328 HETEROMERA. — MELANDRYIDJE. 



Darenth Wood ; Sydenham ; Catnberwell ; Cambridge ; Parley Copse ; 

 Leominster : 6-7. 



2568 castanea Marsh, i. 223. — Ste. M. v. 29 Rusty-red, or chestnut, shin- 

 ing ; head brownish ; head and thorax punctured ; elytra punctate-striate, 

 interstices slightly punctulate ; legs and antenna? pale testaceous, the latter 

 very long. (L. 4^-5 1.) On flowers ; widely distributed : 6-7. 



2569 fulvipes Fab. E. ii. 19. — Ste. M. v. 29. — Ci. Luperus Herbst. A. 

 pi. 23. f. 10. — Shining black, sometimes with a brassy tinge : mouth, 

 labrum, anterior ridge of the forehead and antennae dull red, the latter long ; 



f. elytra punctate-striate, interstices punctured ; legs entirely testaceous-red ; 

 tip of antenna? rather dusky. (L. 4-5 1.) Hedges: Hertford; Darenth; 

 Birchwood, Dover ; Norfolk : 6-7. 



2570 f nigrita Fab. E. ii. 20. — Ste. M. v. 426. — Deep black ; antenna? 

 and legs concolorous ; elytra slightly striated. (L. 4| 1). Netley : 6. 



2571 murina L. ii. 602. — Mart. C. pi. 16. f. 32. — Ste". M. v. 30. — Black, 

 above opaque, clothed with a delicate silken pile ; base of antenna?, legs, 

 and elytra testaceous-yellow, the latter faintly striate; tip of antenna? 

 fuscous. (L. 2£-3 1.) 



Var. ? Ci. fusca Marsh, i. 223. — Pz. F. xxv. f. 19.? — Ste. M. v. 30 



Elytra, and sometimes the thighs, black-brown. Hedges : London dis- 

 trict ; New Forest ; Cambridge ; Wood Ditton ; S. Wales ; Dumline ; 

 Dalmeny : 6. 



529 Omophlus De Jean. 



2572 f Amerina? Cur. xiii. pi. 622. — Black, shining; minutely punctured; 

 elytra testaceous, slightly pubescent, and with some faint punctured strife ; 

 tibia? slightly chestnut at the tip ; tarsi pale chestnut. (L. 3^-4 1.) On 

 the thrift : Clesil Bank, Isle of Portland, and near Weymouth : 6-8. 



(530 Megischia Solier.) 



(2573 f curvipes De Jean. C. p. 235. — Ste. M. v. 426 Black ; elytra 



testaceous; tibiae slightly bent; tarsi chestnut. (L. 4 1.) Introduced 

 in mistake for Omophlus Amerina?.) 



531 Cteniopus Solier. 



2574 sulphurea L. ii. 602 Mart. C. pi. 17. f. 44. — Ste. M. v. 31.— 



Pale sulphureous- yellow ; tarsi and antennae dull red ; tip of the latter and 

 of the mandibles, as also the maxillary palpi, brownish ; elytra very obso- 

 letely striated. (L. 4-4£ 1.) 



Var. ? Ci. bicolor Fab. E. ii. 18. — Pz. F. xxxiv. f. 8. — Ste. M. v. 31. — 

 Black ; mouth, elytra, and legs sulphureous ; thorax fuscescent, or black ; 

 tarsi obscure. On flowers : Dover ; Norfolk : Devil's Ditch, Gog-magog 

 Hills, &c, Sketty-burrows, S. Wales; &c. : 6-8. 



Fam. 66. LAGRIlDiE Westwood. 

 dxxxii. Lagria Body oblong, hairy : tho. cylindric, much narrower than the 

 elytra,- the latter ample, soft: tibia, slender, spurless ; tarsi spongy beneath. 

 <J with the apical joint of antenna? very long. 



532 Lagria Fabricius. 



2575 hirta L. ii. 602. — Ste. M. v. 33. — Cur. xiii. pi. 598 Black, 



slightly shining, villose ; elytra broad, pale testaceous, thickly rugose- 

 punctate; 6* narrow and with the terminal joint of the antenna? elongate. 

 (L. 3-4^ 1.) Flowers and hedges : generally distributed : 6-8. 



Fam. 67. MELANDRYID.E Leach. 

 dxxxiii. Melandrya Body elongate-ovate, narrowed in front, flattish : ant. 

 short, bent, somewhat filiform : head nutant : tho. somewhat trapeziform : 



