60 M ANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA . 



Sp. 1. atomaria. Nigro-fusca, tenue pubescens, punctulata, antennis pedibusque 



pallide rufis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 

 De. atomaria. De Geer. — Tr. atomaria. Steph. Catal 83. No. 883. 



Deep black-brown, very delicately pubescent, and finely punctured : head black, 

 acuminated anteriorly: thorax thickly punctulated, large, convex, with the 

 lateral margins rounded and the hinder angles somewhat produced : scutellum 

 large: elytra broad, slightly convex, with the apex obtuse, somewhat ob- 

 liquely truncate : body pitchy-black : legs and antennas pale rufous, the latter 

 dusky towards the apex. 



Not uncommon throughout the metropolitan district, frequenting 

 damp hedges, gardens, &c, under dung-heaps, rotten garden stuff, 

 or in gravel and sand pits, during the summer. " Taken in the 

 garden at the Willows (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 2. minima. Nigra, nitida, elytris apice pallidis, pedibus rufis. (Long. 



corp. ^ lin.) 

 De. minimus. Marsham.—Tr. minima. Steph. Catal. 83. No. 884. 



Depressed, head and thorax deep glossy black, obscurely punctured ; the elytra 

 rather paler, with the apex still more diluted; antenna? ferruginous; legs 

 pale rufous. 



Differs from the foregoing in being smaller, of a deeper and glossy black, with 

 the apex of the elytra pale, and from the following by the latter characters : 

 —from Tr. minuta it differs in being larger, of a deeper hue, and in being 

 more depressed. 



Found near London, extremely minute. 



Sp. 3. pusilla. Nigra, nitida, antennis pedibusque pallidis. (Long. corp. ^ 



lin.) 

 Sc. pusillum. Gyllenhal? — Tr. pusilla. Steph. Catal. 83. No. 885. 



Rather convex, deep glossy black, very finely punctured, the elytra concolorous 



to the apex : antennae and legs very pale testaceous. 

 The size of the foregoing, from which it chiefly differs in having the apex of 



the elytra concolorous with the base, with the antennae and legs very pale. 



Taken near London and in other parts, not uncommon. 



Sp. 4. nana, lirevis, ovata, nigro-picea, punctulata, tenue pubescens, antennis 



nigro-piceis, pedibus pallidis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 

 Tr. nana. Steph. Catal. 83. No. 886. 



Very short, ovate, pitchy-black, punctulate, and slightly pubescent, the elytra 

 concolorous at the apex, antenna? pitchy-black, the legs pale. 



The deep pitchy-black antenna? of this minute insect, with its short ovate form, 

 well discriminate it from its congeners. 



