TO MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Greeoish-brass above: head very obsoletely strigose : eyes prominent, dusky: tho- 

 rax broader than the head, very convex, smooth, with the hinder margin pune- 

 tate, and an obHque impressed line near the basal angles : elytra broader than the 

 thorax, elongate, rounded at the tip, punctate-striated, with three very deep 

 impressions between the third and fourth striae : body beneath black ; the 

 thighs bronzed-green ; the shanks and tarsi yellowish-testaceous : palpi rusty 

 brown : antennae with the basal joint black-bronze, the three following red- 

 dish-black, the rest dull brown. 



Donovan, by accident, I presume, asserts that this species is par- 

 ticularly rare ; on the contrary, I have ever found it very common, 

 especially near Ripley, where several dozens may readily be ob- 

 tained in the course of a single day, during the spring ; and in the 

 winter it hybernates copiously beneath mosses. Mr. Dale found it 

 in Scotland, and it is abundant in Wales. 



Genus XXV. — Panag^us, Latreille. 



Pulpi elongate ; labial with the two basal joints short, the second as long as the 

 fourth, rather clavate, the terminal securiform ; internal maxillary fihform, 

 with the basal joint the longest ; external with the basal joint minute, the 

 second elongate-clavate, the third short, conic, the last strongly securiform : 

 labruvi transverse, very slightly notched anteriorly: mandibles short, bent,, 

 simple : mentum notched anteriorly, with a bifid tooth in the middle : head 

 small : neck distinct : thorax suborbiculate : wings two. Antennce fihform : 

 claws simple: anterior tarsi in the males with the two first joints dilated. 



This genus is known by its orbicular thorax, combined with the 

 securiform terminal joint of the palpi, the bifid tooth in the centre 

 of the notch of the mentum, and the deeply punctate and pubescent 

 body. 



Sp. 1. quadripustulatus. Plate IV. f. 6. — Afer, elytris antics rufis, basi, 

 svturd et postice nigris, macvlis diiabus rotundis rujis. (Long. corp. 3 — 3-^- 

 lin.) 



Pa. quadripustulatus. Sturm.— Steph. Catal. JVo. 95. 



Similar to the next, but less, and narrower : it is black, the thorax is nearly 

 orbicular, rather convex, thickly punctate, with an impression on each side 

 at the base near the posterior angle ; it is clothed with yellowish down : 

 the elytra pubescent, rather coarsely punctate-striate, rufous anteriorly, with 

 a spot at the base, and the suture black ; the posterior half is also black, with 

 one large round rufous spot on each elytron : body beneath and legs black, 

 slightly pubescent. 



Not a very common insect : the first specimen which came to 

 my knowledge was caught by myself flying in a gravel-pit in 

 Coorabe-wood, in May, 1812, since which period several have been 



