198 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF BRACIIF.LYTRA. 



pilose, black, with the margins of the segments broadly red, the 

 latter colour gradually increasing in breadth to the penultimate, 

 which is entirely red, the whole of the apical segment deep black ; 

 legs and antennae yellow, with the apex of the latter dusky. 

 (Long, corp, 2 lin.) 



Taken at Weston; February and March, 1837. 



Genus. — Cypha, Kirbtj. 

 Sp. Cyp. biguttata. 



Black, shining, sparingly punctured, clothed with a golden pubes- 

 cence : head immaculate : thorax very shining, with the margins 

 yellow : elytra finely punctured, with a large bright red spot on 

 each posteriorly towards the suture : abdomen with the two apical 

 entirely, and the hinder margins of the other segments, rufo- 

 testaceous, the extreme edge of the penultimate white : legs 

 rufous : antennae and palpi yellow : antennae and legs, especially 

 the tarsi, hairy. (Long. corp. | lin.) 



Taken at Weston; March, 1837. 



Genus. — Oxytelus, GrawnJiorst. 



Sp. Oxy. biarcuatus. 



Black, shining, head as broad as the thorax, sparingly punctured, 

 with an impressed line between the eyes, and a transverse one at 

 the back : mouth rufous : thorax with the sides rounded, the 

 margins entire, disk smooth, with two arcuated coarsely punc- 

 tured longitudinal fovese in the centre, the sides depressed and 

 deeply punctured : elytra convex, coarsely punctured throughout, 

 rufous, with the suture dusky : abdomen ovate, black, with the 

 apex rufous : legs testaceous : antennae dusky, with the basal 

 joint red. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Taken near Weston ; 1836. 



I have lately taken an insect, which I very much wished to 

 have included in this coratnunication ; it belongs, I believe, to 

 a genus of Pselaphidcv, described under the name of Batrisus, 

 by Aube ; but at present I have no means of satisfying myself 

 on this point. 



Weston, Nov. 27, 1837. A. Matthews. 



