248 MR. A. MURRAY'S MONOGRAPH OF THE FAMILY OF NITIDULARLE. 
—Á by the brownish-reddish, sparing, slightly finer P: and the broad 
thorax." 
From Spalato in Dalmatia. 
19. BRACHYPTERUS CINEREUS. 
Erichs. in Germ. Zeitschr. iv. 231. 3 (1843). Sturm, Deutschl. Faun. xv. 24. 3. taf. 91. fig. A (1844). 
Erichs. Naturg. Ins. Deutschl. iii. 131. 3 (1848). 
Cateretes cinereus, Heer, Faun. Col. Helv. i. 413. 9 (1841). 
Cercus pulicarius, Latr. Gen. Crust. et Ins. ii. 15. 1. (Dej. Cat. 136, ed. 1837.) 
Plumbeo-niger, confertissime punctatus, dense cinereo pubescens, antennis pedibusque 
anterioribus rufis. Long. 2-14 lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Europa. 
Distinguished from the foregoing species by its colour, which, although black like 
them, has a sort of leaden lustre, and by having longer and dense grey pubescence, which 
gives it a hoary appearance readily recognizable. Its sides are less rounded, and the 
posterior angles of the thorax do not project so much behind and are more obtuse. 
Found over most of Europe, but not in Britain. 
20. BRACHYPTERUS ANTIRRHINI (Chevr.). 
B. cinereo affinis, major et paulo longior, plumbeo-niger, densissime cinereo pubescens, 
confertim punctatus, convexus; antennis pedibusque anticis et mediis rufo-piceis. 
Long. 1} lin., lat. $ lin. 
Habitat in Algeria. 
Closely allied to B. cinereus, but larger and more closely clothed with cinereous pubes- 
cence, and with the middle as well as the anterior legs red. 
From Algeria. I have received a single specimen from M. Chevrolat, which I have 
placed in the British Museum. 
(Subgenus BRACHYLEPTUS.) 
i alii: Remarques sur sa Collection de Coléoptéres Russes, in Bull. Soc. Imp. Mose. xviii. 54 
(1845)*. 
Thorax plus minusve rotundatus, haud elytra amplectens. Elytra brevissima, humeris prominentibus. 
Abdomen sine segmentulo anali in utroque sexu. 
The essential characters of this subgenus are the rounded thorax not embracing the 
elytra, and the elytra very short and with very prominent shoulders. All the species 
* Count ky proposed a new genus under this name for his species B. canescens and for Strongylus : 1 
tinctus, Mann., taking as his characters the shortness of the elytra and the more globular form of the club of the 
antennee. The latter character, however, is an error. Neither of the species he mentions has the club of the antennse 
globular; on the contrary, it is constructed on the same fashion as in all the rest of the Brachypteride, forming an 
elongate club similar to the club of Hercules, aud not like a ball or plate on the end of a stick as in most of the other 
Nitidularie. The club in B. canescens is, no doubt, a little more dilated than in the others, but has still the elongate 
character of the club of the Brachypteride. But, although these characters will not suffice to characterize the 
Section, the division seems good, and suffieiently recognizable from the other characters above given. 
