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broader than any of the other segments; the segments are incised at the joints, but 
are very narrowly separated by membrane; the seventh and eighth abdominal 
segments are smooth on disc, and the last seginent is very short, without cerci; the 
pupa resembles in shape that of Conopalpus, bw has the “ styli motorii”’ smaller and 
not terminated by sete; the larva is found in dead oaks, beeches, alders, &e., in 
which it forms galleries, 
I. Thorax without central furrow ; elytra with strie reach- 
Iae roMmEebasetOlapexiry io.) celesuis will ceoita 20) SEMA CARAROIDES OZ: 
II. Thorax with distinct central furrow ; elytra smooth at 
base, but with deep strie behind. . . . . . =. =. =. M.vpuBrA, Schall. 
(canaliculata, F.) 
iM. caraboides, L. Black, elytra often with a bluish or greenish 
reflection, shining, clothed with short and fine black pubescence, palpi, 
apex of anteune, anterior tarsi entirely or at apex, and last two joints of 
the other tarsi, reddish-yellow ; head rather finely punctured, antenne 
comparatively short ; thorax alittle broader than long, strongly narrowed 
in front, broadest a little before base, moderately strongly punctured, 
with a strong basal impression on each side; elytra depressed, a little 
broader at base than thorax, often bluish or greenish, with somewhat 
obsolete striae, interstices convex, punctuation very close, subrugose ; legs 
long. L. 10-14 mm. 
In old willow stumps, &e.; local, but rather common in some districts ; London 
district, somewhat common, Norwood, Darenth Wood, Lee, Charlton, Dulwich, 
Sevenoaks, Belvedere, Tonbridge; The Holt, Farnham; Hastings; Dover; Holm 
Bush, Brighton ; New Forest; Portsea; Glanvilles Wootton ; Swansea ; Llangollen ; 
Knowle, near Birmingham ; Repton ; Norbury, Cheshire ; Dunham Park and Agecroft, 
near Manchester; Northumberland and Durham district; Ireland, Malahide near 
Dublin. 
M. dubia, Schall. (canaliculata, F.). Smaller on the average than 
the preceding, and more parallel-sided ; it may be known by the fact 
that the thorax has a deep central furrow, and that each elytron has 
four strong longitudinal strie or sulci which are obliterated at base, the 
interstices being convex and raised; colour black, with a bluish reflec- 
tion, pubescence short, black, punctuation fine on head and thorax, fine 
and subrugose on elytra ; antennz and legs-black, with the apex of the 
former and more or less of the tarsi testaceous or brownish-red. L. 10— 
12 mm. 
Under bark of decaying oaks, &c.; one of the rarest of the British beetles; I only 
know of three specimens ; one of these was taken by Mr. Bentley, as recorded by 
Curtis, flying near Brockenhurst in the New Forest in 1823; one was met with by 
Turner in the New Forest during the first season he collected, and is now in Mr. S. 
Stevens’ collection; and the third was sent with some beetles to Mr. Harris of 
Burton-on-Trent from the same locality, with a few common things, by Mr. Gulliver 
of Brockenhurst, in the autumn of 1877; the species, therefore, is evidently still to 
be found in its old locality, 
ANISOXYA, Mulsant. 
Two European species and one from North America belong to this 
