginate in front, broadest behind : hodij ovate, glabrous : elytra free : 

 legs two : femora rather slender, not abruptly clavate. 



Only one indigenous species of this beautiful genus occurs in 

 Britain ; the genus differs from the following, not only by the form 

 of its palpi, but by having the antennse differently constructed, with 

 the ninth joint considerably longer than the eighth, and the basal 

 joints not remarkably dissimilar to each other : the species are gene- 

 rally of very gay and lively colovu's, and are furnished with wings, 

 and the mandibles are bifid at the apex. 



Sp. ]. coccineus. Sanguineo-ruber, thorace macul'i oblongd longitudinali, 

 elytroque singulo maculis duabus magnis nigris, antennis pedibuxque piceo-atris. 

 (Long. corp. !§ — 2| lin.) 



Ch. coccinea. Linne.—-Don. iv. pi. 111. f. 6, 6. En. coccineus— Steph. Catul. 

 240. No. 2408. 



Bright blood-red, shining above : head black, mouth with the labrum rufous : 

 thorax vrith a broad oblong black patch placed longitudinally in the middle, 

 leaving a wide space on each side sanguineous : elytra each with two large 

 round black spots on the disc, one before, and the other behind ; the middle 

 of the breast and the legs black, the joints of the latter and the tarsi ru- 

 fescent : antenna black, piceous at the base. 



Var. j8. With the thorax immaculate. 



Found in fungi and putrescent wood ; generally somewhat uncom- 

 mon within the metropolitan district, but found in all the woods : in 

 the autumn of 1816 the insect was literally crowded together by 

 thousands on a decayed alder stump at Coombe-wood, being taken 

 up by handsful, though in general it is a soHtary species. " Pad- 

 dington Canal in February, Copenhagen-fields, &c." — A. Cooper^ 

 Esq. " Bottisham, under rotten wood." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Seven- 

 oaks."' — A. H. Davis, Esq. " Langwith, near York."— FF. C. 

 Hewitson, Esq. " Gibside, sparingly." — G. Wailes, Esq. " New- 

 biggen-wood." — T. C. Heysham, Esq. "Not unfrequent on the 

 Crwmlyn sand hills."— L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Neath."— G. 

 Waring, Esq. " Sundridge, Kent." — Mr. Ingpen. 



Genus CCCCXXI. — Lycoperdina Latreille. 



Antennw gradually incrassated to the apex, the basal and two following joints 

 elongate, the first robust, the others slender, the five following very short, 

 the next slightly longer, the two following a little longer and stouter, the 

 terminal one subtruncate. Paljn filiform, the apical joint ovate : mandibles 



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