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120 Mr. E. Saunders’ Synopsis-of 
Popops. . 
1. inunctus, Fab. Fig. Dougl. & Scott, Brit. Hem. 
i. fig. 8. 
Of a dirty brown colour, with dark punctures; head 
slightly darker than the rest of the body; thorax with a 
triangular-shaped process at each anterior angle; scutellum 
with a pale tubercle on each side at the base. 
Length 3 lines. 
Moss, roots of grass, &c.; not uncommon. 
CYDNIDZ. 
I. Head and thorax with long scattered hairs, clypeus 
not notched .. ais 3c ar An -» Geotomus, 
II. Head and thorax not hairy, clypeus more or less 
notched oe o> oe oe as »» Sehirus. 
GEOTOMUS. 
1. punctulatus, Costa. Fig. Costa, Cent. II. dec. 6, 
pl. v. 
Dark pitchy-brown, almost black, except immature 
specimens, which are testaceous. ‘Thorax posteriorly, 
scutellum and elytra, closely punctured; membrane dusky, . 
pale at the base; head and thorax with long projecting 
hairs round their margins. 
Length 2 lines. 
White Sand Bay, Cornwall; under stones and Fro- 
dium. 
SEHIRUS. 
1. Entirely black .. ble st oe oe +. morio. 
2. With white margin and white spots on the elytra. 
a. A small white spot on the disk of each elytron.. diguttatus. 
b. A large white spot on the shoulder and a second 
above the membrane .. ee oe .- bicolor. 
3. Margins only white. 
a, About 4 lines long, steel-blue .. oe o. dudius. 
b. About 2 lines long, blue-black .. ee e+ albomarginatus. 
1. bicolor, Linn. Fig. Panz. Faun. Germ. 32, 11. 
Black, with a bluish tinge; a spot on each side of the 
thorax in front, a large spot on each shoulder somewhat 
of a kidney-shape, and a spot at the apex of the corium 
white; membrane pale; tibize white externally on their 
basal half. 
Length 3—33 lines. 
Common in sandpits and by sweeping. 
