SAMOUELLF/S 



punctured. The female of this species is black, 

 shining; the head, thorax and elytra are covered 

 with deep and coarse punctures, the head has two 

 raised tubercles placed near each other on the front. 



Length from 10 lines to 1 inch 2 lines. 



Mr. W. Mac Leay established the genus Dorcus, 

 the characters of which he gave in his valuable work 

 the Horse Entomologica;: this book is now, unfor- 

 tunately for the student, very rare and difficult to ob- 

 tain, as nearly the whole impression was consumed 

 by fire at his publisher's, soon after the appearance 

 of the second part : in this work, Mr. Mac Leay 

 considered the female as another species, and gave 

 the name of tuberculatus , which he afterwards cor- 

 rected. 



Some years since, on digging into the stump of a 

 decayed oak, in a lane at Charlton in Kent, in the 

 month of June, we met with as many as seventy-six 

 specimens, and nearly an equal proportion of each 

 sex, which were just ready to emerge into active life. 

 At the same time we took also a dead and an old 

 specimen of the female, which it is possible was the 

 parent of the whole brood. 



