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extremity. Head brownish-black, densely punctate. Thorax 

 large, deep brown, densely punctate, only one-third broader than 

 long, as broad at the base as the elytra, narrowed in front from 

 the middle, rounded on the sides ; posterior angles pointed, a 

 little projecting behind, which makes the posterior margin 

 visibly sinuated on each side. Elytra oval, slightly acuminate, 

 densely punctate, without vestiges of striae, except the sutural ; 

 testaceous-brown, extremity blackish. Legs ferruginous. 



Resembles C. fumatus, but differs by having the antennse 

 longer, the elytra broader, and the posterior angles of the thorax 

 projecting a little behind, and its colour darker and con- 

 eolorous ; and covered with a fine silky pubescence, so that when 

 looked at from behind, a paler sericeous band appears to stretch 

 across the elytra. 



Not common. Has been taken near Berlin, in Thuringia, 

 Erlangeu, Switzerland, near Paris, near London, and in the. 

 south of England. I have not seen any examples taken in 

 Scotland. 



B. Antenna not heavily clubbed; middle tarsi of males rarely 

 widened. 



30. C. depressus, mihi. 



Breviter ovatus, postice attenuatus, ferrugineus ; an- Fig. 32.* 

 tennis subfiliformibus j thorace transverso, sub- 

 depresso, postice latiore, lateribv^ postice leviter 

 inflexis ; angulis posticis fere acutis ; elytris pal- 

 lidioribus, substriatis. 



Long. 1^ lin. 



Entirely of a pale ferruginous colour ; the elytra 

 paler, and the legs testaceous. The antennae are 

 slender, pale ferruginous ; first joint stouter and 

 longer than the second ; third joint nearly twice as long as the 

 second ; fourth nearly as long as the third ; fifth and sixth joints 

 nearly equal in length — if there is any difference, the fifth 

 is longer than the sixth, but this is scarcely perceptible ; they 

 are also all of the same breadth, and each is shorter than the 

 third ; the seventh is a little longer than the sixth, and broader ; 

 the eighth is only half as long as the seventh, but scarcely 

 narrower; the ninth and tenth are nearly equal in length, 

 rather broader than the seventh ; the eleventh is nearly round, 

 but with a slight obtuse point at the tip. Head brown, pretty 



* The sinuations of the thorax and prominence of the slioiilders are 

 rather exaggerated in this tigure. 



