130 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Sp. 9. laevis. Nigra, nitida, Icsvissima, antennarum basi pedibusque fe?'rugineis, 



thorace postice utrinque foveoUs duabus punctatis. (Long corp. 3| lin.) 

 Am. laevis. Sturm. — Steph. Catal. p. 27. No. 221. 



Broadj depressed : bright, shining, brassy-green above : thorax with a slender 

 dorsal line, an obsolete transverse impression, and two fovese at the base on 

 each side, both punctulated, the outer one very obsolete: elytra slightly 

 striated, the striae punctulate, with a few indistinct impressions on the margin 

 at the base, and a somewhat distant series towards the apex : legs entirely 

 ferruginous : antennje and palpi with the basal joints testaceous : body beneath 

 pitchy-black. 



Found near London. " In Dorsetshire." — J. C. Dale, Esq. 



Sp. 10. Cursor. Nigra, antennarum articuUs quatuor basalibus pedibusque tes' 

 taceo-ferrugineis, thorace impunctato, postics utrinque striola unicd, elytris 

 punctato-striatis. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 



Am. Cursor. Sturm ?— Steph. Catal. p. 27. No. 222. 



Above shining bronzed-green: thorax rather convex, with a shght dorsal 

 line, the base with a short impressed obsolete line on each side near the 

 margin, the rest of the surface impunctate : elytra of a pitchy tinge, rather 

 strongly punctato-striated, the external stria with an interrupted series of 

 impressed dots: body beneath pitchy-black: legs, four basal joints of the 

 antennae, and the base of the palpi, ferrugineous. Known from the last by 

 having one obsolete impression on the thorax, and from Am. nitida, by having 

 the legs entirely ferruginous. 



Common in the metropolitan district, " Rare near Bottisham.'' 

 Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 11. bifrons. Supi^h nigro-cenea, subtus rufo-picea, aniennis pedibusque pal- 

 lidis, thorace utrinque bis Jbveolato, elytris punctato-striatis. (Long. corp. 

 3Kn.) 



Ha. bifrons. Gyllenhal.— Steph. Catal. p. 27. No. 223. 



Oblong black-brass above; head smooth, shining: thorax nearly transverse, 

 very slightly attenuated anteriorly, the angles rather obtuse, the disc convex 

 in front, with a faint dorsal channel^ behind transversely depressed, and 

 thickly punctate, with two foveae, the inner larger and deepest, the outer 

 small, oblique; the lateral margin and the hinder angles ferruginous : elytra 

 shghtly convex, shining, dusky-brass, the lateral margin ferruginous, faintly 

 striated, the striae punctulate, the margin with an interrupted series of im- 

 pressions: body beneath smooth, pitchy-red, with the apex and legs pale 

 testaceous : labrum and mouth ferruginous ; mandibles black at the tip : 

 palpi and antennte pale testaceous. 



Two specimens only of tiiis species have come beneath my ob- 



