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I. Punctuation coarser ; colour black S. UKUIRPHXRICUS, L. 



II. 1'uuctuution finer ; colour testaceous 8. OBBICULABIS, Patu. 



S. hemisphacricus, L. Broad oval, suborbicnlar, somewhat nar- 

 rowed in front and behind, black, or pitchy black, shining, rather convex 

 but depressed on disc, clothed with thin and scanty greyish pubescence ; 

 head moderately largo, antennae dark, with base yellow, second joint as 

 broad as first and not much shorter ; thorax very short, narrowed in 

 front, very finely punctured, with sides often yellowish, base sinuate ; 

 elytra rather strongly and closely punctured ; legs more or less obscurely 

 testaceous, with femora darker ; tibiae with very long spurs. L. 2^- 

 3f mm. 



Male with the last ventral segment of abdomen slightly emarginate at 

 apex, female with the same segment rounded at apex. 



In marshy places, by beating sallow, alder, &.c. ; local ; London district, not un- 

 common, Barnes, Weybridge, Woking, Aylsham, Tonbridge, &c. ; Windsor; Wrox- 

 ham (Norfolk); Pegwell Bay, Deal; Hastings; New Forest; Glanvilles Wootton ; 

 Devon ; Swansea ; Knowle ; Sutton Park ; Lichfield ; Droitwich ; Bromsgrove ; 

 Repton ; Scarborough ; Withington and other loculities in Cheshire ; Bowdon, near 

 Manchester ; not recorded from the Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotlaud, 

 Tery rare, Sol way district only ; Ireland, near Dublin. 



8. orbicularis, Panz. (pdllescens, Steph.). Closely allied to the 

 preceding species, of which it has been by some authors considered a 

 variety ; apart, however, from its colour, which is pale fuscous or 

 fiisco-testaceous, it may be known by the closer and finer punctuation of 

 the elytra, and rather thicker pubescence ; the interstices between the 

 punctures of the 'elytra, moreover, are slightly rugose. L. 2|-3 mm. 



Marshy places, by beating sallows, sweeping herbage, &c. ; rare ; Wimbledon, 

 Esher, and Merton (Power) ; Batterseu Fit-Ids (Stephens) ; Dagenham, Essex ; 

 Sheerness (Walker); Gravesend ; Deal; Rundown; S pitch wick Park, Devon 

 (Stephens). 



EUBRIA, Germar. 



The genus Eubria, which by some authors has been regarded as 

 forming a separate tribe Eubriina, or even family Eubriadae, is easily 

 distinguished by having the antennae serrate from the third joint inclu- 

 sive, the second joint being minute, and by the strong engraved lines on 

 the elytra ; only one species is known, which occurs very rarely in 

 Britain, and is uncommon on the Continent ; E. marchantue, Duv., is 

 now generally regarded as a variety of E. palustria. 



H. palustriB, Germ. Orbicular, convex, black or dark pitchy brown, 

 rather shining, extremely closely and finely punctured; head rather 

 small, deeply sunk in thorax, eyes moderately prominent, antenna rather 

 long, pitchy with base lighter ; thorax double as broad as long, narrowed 

 in front, posterior margin very slightly sinuate ; Scutellum large ; elytra 

 broadest behind middle, very finely pubescent, with five deeply engraved 

 lines on each, the first of which reaches from base along scutellum and 



