14 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



smooth: labrum and palpi pale-ferruginous : antenna? ferruginous, the joints 

 of nearly equal length, the second and eighth shortest : thorax piceous, with 

 the sides and posterior angles paler, sometimes black, or pitchy-black ; 

 quadrate- orbicular, the base and apex of nearly equal width; the middle 

 broader: elytra generally obscure-reddish, or black, or pitchy-black, or piceous, 

 oblong, the apex obtusely rounded, each with seven obsolete striae : legs fer- 

 ruginous: abdomen black, with the terminal segments rather pale at the 

 apex. 

 Very variable in colour; when recently emerged from the pupa, it is entirely of 

 a pale- testaceous or yellow. 



Extremely common throughout the metropolitan district, and in 

 other parts adjacent thereto. " Bottisham, very common. 1 ' — Rev. 

 L. Jenyns. " Carfin, Scotland."— Rev. F. W. Hope. " Epping." 

 — Mr. Doubleday. " Under stones on Crwmlyn Burrows and 

 elsewhere. 1 ' — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Carlisle." — T. C. Heysham, 

 Esq. " Leamington." — Mr. Westwood. " Netley.' 1 — Rev. F. W. 

 Hope. " North Wales." — C. Darwin, Esq. 



Sp. 2. agilis. Oblongo-ovalis, nigra, supra piceo-brunnea, antennis pedibusque 



ferrugineis ; thorace postice latiore. (Long. corp. 2j lin.) 

 Pt. agilis. Illiger.—Ch. agilis. Steph. Catal. 74. No. 797. 



Body shorter and broader than in the preceding ; clothed with a denser griseo- 

 fulvescent pubescence : head pitchy-black, smooth : labrum, mandibles, and 

 palpi yellow: antenna? ferruginous, with the apex darker: thorax pitchy- 

 brown, with the disc darker, subconvex, transverse-quadrate, the base rather 

 broader than the apex, the hinder margin straight : elytra ovate-oblong, 

 pitchy-brown, with seven very obsolete strise: body beneath pitchy-black; 

 legs ferruginous. 



Like the preceding, this species varies considerably in colour, and the immature 

 specimens are of a testaceous-yellow. 



Less common than the last, but occasionally found not only 

 throughout the metropolitan district, but in other parts. " Moss 

 from Humby, Dec. 1829."— A. H. Davis, Esq. " Netley.' 1 — 

 Rev. F. W. Hope. " North Wales."— C Darwin, Esq. 



Sp. 3. gausapata. Oblongo-ovalis, piceo-nigra pube densiori vestito, antennis 



pedibusque piceo-ferrugineis, thorace postice latiore. (Long. corp. 2^ lin.) 

 CI. gausapata. Spence MSS.?—C\. gomphosata. Steph. Catal. 74. No. 798. 



Size of the last; oblong-oval, above deep pitchy-black, clothed with a dense 

 changeable fulvescent pubescence: labrum and palpi pitchy-fulvous; thorax 

 with its margins slightly testaceous, the disc pitchy-black; slightly convex, 



