2. Nereis Payk. — inquisitor Herb, — Typhae Ahr. 4. 69. 

 Elongate-linear, fuscous, obscure-ferruginous above, densely 

 clothed with cinereous scales, rostrum and legs rufo-ferru- 

 ginous : elytra piceous before : 2^ lines. 



May, in a pond at Southgate ; June, upon aquatic plants, 

 Norfolk, Oxford, and Swansea. 



3. Arundineti Kirhy. 



Elongate-linear, piceous, obsfiure-ferruginous above, densely 

 clothed with cinereous scales, rostrum and legs reddish- 

 black : elytra mottled with cinereous scales : li line. 

 Probably only a small variety of Nereis : found in damp 



hedges in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire in June. 



Gen. 359. Notaris : with the anterior tibiaj only curved 



at the apex. 



4. -/Ethiops Fab. — badensis Linn.'^—ho\ome\a,n\\s Herb. var. 

 Very smooth shining black, head thickly punctured; ros- 

 trum with a few long irregular furrows formed by coarse 

 punctures: thorax strongly punctured, with a free space 

 down the centre : elytra very delicately punctured, with 8 or 

 9 deeply punctured striae on each : legs and antennae bright 

 castaneous, 3 basal joints of tarsi and apex of antennae 

 fuscous. 



For specimens of this rare insect I am indebted to G. A. 

 Wright, Esq., who took them, I believe, in Yorkshire. 



5. acridulus Linn., Panz. 42, 10. — punctum Fab. — resinosus 

 and rigidus Mars. 



Dull black, thickly punctured; thorax with large strong 

 punctures, a smooth elevated line down the middle, and 

 an ochreous dot on each side ; elytra with punctured striae, 

 mottled with greyish hairs and a whitish dot on each be- 

 yond the middle: antennae ferruginous, club fuscous; legs 

 more or less inclined to castaneous: 2f lines. 

 Very common all the year on aquatic cruciferous plants at 

 the sides of ditches and in marshes, Norfolk, Battersea, &c. 



6. bimaculatus Fab. 



Piceous, head punctured, thorax coarsely punctured, ci- 

 nerous with hairs, 2 ochreous lines down each side; elytra 

 mottled with cinereous hairs, granulated, with shallow strite 

 and a whitish dot on each beyond the middle : antennae and 

 legs more or less castaneous. 



Rare, on aquatic plants, Cumberland, Bristol, Norfolk, 

 Wimbledon Common, and on the borders of Crwmlyn Bog, 

 near Swansea, upon nettles and on the barren sand-hills; 

 Mr. Dillwyn and Mr. Jeffreys. 



For specimens of Listera cordata, Least Twayblade, I am 

 indebted to J. Walton, Esq., who gathered them near Har- 

 rowgate. »t* 



