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in the ? ; rostrum reaching to the anterior cox; prono- 
tum much widened posteriorly, its sides rounded, anterior 
margin with a scarcely perceptible collar; elytra punctured, 
membrane complete in all our species; legs simple; canal 
of the odoriferous sac very long and curved towards the 
apex. I have largely drawn from Dr. Reuter’s works for 
the characters of the species. 
(2) 1. Hind tibie black or piceous . : : . NIGER. 
(1) 2. Hind tibizw pale ochreous. 
(4) 3. Larger, head as long as wide, pronotum in 
front not half as wide as at the base . MAJUSCULUS. 
(3) 4, Smaller, head transverse, pronotum in front 
more than half as wide as at the base . MINUTUS. 
T. niger, Wolf:—Black, shining, elytra more or less 
pale. Head much wider than long, antenne pilose, in the 
$ much thickened and somewhat flattened, second joint 
thicker than the third and fourth, pale, third about as long 
as the fourth, fourth often pale; in the 2 the antennz are 
scarcely thickened and are pale except the basal joint ; pro- 
notum black, anterior margin more than half as long as the 
base, sides nearly straight, narrowly reflexed in the ¢, disc 
shining, clothed with fine short hairs, with a transverse 
shining callosity in front, rugosely punctured across the base ; 
scutellum shining, punctured ; elytra rather strongly punc- 
tured, ochreous in the ¢, with the cuneus and sometimes 
the apex of the corium darker, in the ? very variable in 
colour, sometimes quite black, sometimes as in the ¢ ; 
legs pitchy, anterior tibize and apex of the anterior femora 
pale. 
L, 14-2 mm. 
Common. I have taken it generally in heathy places ; 
Chobham, Woking, Tunbridge Wells, Southwold, Herne 
Bay, Ilfracombe ; Bournemouth, Chesil Beach, Dale; Nor- 
folk, Hdwards ; Battle, Butler ; Oxshott, Billups. 
T. majusculus, feut—Much larger than the pre- 
ceding, with which it cannot well be confounded, the 
thinner antennz and pale tibie distinguishing it at once. 
