140 Mr. Spencr’s Monograph of the Genus Choleva. 
of Fabricius, I accidentally discovered in looking over the Banksian 
cabinet from which he described that species. | 
2. CuoLEv A agilis. 
C. oblongo-ovalis, nigra, supra piceo-brunnea, antennis pedibus- 
que ferrugineis; thorace postice latiori. 
Ptomaphagus agilis. Dig. Käf. Preus. 88. 2. 
Catops agilis. Fab. Syst. Eleuth. ii. 565. 6? 
Tritoma dubia. Fab. Ent. Syst. i. b. 506. 5? 
Catops fuscus. Gyll. Ins. Suec. i. 281. 5. 
Helops fuscus. Panz. Faun. Germ. 18. 1?? 
. Long. Corp.?ilin. Lat.1ilin. 
Habitat ——— Mus. D. Kirby, Wilkin, £. nostr. š 
DESCR. CORPUS paulò brevius et latius quàm in precedente, pube griseo-falvescente 
paulò densiori, sub lente obsoletè rugulosum, 
CaPur nigro-piceum, lave. Labrum Mandibulæ Palpique flava. Antenne ferru- 
gineæ, apice saturatiores, eädem feré strueturä ut in precedente, sed articulis 
pauló brevioribus et crassioribus. 
Truncus. Thorax piceo-brunneus, disco saturatiore ; sub-convexus, ex transverse 
subquadratus, longitudine pauld latior, ab apice feré ad basin sensim dilatatus, 
sed apud basin ipsam iterum pauló angustatus, ita, tamen, ut basis latior quàm. 
_ apex maneat; posticé rectus, angulis obtusis rotundatis. Scutellum subacumi-- 
natum. Coleoptra ovato-oblonga, apice obtusé rotundata, thorace feré tripló 
longiora, piceo-brunnea, stris septem obsoletis in singulo Elytro a basi ad 
apicem excurrentibus, quàm in precedente obsoletioribus. Pectus et Post- 
| pectus piceo-nigra. Pedes ferruginei. 
Var. B. flavo-testacea tota. An specimen immaturum ? 
Choleva testacea. Latreille Gen. Crust. et Ins. ii. 26. 2. 
Illiger, Latreille and Gyllenhal are the only authors to whom 
I can refer with confidence as having described this species. I 
have little doubt that it is the former's Ptomaphagus agilis, with 
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