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Helianthemum vulgare, growing on a limestone hill, under some old 
Scotch fir trees, but also sparingly from T hymus serpyllum, Brachypo- 
dium sylvaticum, Chenopodium vulgare, and Origanum vulgare), I have 
no possible room for doubt as to its specific value, and accordingly de- 
scribe it as follows :— 
MELIGETHES PICTUS, sp. n. [Sectio B, Hrichson ; unguiculis ad basin 
denticulatis|. Breviter ovatus, convexus, nitidus, confertim sat fortiter 
punctatus, niger, fulvescenti-pubescens, elytris singulatim rufo-maculatis, 
antenms pedibusque rufo-testaceis, femoribus, tibiis intermediis posticisque 
externe, nec non tarsorum gracilium apicibus, piceis; tibiis anticis acute 
serratis, dentibus apicem versus gradatim majoribus. 
Long. 1—14 lin. (Anglic.). 
The red spot on the disc of each elytron at once suggests WL. dis- 
coideus, Er., the only other recorded European species exhibiting a 
similar and permanent coloration (though IL rufipes, lumbaris, and 
@neus occasionally have lurid elytra) ; but JZ. pictus may at once be 
known from discoideus by the sectional character of its denticulate 
claws, its shorter and more convex form, less close punctuation, more 
strongly and closely denticulated anterior tibie, &c. In size and punc- 
tuation it recals medium individuals of 2. brunnicornis, Sturm; but 
its legs are somewhat longer and less robust (the tarsi especially being 
longer and more slender) than in any of our recorded species, giving 
the insect almost the facies in that respect of a Brachypterus. Its 
average smaller size, rather narrower form, much stronger punctuation, 
and color differences, and the more even and gradually increased serra- 
tion of its anterior tibis, of which the teeth are sharper and not so 
Stout, readily separate it from AZ. solidus, Ill., the only other recorded 
British species of its section. 
The antennz are testaceous, with the basal joint and the apex of the club more or 
less pitchy, the second joint being the lightest in color. 
The vertex is shining, flat, evidently emarginate in front, and very closely and 
somewhat indistinctly punctured ; the mandibles are pitchy-brown, 
The thorax is very convex, slightly (if at all) wider behind than the base of the 
elytra, quite one-third broader than long, distinctly rotundate and very deli- 
cately margined on the sides, which are not so gradually contracted from the 
base towards the front as in solidus (so that the greatest width does not seem 
to be near the base, as in that species), but are nevertheless considerably 
rounded off in front towards the anterior angles, which are much depressed : 
3 the apical margin is widely emarginate, the excavation being rather more de- 
cided than in solidus: the hinder margin has a wide but slight and very gently 
rounded projection over the scutellar region, and is more rounded off to the 
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