34 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



behind the middle a lunate paler mark ; body beneath black-brown, punc- 

 tate; legs pitch y- ferruginous ; antennae with the club dusky. 



Common in old bones, fungi, beneath the bark of trees through- 

 out the metropolitan district. " Bottisham. 11 — Rev. L. Jenyns. 

 " On fungi and old wood, Netley." — Rev. F. W. Hope. " Glan- 

 villes Wootton. 11 — J. C. Dale, Esq. " Occasionally (near Swan- 

 sea). 11 — L. W. Dillzvgn, Esq. 



Sp. 5. Colon. Ovata, depressa, nigro-fusca, thorace foveolis duabus impressis, 



margine elytrisque lituris apiceque Jerrugineis. (Long. corp. 1 — 1 J lin.) 

 Si. Colon. Fabricius.—Ni. Colon. Steph. Catal. 78. No. 829. 



Ovate, depressed, head deeply punctured, pitchy black, mouth pitchy : thorax 

 deeply emarginate in front, truncated behind, the disc thickly punctured, 

 dusky, with two rounded equal foveola? a little behind the middle, the margins 

 dull ferruginous : elytra ovate, a little convex, finely punctured, pitchy-black, 

 with several minute spots at the base, and a large ovate duplex patch on the 

 disc behind the middle testaceous; near the suture is a single abbreviated 

 stria ; body black and punctate beneath : legs dull ferruginous. 



Varies considerably in size and in the intensity of its colour : in some examples 

 the posterior blotch on the elytra is interrupted with an undulated transverse 

 dusky mark. 



Not uncommon throughout the metropolitan district, frequent- 

 ing old bones, beneath the bark of decaying trees and in dead car- 

 cases. " Bottisham. 1 ' — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Riverhead, Kent." — Mr. 

 Ingpen. " Old bones, Netley. 1 ' — Rev. F. W. Hope. " Common 

 (near Swansea). 11 — L. W. Dillzvyn, Esq. 



Sp. 6. discoidea. Ovata, depressa, nigra, thorace foveolis duabus impressis, mar- 

 gine elytrisque disco pallide testaceis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 



Ni. discoidea. Fabricius. — Samouelle, pi. 2.f. 5. Steph. Catal. 78. No. 830. 



Ovate, depressed, black, finely and thickly punctured : head unequal : thorax 

 with two impressed foveolfe, and a narrow ferruginous margin : elytra ovate, 

 griseo-pubescent, with a large pale-testaceous, somewhat orbicular patch at 

 the base, the margins black, a little spotted with testaceous ; legs dull fer- 

 ruginous. 



In some examples, the patch on the disc is a little clouded with dusky or black ; 

 and in others — probably immature — the entire surface is of a pale, slightly 

 clouded, griseo-ferruginous. 



Found with the preceding, but more abundantly. " Bottisham." 

 Rev. L. Jenyns. " Netley." — Rev. F. W. Hope. " Epping." — 

 Mr. Doubleday. " Glanvilles Wootton. 1 '—/. C. Dale, Esq. « Near 

 Swansea." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Hornsey and Coombe-woods, 

 and Riverhead." — Mr. Ingpen. 



