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ruginous, the disc very glossy : elytra very convex, subacuminate at the apex, 

 delicately and thickly punctate; with a slightly flexuous, tricuspid, longi- 

 tudinal pale mark in the middle of the base, and a little behind the middle of 

 the disc an arcuated transverse pale fascia, not touching the suture ; the latter 

 with an impressed stria, abbreviated anteriorly: abdomen and legs pitchy. 



Rather scarce: found in some plenty in July, 1825, beneath 

 decayed bark of oaks in Clandon-common : also found in Coombe- 

 wood. " Netley."— Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 2. imperialis. Plate xvi. f. 5. Ovatus, convexus, nigro-fuscus,ferrugineo 

 marginatus, elytrorum dorso plagd magnCi communi lobatCi albidi, nigro- 

 maculata. (Long. corp. 1^ — \\ lin.) 



Ni. imperialis. Fabricius. — St. imperialis. Steph. Catal. 80. No. 851. 



Ovate, convex, deep fuscous ; head sometimes ferruginous ; thorax black or 

 pitchy, with all the margins ferruginous : elytra with the margin and suture 

 ferruginous, or testaceous; the disc varied with dusky and white, the ground 

 being of the latter colour, with about four dusky or black spots on each 

 elytrum, one small at the base, two in the middle subconfluent, and a fourth 

 much larger, sublunate, and placed near the suture towards the apex: body 

 pitchy-black : antennae and legs testaceous. 



Gyllenhal suspects that this may be the opposite sex of St. strigatus ; justly so I 

 think. 



Taken in plenty with the preceding insect in Clandon-common, 

 but in other places somewhat rare. I have found the insect at 

 Coombe. " Taken in the Penllergare-woods, not common." — 

 L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



B. With the basal joint of the antennae broad lenticular, the third scarcely 

 longer than the fourth, the latter and three following short, of nearly^equal 

 length, the club nearly globose, or slightly compressed. 



a. The elytra punctate, naked, not striated. 



Sp. 3. fervida. Ohlongo-ovata, convexa, saturate ferruginea puiictatissima, subpu- 

 bescens, antennartimclavu coarctatd, elytris apice sapefuscis. (Long.corp. 2lin.) 

 Ni. fervida. Olivier.— Steph. Catal. 79. No. 848. 



Oblong-ovate, convex, deep glossy-ferruginous, and thickly punctured : head 

 with an impression in the front ; eyes black ; thorax rather narrow an- 

 teriorly, broadly and deeply emarginate in front, the sides rounded, the 

 margin very narrow, above convex: elytra broad, above convex, deeply punc- 

 tured, the apex obtuse : body beneath deep ferruginous : legs pale ferruginous : 

 antennae short, ferruginous, with the basal joint greatly ddated, orbiculate, the 

 club large coarctate, somewhat globose and sometimes pitchy-brown. 



The anterior and posterior edges of the thorax, with a slender margin to the 

 suture and the apex of the elytra, are sometimes dusky or black. 



