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flowers of umbelliferous plants, and occasionally under logs of wood 

 on the sea-shore (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwgn, Esq. 



Sp. 2. silaceus. Flavo-testaeeus, subpubescens, elytris abdomineque satura- 



tioribus, thorace transverso rectangulo. (Long. corp. 2\ — 3 lin.) 

 Ips. silaceus. Herbst. — An. Silaceus. Steph. Catal. 86. No. 937. 



Testaceous-yellow, slightly pubescent : head rather porrect, rounded anteriorly, 

 very finely punctured ; eyes black ; thorax transverse, rectangular, slightly 

 convex, faintly punctulate, pale ochraceous : elytra very obscurely punctulate, 

 deep testaceous, with a single obsolete abbreviated stria near the suture: body 

 beneath glossy ferruginous, punctate : legs pale yellow, with the base of the 

 tibiae rather obscure. The opposite sex has the intermediate joints of the an- 

 tennae of dusky-brown, the base and apex being pale; the base of the tibiae 

 black, and the tarsi quadriarticulate. 



Larger, with the bead and thorax less distinctly punctate and of a paler hue 

 than the preceding species. 



Less abundant than the last, like which it frequents flowers 

 in various places throughout the metropolitan district. 



Sp. 3. glaber ? Rufo-testaceus, glaber, subdepressus, thorace transverso, antice 



sub-emarginato. (Long. corp. l| lin.) 

 Cr. glaber. Gyllenhalf— An. glaber. Steph. Catal. 86. No. 938. 



JRufo-testaceous, glabrous, slightly depressed : head smooth rufo-ferruguinous ; 



eyes black : thorax somewhat emarginate anteriorly, truncate posteriorly, the 



lateral margins rounded and slightly waved, the disc convex, smooth, glossy 



rufo-ferruginous : elytra moderately convex, impunctate. 

 Differs from its congeners by having the surface glabrous, and scarcely punctured ; 



and the anterior margin of the thorax somewhat emarginate. 

 Whether this be the An. similis or castanea of Curtis, or what those species 



are, I am not aware. 



Rare : found within the metropolitan district. 



Genus CXLIII. — Cryptophagus, Herbst. 



Antenna somewhat approximating, stout, as long as the thorax ; the basal joint 

 large, globose ; second smaller, also globose ; third longer than either of the 

 others, clavate ; the five following smaller than the second, subglobose ; the 

 remaining three forming the club, the two first joints of which are cup-shaped, 

 the third conical. Palpi short, filiform; the terminal joint elongate, ovate: 

 head trigonate, inserted up to the eyes, which are small : thorax transverse, 

 truncate behind, the lateral margins more or less dentate or crenate : scutellum 

 broad, short, transverse : body ovate, convex : elytra elongate-ovate : tarsi 

 simple, five-jointed, the posterior pair in one sex four-jointed only. 



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