28 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Fabricius was the first person who noticed this insect, and he 

 expressly describes it as a native of England, from a specimen in 

 the collection of Dr. Hunter : a fact of which no English writer 

 appears to have been aware. It may be esteemed a very rare spe- 

 cies. I have hitherto seen but six specimens, which were captured 

 in Oakhampton Park, Somersetshire ; four of these are now in the 

 collection at the British Museum, to which they were presented by 

 my friend. Dr. Leach ; the fate of the other two I have reason to 

 deplore. 



t Sp. 3. hsemorrhoidalis. Rtifa; elytris nigris, apke riifis. (Long. 



c. 2 lin.) 

 Ca. hsemorrhoidalis. Fabricius. — Le. hsemorrhoidalis. Stepli. Catal. 



No. 28. 



About the size of Le. turcica . the head, antennse, thorax, and scutellum are 

 red : the eyes and elytra black ; the latter with a yellowish rusty-red spot at 

 the tip, waved on the upper part : the elytra are very sUghtly striated and 

 finely punctated ; they have also two impressed dots, as in Le. turcica : the 

 breast is dusky ; the rest of the under parts and the legs are rusty-red. 



1 have seen one specimen only of this insect, which was captured 

 near Netley, Shropshire, on broom, by the Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Genus VIIL — Lamprias, Bonelli, 



Palpi with the terminal joints filiform, distinctly truncated : labium elongate, 

 entire : labial palpi with the two basal joints short, the third and fourth elon- 

 gate, the latter subtruncate . mentum lobated, not toothed : labrum subor- 

 bicular, entire: mandibles not ioo^heA.: tarsi with triangular joints, the penul- 

 timate very obsoletely bifid : antenna nearly linear, the basal joint largest, 

 and nearly the length of the third, which is longest, the second shortest, the 

 remainder nearly equal in length, the terminal joint not longer. Head subovate, 

 a little produced posteriorly: thorax transverse, the hinder margin lobated: 

 elytra broad : body short, depressed : claws denticulated : wings short. 



This genus was established by Bonelli upon very slender cha- 

 racters ; so much so as to induce De Jean to reunite it with Lebia : 

 but the difference of habit between the species of the two genera is, 

 in my opinion, sufficient to induce us to pause ere we retrograde 

 and expunge the genus Lamprias from our nomenclature : the chief 

 differences between them consist in the present genus having linear 

 antennae, short wings, the palpi distinctly truncated, and the pen- 

 ultimate joint of the tarsi so very slightly bifid as to appear simple ; 

 while in Lebia the antennae become incrassated towards the ex- 



