40 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Ovate, subconvex, finely punctured : head dusky testaceous ; eyes black ; thorax 

 subquadrate ; narrowly emarginate anteriorly, the sides slightly rounded and 

 but little margined ; the disc rather convex, fuscescent, the margins paler : 

 elytra ovate, pale testaceous, slightly pubescent, with the apex a little trun- 

 cate, the angles rounded: body beneath fulvo-testaceous ; legs pale tes- 

 taceous. 



The small size of this species, with its ovate form, obscure head and thorax, and 

 subtruncate elytra, distinguish this from the foregoing; as the dark head 

 and thorax do from the following. 



Found in Suffolk, Norfolk, near London, and in the New-forest, 

 beneath the bark of trees. 



Sp. 21. affinis. Brevis, ovata, subconvexa, testacea, villosula, thoracis laterihus 



submarginatis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 

 Ni. affinis. Marsham MSS .?—Steph. Catal. 79. No. 845. 



Short, ovate, subconvex, testaceous, villose: head fulvo-testaceous, with the eyes 

 black ; thorax rather glossy, fulvescent, the disc slightly convex, the sides but 

 little margined, the margins pale testaceous ; the anterior edge slightly emar- 

 ginate: elytra short, ovate, immaculate pale testaceous, villose, the apex some- 

 what obliquely truncate, the angles slightly rounded ; body beneath dusky 

 piceous, legs testaceous. 



The slightly margined thorax, which, with the head, is fulvescent, separates this 

 from its allies. 



From the Marshamian collection; I possess one specimen 

 only : the insect lias, I believe, been captured in Suffolk, and near 

 London. 



Sp. 22. melanocephala. Brevis, ovata, subconvexa, rufo-nigra, antennis, elytris 



pedibusque sordide tesiaceis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 

 Ni. melanocephala. Marsham— Steph. Catal. 79. No. 846. 



Short, ovate, slightly convex : head and thorax of a dull rufous or pitchy- 

 black, scutellum the same; antenna? and elytra testaceous^ the latter ob- 

 liquely subtruncate, with the angles somewhat acute; the body beneath 

 pitchy-black ; acute at the apex : legs pale testaceous. 



Known by the dark head and thorax, obliquely truncate elytra, and acute some- 

 what-prominent abdomen. 



Not common: found near London under bark. " Moss from 

 Humby, Dec. 1829.— Do. Seven Oaks."— A. H. Dams, Esq. 



Sp. 23. limbata. Ovata, subconvexa, ferruginea, corpore subtus, thoracis elyti-o- 

 rumque disco postico fuscis, elytris apice rotundatis. (Long. corp. l-> — 1^ lin.) 

 Ni. limbata. Fabricius.— Steph. Catal. 79. No. 847. 



Ovate, subconvex, ferruginous : head convex, thickly punctured, fusco-fer- 

 ruginous, with the eyes black : antenna: ferruginous, with a large black club : 



