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O. narrow, elongated and somewhat cylindrical ; dark piceons brown, and beset (on the limbs as well 

 as on the body) with an exceedingly long, very soft, woolly, and nearly erect paler pile. Head and 

 prothorax closely and roughly punctured : the funner broad behind : tiie latter wide in front and 

 constricted posteriorly ; with its anterior edge rufo-testaceous, and with indications of a small 

 and oblique tubercle on either side of its fore-disk. Elytra very distinctly seriate-punctate (the 

 punctures being large, regular and deep) ; with an oblique fascia (commencing at the shoulder 

 of each) at the base, a transverse one about, or immediately behind, the middle, and the apex 

 itself (the whole of them being interrupted along the suture) pale testaceous. Body beneath with 

 the abdomen rufescent. AnteniitB, pa/jji and leffs bright rusty-testaceous, — except the basal two- 

 thirds of the femora, which are extremely pale. 



A common insect throughout central and southern Eui-ope, and in the north of 

 Africa. In Madeira however it woukl appear to be rare ; occurring, nevertheless, 

 diu'ing the summer months, in positions far removed from each other. I have 

 not myself detected it in these islands : but I possess specimens from the col- 

 lection of the late Dr. Heinecken ; and others, -n hich were captured by the Rev. 

 E;. T. Lowe, in July 1851, at the Eibeiro Frio ; whilst three more have been 

 recently communicated to me by Mr. Leacock,— found in his house at Santo 

 Antonio, near Funchal. 



Genus 92. NECROBIA. 



Olivier, IJntom. iv. 76 bis (1795). 



Corpus parvum, oblongum, sat durum, pubescens, laete coloratura et punctatum : prothorace convexo 

 subquadrato-rotundato : alls amplis. Antenna prothoracis longitudine, clavatse, articulo primo 

 sat elongato robusto clavato, secundo brevi, tertio elongato, quarto ad octa\'um brevioribus lati- 

 tudine vix crescentibus, reliquis clavam magnam subovatam triarticulatam efficientibus (nono et 

 decimo breviusculis transversis, ultimo maximo crasso subquadrato ad apicem oblique truncato). 

 Lahrum corneum limbo coriaceo, transversum, antice bilobum pilosum. Mandibulce magnse 

 comese validse acutissimse, infra apicem dentat<e. Maxilla bilobfe, lobis submembranaceis apice 

 pubescentibus ; externa latiusculo ; interna breviore, paulo angustiore. Palpi filiformes ; maxil- 

 lares articulo primo parvo, secundo longiusculo, tertio breviore subflexuoso, ultimo elongato 

 fusiformi apice subacuminato ; labiates articulo primo parvo, secundo longiore, tertio elongato 

 fusiformi apice subacuminato. Mentum subquadratum, margiue antico producto. Ligula ampla 

 membranacea pilosa cordata. Pedes robusti subcontractiles : tarsis articulis tribus baseos sfibtus 

 oblique productis laciniisque spongioso-membranaceis, pilosissimis integris auctis (primo bre- 

 viusculo, secundo et tertio sub?equalibus, illo subcordato, hoc valde cordato), quarto minutissimo 

 inter tertii lobos recondito, quinto elongato clavato unguiculis in medio unidentatis munito. 



Necrobia is by some entomologists amalgamated with Conjnetes of Herbst 

 (established in 1792, and therefore the older name) ; but it seems to me to be more 

 natural to regard them as separate genera, since their antennge and palpi pre- 

 sent, both of them, sufficient characters to preclude the chance of confusing, inter 

 se, the species which severally compose them. Thus, the former are thicker, and 

 somewhat more abbreviated, in Necrobia than in Corynetes, and have their club 



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