16 Mr. John Curtis's Critical Remarks 



pale ochreous fascia, and a straight and broader one towards the 

 apex ; the legs (at least the anterior) are red. 

 3^ lines long, \\ broad. 



This beautiful insect is nearly allied to the Elaler sex-pimctatus 

 of Illiger, and the Cardiophorus ornalus of Dejean, both of which 

 species inhabit Spain. My specimen of C. Jormosus, which I 

 believe is unique, was given to me by Mr. Simmons. It was 

 taken from the roots of some celery in a cottage garden near 

 Wentworth House, Yorkshire. Unfortunately it was mutilated 

 after being captured, by which accident the antennae and some of 

 the legs are lost. 



Sp. 7. Aploforsus? colhurnatus, Curt. MSS. (PI. II. fig. 7.) 



Elongate, narrow, shining black, not very thickly punctured, 

 but clothed with very short, depressed, ochreous pubescence. 

 Antennae stoutish, scarcely longer than the thorax (fig. /), shorter 

 in the female, basal joint clavate, second and third small, obovatc- 

 truncate ; the remainder longer, compressed, elongate, obovate, trun- 

 cated. Head semiglobose (fig. m), with a ridge down the centre, 

 most evident in front ; clypeus bent over the mouth, and forming 

 a kind of lobe, coarsely punctured, not margined ; palpi ferrugi- 

 nous, ovate, obliquely truncated. Thorax very convex, longer 

 than broad, oval, truncated and broadest at the base, a short 

 channel or impression behind the middle, base transversely de- 

 pressed, the angles spreading, elongated, stout, trigonate and 

 carinated ; pectoral spine long, acute, with a central groove, dilated 

 at the base ; scutellum depressed, ovate-conic. Elytra elliptic, a 

 little broader than the thorax and nearly thrice as long, depressed, 

 deeply striate-punctate, the apex with a flattened margin. Legs 

 testaceous, thighs pitchy, tips subcastaneous ; tarsi simple and 

 very slender. 



4 lines long, and 1 1 broad. 



I possess a pair of this E later, which was taken at Windsor by 

 Mr. C. Griesbach. It appears to be undescribed, but it is allied 

 to the E. longulus of Gyllenhal ; and although at first sight it re- 

 sembles L'lmonius minutus and its congeners, it does not belong to 

 the same section, neither is it a true Aplotarsus I presume. 



I have not yet had an opportunity of studying the genera of 

 Eschscholtz, but from casual observations I am led to believe they 

 are very arbitrary, and I therefore regret to see his system super- 

 seding the philosophic classification of Latreille, which was pub- 

 lished in the third volume of the " Annales de la Soc. Ent. de 

 France." I have elsewhere intimated that the larvas exhibit several 

 types of form \\hich might possibly assist (when more generally 



