294 Ml. E. Sauiulers' Si/iiopsis of Jhitish 



finely rugose, with a crenate central channel, and covered 

 with long hairs, especially in the <? ; abdomen shining, 

 elongate in the ^ , rather wider in the ? , but much 

 longer than in the species preceding ; apical segment in 

 the ? triangular and strongly punctured, flat above, and 

 covered with short golden hairs ; anterior femora in 

 the <? short and swollen, produced behind into a large 

 irregular 5-sided process, and with a sharp short spine 

 quite at the base ; anterior tibiffi in the ^ thickened, 

 with a large membranous patella extending from their 

 outer margin ; tarsi much dilated, interior claw very 

 long, bisinuate, and apiculate ; front legs in the ? 

 simple ; intermediate and posterior tibias strongly spinose 

 in both sexes. 



Length 13—15 mill. 



Common in sandy places. 



22. iKltavius, Schreb. Naturforsch. 20 Stiick. 98, 3, pi. 



ii. fig. 6 =patcUatns, Panz., Smith, Shuck., &c. 



Very like the preceding, but smaller, and at once 

 distinguishable by the simply punctured, not striate, 

 head and thorax ; the <? with the front femora produced 

 posteriorly into a flat, membranous, yellow, shining 

 process, with a narrow, almost hair-like spine at the 

 base ; coxae spined ; tibiae with the patellae striped Avith 

 white posteriorly. 



Length 11—13 mill. 



Common in sandy places. 



23. sciitcUaius, Schev. Naturforsch. 20 Stuck. 89, 6. 

 ^-- inerotus, Fab. Syst. Piez. p. 311, Dhb., Smith, &c. 



Very like ^jaiel^rtt^s, but rather smaller; both sexes 

 have the head and thorax duller, and more closely and 

 rugosely punctured; the prothorax without prominent 

 anterior angles ; the 3 may be known at once by the 

 shape of the anterior femora, the flattened process of 

 which in this species is somewhat triangular, with its 

 external basal angle produced and dentate ; whereas in 

 the preceding species it is rounded ; the patella of the 

 tibiae is also differently marked, the stripes from the 

 margin continued and irregularly united on the disk, 

 and the external claw is flattened and somewhat twisted ; 

 the ? has the basal segment of the abdomen unspotted, 

 the abdomen itself wider in proportion to its length, 



