S6 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Sp. 3. glabratus. Ferrugineus ; elytris sicblavibus, cyaneis ; ah" 



dom'mc obscuro. De Jean. (Long. c. 2| lin.) 

 Br. glabratus. BoneUi. — Steph. Catal. No. 39. 



Very similar to Br. crepitans^ but at once distinguished from it by the want of 

 the elevated costs on the elytra, and by having the antennae spotless, by 

 which character it may also be known from Br. explodens. It is ferruginous, 

 with the elytra bluish-green, and the abdomen obscure fuscous. 



The first indigenous specimen of this species which I examined 

 was taken by myself in the month of June, 1819, beneath a stone 

 near Dover, on the road to Folkestone, and Dr. Leach took a 

 second, about three years since, near Ashburton, in Devonshire, 

 which he sent to the British Museum, where it is now deposited. 

 No other instance of its inhabiting Britain has come to my know- 

 ledge, but it is probably not uncommon in the districts above-men- 

 tioned. 



Sp. 4. sclopeta. Plate IL f. 5. Ferrugineus ; elytris suhlcemhus, 



cyaneis, siiturdabbreviatdferruginea. (Long. c. 3 lin.) 

 Br. sclopeta. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. No. 40. 



Known at first sight by the abbreviated red dash at the base of the elytra, near 

 the scutellum : it is rather less than the general size of Br. crepitans, a little 

 more elongated, and rather more convex : it is ferruginous on the head, 

 thorax, breast, and the entire abdomen ; the legs are also of that colour^, as 

 well as the antennae and the basal half of the suture : the elytra are rather 

 shorter and broader than in the common species, and are blue-green, without 

 elevated hues : the antennse are clear ferruginous-red, without any duskiness 

 on the third and fourth joints. 



Of this species I have seen but three specimens, the first of which 

 was captured by Dr. Leach in Devonshire, two years since ; the 

 second is in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, and the other 

 in my own. I am not aware of the locality of the two last, but I 

 rather suspect that mine came from Hastings. 



Family HL — Scaritidj., Mac Leay. 



Elytra not truncated : abdomen remote from the thorax, or peduncidated. An^ 

 tenncE moniUform, the basal joint largest : labrum short, entire, or dentatej 

 sometimes trilobate : mandibles generally dentated on the inner edges : max- 

 illae ciliated internally, bent, with a claw at the tip : labium short, broad, ex- 

 panded on the upper edge, or projecting, trilobate, with the central lobe ob- 

 tuse and truncate at the tip; labial pilpi four in number: mcntuiii large. 



