Mr. Babinglon o)i Dronius. 81 



drato : elytris fuscis, disco duplici seric punctatis ; antennis 



pedibusque testaceis. 

 Longitude corporis 3, latitudo 1 lin. 

 D. agilis. Dej. Spec. Col. i. 240. Steph. III. (M.) i. 21. Aud. 



et BrulU. Hist. Ins. iv. 183. 

 Car. agilis. Fab. Syst. Eleut. i. 185. 

 Leb. agilis, var. a. Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 184. 

 Car. 4-maculatiis, var. d. e. g. Sch. Sijn. Ins. i. 218. 

 /3. Car. atricapillus. Panz. xxx.y. 9. 

 Leb. agilis, var. b. Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 184. 

 y. D. fenestratus. Steph. III. (M.) v. 367. Steph. Nom. ed. ii. col. i. 

 Car. fenestratus. Fab. Syst. Eleut. i. 209. ? 

 Car. arcticus. Oliv. iii. 97. t. 12. f. 145. 

 Leb. agilis, var. e. Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 184. 

 Car. 4-maculatus, var. c. Sch. Syn. Ins. i. 218. 



Oblong ; head and thorax reddish, the latter neai'ly square, rather 

 narrower behind, with the hinder angles somewhat prominent ; 

 elytra dark brown, with two series of slightly impressed dots 

 upon each, one between the 2nd and 3rd, and the other be- 

 tween the 7tli and 8th stria? from the suture. 



In var. /3. the head is dark brown. 



Var. y. has a pale reddish spot on the anterior part of the elytra, 

 and sometimes one at the apex ; the head also is dark. I cannot 

 suppose this variety to be the C. fenestratus. Fab., which, from all 

 the continental specimens that I have seen, from his description, and 

 from the figure in Sturm's Deuts. Faun. vii. t. 168, appears to have 

 a truly fenestrated spot nearly in the centre of each of the elytra, and 

 to be a perfectly distinct species. I have no doubt that the insect 

 described by Mr. Stephens, as quoted above, is only a variety of 

 D. agilis, as I have captured specimens of this species which, when 

 alive, had a pale mark such as he describes, but after death could 

 hardly, if at all, be distinguished from the other specimens taken in 

 their company. 



This insect is not uncoinmon under the bark of trees. 



2. D. meridionalis. Dej. 



Oblongus ; capite thoraceque ferrugineis aut fuscis, thorace trans- 

 verso, angulis posticis rotundatis ; elytris fuscis, linea e punc- 

 tis parvis impressis ; antennis pedibusque testaceis. 



Long. 3, lat. 1 lin. 



D. meridionalis. Dej. Spec. Col. i. 242. Steph. III. (M.) i. 16. 



Car. agilis. Panz. Faun. Ixxv./. 11. .'' 



