MOTOXIU-E. — ANTHICUS. ']S 



Pale testaceous, with a silken pile: head flavescent^ immaculate: thorax rufo- 

 testaceous, produced anteriorly into an acute, coarctate, horn, serrated on 

 each side at the apex: eli/tra entirely of a deep pitchy or reddish-Z)/acA., im- 

 niacidate : body beneath piceous : legs and antennae rufo-testaceous. 



Of this remarkably distinct species I possess a single example 

 from the Marshamian Cabinet ; of its locality 1 am not aware. 



Genus CCCCLXXIII. — Anthicus, Fabricius. 



Antennae rather longer than the thorax, 11-jointed, slightly incrassate towards 

 the apex, basal joint slightly robust, second small, subglobose, third a little 

 elongate, fourth to tenth rather shorter, subconic, terminal ovate-acuminate. 

 Palpi maxillary elongate, with the apical joint large, securiform ; labial 

 with the same joint incrassate : head large, nutant, united by a slender 

 neck with the thorax, which is oblong, subcordate, narrower than the head, 

 with the base and apex truncate, and the sides dilated: eyes small: elytra 

 considerably broader than the thorax, with the apex rounded, and the disc a 

 little convex: legs elongate, slender; tibia, with minute spurs at the apex; 

 tarsi with the penultimate joint slightly bilobed. 



The insects of this genus are very active and lively, and are 

 usually of plain and nearly uniform colours : they are prominently 

 distinguished from Notoxus by wanting the porrected process in 

 front of the thorax, exclusively of other characters as noticed in the 

 generic definitions; and from the three following genera they may be 

 known, by having the head united to the thorax by a slender neck, 

 as well as by the general habit of the insect. 



Sp. 1. Antherinus. Niger, griseo-pubescens, elytris j'asciis duabus J'emigineis 

 obliguis irregularibus, tarsis fusco-testaceis. (Long. corp. 1§ — 2 lin.) 



Me. Antherinus. Linne. — Martyn Col. pi. 39. f. 3. — An. Antherinus. Steph. 

 Catal. 254. No. 2521. 



Black, clothed with a fine griseous pubescence, thickly and very finely 

 punctulate : thorax oblong : elytra more deeply punctured than the head 

 and thorax, but the punctures remote, with two oblique ferruginous fascia;, 

 one from the shoulders to the suture, and the second behind the middle : 

 body very obsoletely punctulated beneath : legs piceous, with the tibite 

 towards the apex and the tarsi pitchy-testaceous : antennse pitchy-fuscous. 



Var. /3. With the second fascia on the elytra wanting. 



The fasciae on the elytra vary considerably in width, and in some instances the 

 apex of the elytra has only a minute black spot on the sutural edge. 



Not uncommon in grassy and flowery hedges within the metro- 

 politan district in June and July ; also found in other parts of the 



