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and very little longer than the preceding. Elytra much longer than 

 the thorax; closely, finely and evenly punctured throughout. Abdomen 

 sparingly and finely punctured. The thorax black beneath, the legs 

 and anterior coxse testaceous. 



In the male the two basal joints of the anterior tarsi are strongly 

 dilated, the intermediate tibise are dilated at the apex, and have the 

 apical spur very long, and the intermediate tarsi have the basal joint 

 flattened, and gradually widened towards the middle. 



Falkirk and Berwickshire (Mr. Hislop), Edinburgh (Mr. Sharp), 

 Holme Bush, Coombe "Wood, Hampstead, and Eeigate. Barer than 

 the preceding. 



4. — POBMOSUS, Orav. ; Uric, loc. cif., 271, 4. 



2i lin. Slender, rufo-testaceous, shining. Head black, with the 

 mouth testaceous; antennae very long, brown, with the two basal joints, 

 and the apical joint, testaceous. Thorax almost rectangular behind. 

 Elytra not longer than the thorax ; sparingly, but strougly and con- 

 fusedly punctured. Abdomen black, with the hinder half of the fifth 

 segment, and the two apical segments entirely, rufo-testaceous. Thorax 

 beneath, and legs, testaceous. 



In the male the basal joints of the anterior tarsi are very slightly 

 dilated, and the sixth segment of the abdomen beneath has a slight 

 triangular emargination. 



One specimen exists in the Stephensian collection, and the locality, 

 &c., given in the manual is, " Moss, &c., London district, and near 

 Swansea, 4, 6." 



(BoLiTOBius, proper.) 

 5. — ATKICAPILLIJS, Fah., JSrichs., loc. cit., 276, 14. 



2^-3 lin. Fusiform, shining. Head black, with the mouth pitchy; 

 palpi testaceous ; antennse with the point of articulation to the head, 

 the four basal joints, and the apical joint, testaceous, the remainder 

 pitchy-brown. The basal joint is very long, and the apical joint as long 

 as the two preceding. 



Thorax ample, polished, testaceous-red ; elytra flattish, ample, 

 rather longer than the thorax, b]ue-black, with a humeral lunulated 

 spot, reaching towards the suture, and the apical margins, whitish ; 

 depressed in the region of the suture, on each side of (and close to) 

 which, is a well defined row of about seven punctures. Abdomen 

 sparingly punctured, rufo-testaceous ; the apical segment black, but 



