44 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Rare ; I have, as yet, seen two specimens only, which are in 

 my collection, and were captured near London in June : it inhabits 

 fungi. 



b. With the elytra striated, pilose. 



Sp. 4. ferrugineus. Ovatus, fusco-ferrugineus, dense pubescens, elytris rude 



punctata- striatis, pube seriata adspersis. (Long. corp. l| — 2\ lin.) 

 Ni. ferruginea. Fabricius. — St. ferrugineus. Steph. Catal. 80. No. 852. 



Ovate, dusky-ferruginous, with the head rather darker: thorax stout, broad, 

 deeply emarginate anteriorly, the disc slightly convex, coarsely and obsoletely 

 punctured, densely pubescent, and dull ferruginous : elytra ovate, convex, the 

 apex obtuse, rounded, coarsely punctate-striate, the punctures subocellated, 

 the interstices pubescent, the pubescence disposed in rows : abdomen beneath 

 pitchy-black : legs and antennae ferruginous. 



The head, thorax, and abdomen are sometimes of a deep pitchy-brown. 



Found in abundance, in August, 1819, in Lycoperdons, near 

 Dover; also at Guildford, in September, 1821, and at Coombe- 

 wood. " A large brood met with in Lycoperdons on Gogmagog 

 hills, near Cambridge, in October." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Epping." 

 — Mr. Doubleday. 



Genus CXXXII. — Campta, Kirby. 



Antennce as long as the thorax, the basal joint larger, subcylindric, the second 

 smaller and shorter, subgiobose, the three following of equal length, elongate, 

 subclavate, the sixth to the eighth very short, subgiobose, the remainder 

 forming an abrupt, elongate, somewhat loosely perfoliate compressed club, 

 with the terminal joint ovate. Palpi filiform : head angulated, tomentose : 

 thorax large, broad, very convex, tomentose, the sides not depressed, slightly 

 margined, and rounded : elytra broad, anteriorly convex, posteriorly a little 

 deflexed, the apex rounded, scarcely concealing the extremity of the abdomen: 

 body rounded ovate. 



Campta differs chiefly in external characters from Strongylus 

 by having the body shorter, thickly tomentose above, the third, 

 fourth, and fifth joints of the antennae of nearly equal length, some- 

 what elongate, with the club more loosely perfoliated. 



Sp. 1. lutea. Flavo-testacea, tomentosa, thorace fornicato dilatato, -elytris apice 



dilatatis. (Long. corp. if — 2\ lin.) 

 St. luteus. Herhst.— Ca.lutea. Steph. Catal 80. No. 853. 



Rounded ovate, testaceous-yellow, with the eyes above black, the upper surface 

 clothed with a close decumbent pale down; the lower glabrous; the thorax 



