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hairs ; head rather finely and irregularly punctured, eyes large, antenne 
feebly serrate, dark; thorax a little longer than broad, narrowed 
slightly in front, impressed before and behind middle, sparingly and 
rather strongly punctured on disc, thickly and somewhat rugosely at 
sides ; elytra elongate, four times as long as together broad, somewhat 
depressed, thickly, irregularly, and somewhat rugosely punctured; legs 
slender, femora dark, tibiz testaceous, tarsi fuscous or fusco-testaceous. 
L. 4-45 mm. 
Male with the head together with eyes broader than thorax, and the 
antenne half as long as the body; fifth ventral segment of abdomen 
depressed in middle and emarginate at apex. 
Female with the head a little narrower than thorax, and the antennz 
reaching a little beyond the base of the thorax, with the fifth joint 
double as large as those before and after it; the posterior tibie and tarsi, 
also, are more or less fuscous. 
By sweeping herbage and beating low shrubs, especially in lanes and woods ; not 
uncommon and rather generally distributed in the London district and the South of 
England and certain Midland districts; I know, however, of no locality further 
north than Repton, near Burton-on-Trent. 
D. oculatus, Kies. This species was introduced by Mr. Crotch, who 
states that the males may be distinguished by their large globose eyes, 
the space between which is much narrower than in D. flavipes, and that 
the females have the base of the antenne and the anterior coxe tes- 
taceous, whilst in the same sex of D. flavipes only the second joint of 
the antenne is testaceous, the eyes, also, in this sex being less developed; 
the thorax also in D. oculatus is said to be longer and to be without the 
central furrow which is traceable in D. flavipes, and the fourth joint of 
the tarsi is much shorter and narrower than the third, whereas in the 
last-named species it is only slightly shorter and narrower. L. 4-43 mm. 
By sweeping herbage, and beating shrubs, in woods, &c.; rare; Darenth Wood ; 
Cobham Park; Chatham ; Cowley ; Wigmore, Kent; Sherwood Forest ; Mr. Crotch’s 
original specimens were taken by Mr, Wollaston in Lincolnshire, probably at Sprid- 
lington, near Lincoln. P 
There seems to be a considerable doubt admissible regarding this 
species, which is identified by Crotch with the D. cowalis of Mulsant 
and the D. plumbeus of Lliger; it is very hard to separate it by the de- 
scriptions, and the distinctions are more or less comparative and some- 
what variable: Mr. Gorham informs me that he is not sure of the species, 
and I am glad to find that such an authority on the Malacodermata has 
found the same difficulty that many others have experienced, 
D. wrosus, Kies. (plumbeus, Muls., nec Miill.; eratus, Steph. ; 
subeneus, Thoms. ; plumbeo-niger, Goeze). Very like the two preceding 
in general shape, and also resembling them in pubescence and punctua- 
tion, but easily distinguished by the dark tibiew, the legs having only the 
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