90 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



pitchy : anteniiiE piceous at the base^ fuscescent at the tip : thorax cordate^ a 

 ■ little convex, shining black, very delicately and transversely strigose, v?ith a 

 slender longitudinal channel, and a rather deep rounded foveola on each side 

 at the base ; the lateral margin much elevated : elytra ample, rounded at the 

 shoulders, the sides not dilated ; depressed, black, slightly glossy, and ob- 

 soletely striated, the striae scarcely punctulated, and approximating in pairs ; 

 the interstices under a deep lens very delicately and thickly transversely 

 strigose ; the margin with remote, subocellated impressed dots : body beneath 

 pale piceous, smooth, glossy : legs elongated, slender, pitchy, the base pale 

 rufescent. 



Taken by Dr. Leach? but I know not its locality. 



B. With the thorax suboblong-ovate, the posterior angles sometimes 

 rather acute. 

 Sp. 13. quadripunctatum. Plate Yl,f. 1. — Oblongurn, nigrum, subdepressu?n, 

 supra violaceum, elytris ienue striatis, foveis disci quaiuor serie impressis. 

 (Long. Corp. 3 lin.) 

 Ca. quadripunctatus. De Geer. — Ag. 4 — punctatum. Steph. Catal. No. 134. 



Head glossy violet-black : mouth, palpi, and antennas black : thorax deep violet- 

 black, subcordate, a little convex, strigose throughout, the striga^ obsolete, 

 an oblique punctate impression near the posterior angles, which are somewhat 

 acute, and a shght dorsal channel : elytra oblong, subdepressed, deep violet- 

 black, tinged with bluish, very slightly striated ; the stria impunctate, and 

 between the second and third from the suture several deep impressions, and 

 some rather obsolete on the marginal stria: body beneath shining black, 

 smooth : legs elongate, entirely black. 



I have hitherto seen but one specimen only of this pretty insect, 

 which was taken by Mr. Weaver in Cumberland last season, and 

 is in my cabinet. 



Sp. 14. consimile. Oblongurn, subconvexum, nigi'o-ccDrulescens, mandihulis rufo- 

 piceis, elytris fusco-virescentihus striatis, punctis tribus disci minutis. (Long, 

 corp. 2i-3 Hn.) 



Ha. consimilis. Gyllenhal. — Ag. consimile. Steph. Catal. No. 135. 



Similar to the last : head blue-black, shining, smooth : mandibles pitchy-red : 

 palpi and antennae black : thorax short, transverse, slightly convex, entirely 

 blue-black ; closely and obsoletely strigose, with a slight dorsal channel, and 

 an oblique, oblong, impression near the basal angles, which are somewhat 

 evident : elytra oblong, glossy, fuscous, tinged with greenish, a little convex, 

 sUghtly striated, the striae impunctate, with three or four very minute dots 

 between the second and third from the suture, and about the same nrnnber 

 towards the tip on the margin, which has a few wrinkles at its base : tlie 

 body beneath is glossy blue-black, subpunctate : legs elongate blacky the 

 thighs bluish. 



I am indebted to A. Cooper, Esq. 11. A. for a series of tliis rather 



