RHYZOBIUS. — CACICULA. 319 



latter black. (L. 1 1.) Hedges: London district ; Bottisham ; Crwmlyn 

 Burrows : 6. 



2515 frontalis Fab. E. i. 381. — Ste. M. iv. 394. — Sc. didymus Herbst. 

 C. vii. pi. 116. f. 2. — Somewhat hemispheric, black ; head reddish- 

 yellow, or black, with the mouth and labrum pale ; anterior angles of 

 thorax sometimes ochreous ; elytra ample, each with an oblique, ovate, 

 round red spot within the margin, beneath the humeral tubercle ; legs 

 testaceous, the hinder thighs, or the base of all, black. (L. 1 1.) Grassy 

 places : London district ; Swansea : 6-7. 



2516 marginalis Gyll. iv. 199 Ste. M. iv. 395. — Somewhat hemispheric; 



black ; head entirely, or labrum alone, testaceous ; thorax with the ante- 

 rior angles more or less broadly testaceous ; elytra each with a large some- 

 what 3-angular red spot at the base ; legs testaceous, base of hinder thighs 

 sometimes dusky. (L. 1 1.) Hedges: Ripley: 7. 



2517 analis Fab. E. i. 378. — Pz. F. xiii. f. 3. — Ste. M. iv. 395.— 

 Somewhat ovate ; black ; head and sides of the thorax more or less 

 broadly reddish-yellow ; elytra ovate, shining, with the apex more or less 

 indeterminately testaceous-red ; tip of abdomen and edges of some of the 

 preceding segments, with the legs and antenna?, testaceous-red. (L. 1-1^1.) 

 Hedges : Ripley ; Hertford, &c. ; Bottisham : 6-7. 



2518 discoideus Fab. E. i. 377. — Herbst. C. viii. pi. 116. f. 6.— Ste. M. 

 iv. 395. — Somewhat ovate ; black ; slightly pubescent ; elytra red-brown, 

 the base and margins black ; legs testaceous-red, thighs sometimes black ; 

 antenna?, palpi, and mouth testaceous. (L. ^ 1.) On firs: Hertford; 

 Ripley ; Southend ; Dalmeny : 4-8. 



2519 limbatus Kirby. — Ste. M. iv. 395. — Somewhat ovate, black, slightly 

 pubescent ; elytra bright chestnut-red, the suture and the entire margin 

 deep black ; legs pitchy-black. (L. \-\ 1.) Firs: Hertford, and Suf- 

 folk: 6. 



2520 atriceps Ste. M. iv. 396. — Somewhat ovate ; head dusky-black ; 

 thorax red-brown ; elytra very slightly pubescent, entirely pale, and legs pale 

 testaceous; body beneath pitchy-testaceous, with the apex paler. (L. ^ 1.) 

 Hedges : London district : 6. 



502 Rhyzobius Stephens. 



2521 Litura Fab. E. i. 353. — Ste. M. iv. 396. — Co. aurora Pz. F. xxxv. 

 f. 5. — Slightly glabrous ; shining, testaceous-red ; red, or testaceous, 

 sometimes pitchy ; eyes black ; elytra finely punctured, mostly with an 

 interrupted blackish band placed rather behind the middle ; legs pale 

 testaceous; abdomen black. (L. 1-1^1.) Roots of grass, &c, widely 

 distributed: 0. 



503 Cacicula Megerle. 



2522 pectoralis Fab. E. i. 443. — Pz. F. lxxviii. f. 5. — Ste. M. iv. 397. 

 — Red, shining ; eyes, breast, and anterior part of the abdomen black ; 

 thorax sometimes with 2 obscure dusky spots ; elytra somewhat punctate- 

 striate, spotless ; antenna? pale. (L. 1-1^1.) Roots of grass ; generally 

 distributed : 0. 



2523 scutellata Fab. E. i. 443. — Cur. iii. pi. 144. — Ste. M. iv. 398. — 

 Shining red ; eyes black ; elytra faintly punctate-striate, each with a spot 

 near the scutellum, and 2 other spots, one of them about the middle of the 

 outer margin, and the other behind the middle of the suture, black ; 

 breast and base of the abdomen black ; legs red, ( L. 1 $ 1. ) Local : 

 Norfolk; Plaistow marshes ; Lincolnshire: 4-7. 



