210 LTemiplera-fleteroptera. 
M. coleoptrata, Mall.— 3 brownish black, head, pro- 
notum, and scutellum black. Head short, transverse; 
antenne with the fourth joint longer than the third, and 
subequal to the second; pronotum transverse, with the 
sides nearly straight, not dilated or produced in front, but 
gradually rounded to the anterior collar, which is complete, 
but short ; surface transversely wrinkled ; anterior callosity 
smooth, behind which is a transverse impression, base 
sinuate ; elytra brownish, dull, clothed with very fine pale 
hairs; lateral margins rounded, reflexed; cuneus pitchy ; 
membrane pale smoky; legs brown. 
very short, oval, and convex, rather densely clothed 
with pale hairs. Head and pronotum more or less red, the 
latter short, without transverse impression, sides rounded 
in front, nearly straight behind; scutellum red; elytra con- 
vex, black, punctured, suture straight, like that of a beetle ; 
abdomen entirely hidden by the elytra; legs testaceous. 
oem. oe mm. 
Highgate Wood under dead leaves, Power ; Spridlington, 
Lincolnshire, Wollaston ; Barnet, Butler. 
M. inconspicua, D. § S—Much smaller than the 
preceding, and easily distinguished in the ¢ sex by its 
black colour, its proportionately thicker and longer antenne 
much longer head, longer more shining pronotum, which is 
scarcely wrinkled posteriorly, and has a much shallower 
transverse impression ; the base also is less sinuate, so that 
the scutellum appears smaller; the elytra are glabrous, and 
not finely pilose as in coleoptrata ; legs black, 
In the ? the pronotum has no transverse impression, 
the head is reddish at the base, and the abdomen is shining 
and glabrous, the elytra short, dull, only reaching on to 
the first segment of the abdomen; the entire insect, except 
the elytra, shining. 
L. $14 mm.; ? scarcely 1 mm. 
At the roots of grass on the sandhills, Southwold and 
Lowestoft; Weymouth, Blatch. 
