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Similar in size and form to B. Urtice ; black, shining, closely punctate, and clothed 
with a cinereous pubescence. Thorax a little narrower than the elytra; sides rounded, 
and with a slight angle at the middle, nearly equal in breadth in front and behind, 
posterior angles obtuse. Elytra a half longer than the thorax. Legs, antennz, and 
mouth rufous; the club of the antennz piceous. 
The deeper punctuation and close cinereous pubescence are the most distinguishing 
characters in this species. The only specimen I have seen is in the Berlin Museum, and 
was brought from Sardinia. 
6. BRACHYPTERUS PALLIPES. 
Affinis B. fulvipedi, Erichs., leviter punctatus et tenuiter pubescens, niger, thorace piceo, 
elytris parum cupreo micantibus; thorace lateribus rotundato et postice explanato ; 
labro nigro; antennis pedibusque pallide testaceis, clava antennarum obscuriore. 
Long. $ lin. 
Habitat in Algeria. 
Nearly allied to B. fulvipes, Erichs., but rather smaller. The thorax with the sides 
rounded and more expanded posteriorly, and only beginning to be rounded-in at the very 
base, while in B. fulvipes the rounding-in commences at about a quarter of its length 
from the base. 
From Algeria. 
7. BRACHYPTERUS LABIATUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 232 (1843). 
B. Urtice similis, minor, niger, nitidus, parce punctatus, tenuiter pubescens; elytris 
ceneis; labro, pedibus antennisque testaceis, his clava nigra. Long. $ lin 
Habitat in Sardinia. 
Very similar to B. Urtice, but scarcely more than half its size. It is black, shining, 
sparingly punctate, sparingly pubescent. The elytra with a slight brassy tinge. The 
labrum, the legs, and antennae testaceous, except the club of the latter, which is black. 
The punctuation of the thorax is rather more distinct than that of the elytra, while in 
B. Urtice it is about equal in both. 
The only specimens I have seen are now in the Berlin Museum, and were received from 
Sardinia. 
8. BRACHYPTERUS MERIDIONALIS. 
Kiister, Kaf. Eur. xv. 38 (1848). 
“ B. niger, nitidus, planiusculus, tenuiter griseo pubescens, subtiliter punctatus; elytris 
subtilissime transversim rugulosis; antennis piceo-nigris, clava pedibusque rufo- 
piceis. Long. $ lin., lat. $ lin. 
* Habitat in Hispania." 
I have not seen this species; but Küster says that it is flatter than its allies, that 
the pubescence allows the shining surface to appear through it, and that the elytra are 
marked with transverse acicular markings,—characters by no means confined to this 
