278 Mr. Curtis's Descriptions of some rare 



Antenna ^\Qxi, inserted before the eyes, capitate, hairy, 11-jointedj basal 

 joint stout, hatchet-shaped, 2nd obovate, 3rd as long and slender, 6 

 following obovate-truncate, increasing in diameter, 10th and 11th form- 

 ing a compressed club, the former semiorbicular, the latter suborbicular. 

 Labrum broad, short, ciliated and pilose. Mandibles broad at the base, 

 tridentate, with a hairy membi-anous internal margin. Maxillce with 

 a long, slender, hairy internal lobe and a broad but shorter external one 

 terminated by an oval brush of hairs. Palpi somewhat long, stout 

 and 4-jointed, basal joint small, 2nd semiovate, 3rd transverse, 4th the 

 longest, ovate-conic, slightly truncated. Mentum trigonate-truncate. 

 Lip small suborbicular. Palpi short and stout, attached to contiguous 

 scapes, biarticulate, basal joint semiovate, 2nd ovate-conic, slightly 

 truncated. 



1. nitida, Payk.— cylindrica, Oliv. v. 2. No. \%. pi. 2./, 16. 



Black, shining, punctui-ed : elytra castaneous-black, with faintly punc- 

 tured striae, antennae and legs ferruginous : 1| to 2 lines long. 



For specimens of this recent discovery in Britain, I am indebted 

 to Mr. Trueman, who took them the end of June in Sherwood Forest, 

 Nottinghamshire, in the trunk of an old oak tree. 



Fam. ELATERID.E. 



Genus 309**. Aplotarsus, Step. Limonius Esch. 



24. maritimus. Antennae with 3rd and 4th joints of equal length : terminal 



joint of palpi obovate, compressed and subtruncate : head margined in 



front : tarsi tapering, somewhat depressed, black, shining, with short 



ochreous pubescence and minutely punctured : thox-ax with the sides 



very convex and the basal angles very acute ; spine of sternum long 



and slender : elytra broader ; depressed, inclining to slate black, firmly 



striated, apex entire : tarsi piceous or reddish brown : length 2 lines, 



breadth f . 



This very distinct species does not perfectly associate with the 



Aplotarsi, as will be seen by comparing the above description with 



that in British Entomology, of A. aterrimus, plate 694, but I do not 



find any other group better adapted to receive it. I first discovered 



A. maritimus under rejectamenta at Broughton, Lancashire, 30th of 



June 1827, and Mr. Little has since taken it at Raehills. 



Genus 309°. Cardophorus. 

 •iV>. formosus, Curt. Black, shining, variolated; thorax entirely rufous ; 

 elytra with strongly pimctured striae, having a slightly curved bright 

 ochreous fascia near the base and a straighter one beyond the middle : 

 legs ferruginous : length 3 lines, breadth 1 J. 



The only specimen I have seen of this beautiful species was taken 

 from the roots of some celery in a cottage garden near Wentworth 



