330 HETEROMERA. MELANDRYID.S. 



536 Dircjea Fabricius. 



2580 f variegata Fab. E. ii. 90. — Act. N. H. Paris i. pi. 10. f. 2. — Ste. 

 M. v. 36. — Fuscous ; head and thorax spotless ; elytra smooth, pale tes- 

 taceous, varied with fuscous ; body testaceous ; antenna pale testaceous. 

 (L. 3 1. ) Old trees : Windsor ? 



537 Hypulus Paykull. 



2581 Quercinus PL F. i. 252. — Ste. M. v. 37. pi. xxiv. f. 5. — Pitchy-red, 

 pubescent ; thorax dusky, with a deep fovea on each side at the base : 

 elytra dull red, with an arch at the base, an irregular band behind the 

 middle, not touching the margin, and the apex black : legs pale, antenna 

 dull, red. (L. 3-3^ 1.) Old trees: Darenth and Coombe woods; God- 

 stone; Wood Ditton, &c. : 5-6. 



538 Abdera Stephens. 



2582 bifasciata Marsh, i. 493. — Ste. M. v. 38. — Hy. biflexuosus Cur. vi. 

 pi. 253. — Pitchy-black ; pubescent ; finely punctured ; elytra glabrous, 

 with 2 testaceous-yellow waved bands, the broadest before, and the other 

 behind, the middle; legs and antennae pitchy testaceous. (L. \\-2 1. ) 

 Hedges : Ripley ; Southgate ; Highgate ; Wimbledon Common : 6. 



2583 4-fasciata Cur. to. 255. — Ste. M. v. 38. pi. xxiv. f. 6. — Black; 

 slightly pubescent ; mouth and labrum testaceous ; anterior and posterior 

 margins of thorax the same ; elytra with a waved testaceous band before 

 the middle, and a narrower flexuous one behind ; legs and base of antennae 

 pale testaceous, tip of the latter fuscous. (L. l^-l^ !•) Hedges: New 

 Forest ; Shropshire : 6. 



2584 f picea Ent. M. ( Walker) iii. 83. — Piceous ; shining, finely punctured ; 

 nearly glabrous ; eyes pitchy-black ; thorax tawny, disc pitchy ; legs tawny ; 

 antennae fuscous with the base tawny. ( L. 1 1 1. ) Near London : 6 ? 



539 Scraptia Latreille. 



2585 f fusca Lat. G. ii. 200. — Ste. M. v. 39. — Dusky brown ; obscure, 

 clothed with a fine villous down ; beneath darker and more glossy ; thorax 

 short, semicircidar ; elytra finely punctulated ; legs pale brown ; tibiae and 

 tarsi dull red. (L. If 1.) Near Windsor : 6. 



2586 nigricans Ste. M. v. 39. pi. xxiv. f. 3. — Dusky pitchy, with a fine 

 golden pile above ; thorax with an obscure fovea on each side of the base ; 

 elytra rather paler than the thorax, very finely punctulated ; legs entirely 

 pale testaceous ; antennae fuscous. (L. 1^1.) Gardens: Ripley: 7. 



540 Hallomenus Paykull. 



2587 fuscus Gyll. iv. 58. — Ste. M. v. 40. — Pitchy-brown ; pubescent ; 

 rugose punctate ; mouth, antennae, legs and limb of the elytra testaceous ; 

 thorax with a fovea on each side at the base. (L. 1-2 1.) London dis- 

 trict: 6. 



2588 flexuosus Pk. F. ii. 182. — Cur. x. pi. 474. — Ste. M. v. 426. — Tes- 

 taceous above ; nearly smooth ; the crown, middle of the thorax, the scutel- 

 lum, and 2 narrow, very much angulated bands on the elytra black. 

 (L. l|-lf 1. ) On fungi on willows : Cambridge; Peterborough: 5-6. 



2589 dimidiatus Ste. M. v. 426. — Brown-black ; slightly pubescent ; elytra 

 testaceous-brown, spotless, impunctate; thorax with 2 rather deep longi- 

 tudinal foveae at the base, near the hinder angle ; legs and antennae red- 

 brown. (L. 1.JL) North of England : 6. 



541 Orchesia Latreille. 



2590 micans HI. K. i. 135. — Ste. M. v. 41 Me. picea Pz. F. xvii. f. 17. 



— Above pitchy-brown, or testaceous, with a silken pile, finely rugose- 



