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Rather broad, dull red, slightly shining : head black, narrower than the thorax, 

 suborbiculate : thorax subtruncate in front, narrowed behind, the disc with 

 a faint channel, deepest behind, and two fuscous clouds : elytra pale imma- 

 culate, rufo-testaceous, rather wider than, and about as long as, the thorax : 

 abdo7nen dusky, with the base pale, about twice as long as the thorax : legs 

 pale testaceous : antennse rather short, subfiliform, pitchy-testaceous, with 

 the base pale, the terminal joint conic-ovate. 



Of this conspicuous insect I possess a single example, captured by 

 myself near Hertford. 



Sp. 100. lucida. Rufa, Icevis, capite pectore elytris angulo externo abdominisque 



cingulo nigris, antennis nigris basi rujis. (Long. corp. li — 1^ lin.) 

 Al. lucida. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal 265. No. 2694. 



Rufous, shining, with a slight pubescence : head orbiculate, with the mouth 

 produced, a little narrower than the thorax, black: palpi and mouth rufous : 

 thorax very obsoletely punctured, the disc anteriorly fuscescent, the angles 

 rounded, and scarcely ntiargined ; posteriorly with a somewhat transverse 

 impressed fovea : elytra longer and a little wider than the thorax, fale 

 rufous, with outer apical angles broadly dusky : abdomen twice as long as the 

 elytra, rufous, with the 4, 5, and base of the 6 segments black ; apex pilose : 

 legs rufous : breast dusky : antenna; longer than the thorax, pubescent, 

 slightly thickened to the apex, black, with the two basal joints 7'vfous. 



Differs from Al. lunulata, with which insect it has been confounded, by 

 having the thorax wider, and by having that part with the head and elytra 

 scarcely punctulated. 



Somewhat rare : found in Norfolk and Suffolk, and near Hert- 

 ford. " South-creek." — Rev. T. Skrimshire. " Devonshire."" — 

 Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 101. concinna. Sublinearis, rufa, capite elytris angulo externo, abdominisque 



cingulo atris, antennis nigris. (Long. corp. 1§ lin.) 

 Al. conciima. Leach (.?) MSS. — Steph. Catal. 265. No. 2696. 



Sublinear, rufous, shining, slightly pubescent: head orbiculate, black; palpi 

 reddish : thorax scarcely wider than the head, subtruncate in front, rounded 

 behind : elytra dull rufous, slightly convex, with the outer apical angles dusky, 

 rather longer and wider than the thorax ; abdomen about twice as long as 

 the thorax, rufous, with the third and fourth segments black: legs pale 

 rufous : antennae black, with the apex incrassated, and the terminal joint 

 obtuse. 



Found in boleti near Hertford, not very rarely formerly, but of 

 late I have not taken many specimens. 



