SCAPKIDIDjE. — CATOPS. U 



Oblong-oval, black, clothed with a dense velvety down, of a griseo-fulvescent 

 hue; palpi rufous-brown; antennas in the female subfusiform, stout, one- 

 third shorter than the thorax, longer and more slender in the male, reddish- 

 brown at the base, the eighth joint much shorter and smaller than the 

 adjoining, the terminal twice as long as the tenth, ovate; thorax sub- 

 quadrate, with the basal margin in the middle a little sinuated on each 

 side; elytra oblong-ovate, slightly dilated in the middle, most obsoletely 

 striated — the striae not visible without removing the pubescence; legs black, 

 with the apex of the anterior femora, the tibiae, and tarsi, reddish-brown. 



Found in Norfolk, Yorkshire, Devonshire, and in other parts of 

 the country; not uncommon. " Bottisham. 1 ' — Rev. L. Jenyns. 

 " Taken on the sand-hills (near Swansea) by Mr. Jeffreys."" — L. 

 W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Netley."— Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 8. Leachii. Ovalis, niger, antennis hasi, tibiis tarsisque rufo-brunneis ; 

 antennis clavatis : articulo extimo brevi, mucronato; capite antice abbre- 

 viate. (Long. corp. 2^ lin.) 



Ch. Leachii. Spence.—Ca.. Leachii. Steph. Catal. 73. No. 790. 



Very similar to the preceding, differing by having the antenna: more slender, 

 the base rufo-brunneous, the apex somewhat fuscescent, the six terminal 

 joints turbinated; the terminal globose-ovate mucronate, subequal to the 

 contiguous one; head less than in the preceding, shorter between the an- 

 tennae ; elytra shorter than in the foregoing species. 



Found in the north of England and near Bristol. " In a common 

 between Crosby and Carlisle." — Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 9. Kirbii. Obovatus fuscus, pedibus dilutioribus, antennis basi ferrugineis, 



articulis ultimis transversis, elytris apics acutis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 Ch. Kirbii. Spence.—Ca. Kirbii. Steph. Catal. 73. No. 791. 



Obovate, fuscous; clothed with a grisescent down: labrum and palpi fer- 

 ruginous ; antennae nearly as long as the thorax, with the five basal joints 

 ferruginous, the rest fuscous; thorax quadrate-subtransverse, obscurely 

 sinuated on each side in the middle of the hinder margin ; elytra with very 

 obsolete striae, the apex somewhat acute ; legs pale-fuscous. 



Var. /S. Black, elytra reddish, with the base of the antennae, the tibia?, and 

 tarsi, ferruginous. 



Similar to the foregoing : differs therefrom in colour, size, in having the thorax 

 more distinctly narrowed behind, the elytra in proportion to the thorax 

 broader, and somewhat more acute at the apex. 



Taken in plenty in a chalk-pit at Little Blakenham, in September, 

 1821. " Netley."— Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 10. Spencii. Obovatus poslice subacuminaius, nigro-fusais, elytris dilu- 



