ENGID^E. — ENGIS. »L 



Sp. 1. Fungorum. Rufo-testacea nitida, capite antennarumque clavd nigris, 



elytris nigro-caeruleis vagi punctatis. (Long. corp. if — 2 lin.) 

 Te. Fungorum. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 89. No. 956. 



Shining testaceous-red: head pitchy-black, thickly rugose-punctate: mouth 

 prominent, with the labrum and palpi testaceous : thorax rather narrowed 

 anteriorly, the base a little waved, all the angles and the lateral margins 

 rounded, the disc convex, thickly punctate; pale glossy testaceous-red: 

 scutellum pitchy : elytra shining blue-black, thickly and irregularly punctate ; 

 body beneath and legs rufo- testaceous. 



Not very abundant : taken occasionally in Coombe-wood ; in 

 Norfolk, &c. " Netley."— Rev. F. W. Hope. 



f Sp. 2. Ancora. Capite, thorace pedibusque testaceis, elytris nigris, plagfi magnd 



communi lobatd maculisque pallidis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 Te. Ancora. Fabricius.— Curtis, iii. pi. 123.— Steph. Catal. 89. No. 957. 



Head and thorax testaceous, thickly punctate : eyes black : scutellum pale tes- 

 taceous: elytra rather broader than the thorax, thickly and deeply punctate, 

 of a deep brown-black, shining, with a large common lobate pale spot on the 

 disc, and several small ones at the base, and on the margins, variable in form 

 and size : body pitchy-testaceous beneath, punctulate : legs testaceous : an- 

 tennae testaceous-red, with the club fuscous. 



Whether the Te. pallida of Curtis be an immature specimen of this species, I 

 am not aware. 



Rare ; or at least very local : specimens have been taken in Hen- 

 hault Forest, the woods near Highgate, Colney-hatch, and in some 

 plenty near Southgate. 



Genus CLII. — Engis, Latreille. 



Antennae short, stout, moniliform, the three terminal joints forming a large 

 coarctate, obtuse, compressed, perfoliated club. Palpi with the last joint 

 obtuse, subulated : head small, triangular, deeply immersed in the thorax, the 

 latter short, convex, margined : body oblong-ovate, glabrous, shining, convex : 

 legs short, robust; tarsi all pentamerous, the fourth joint smaller than the 

 rest. 



The short, abrupt, compressed, perfoliated, triarticulate club of 

 the antennae, with the obtuse, subulated terminal joint of the palpi; 

 oblong-ovate, glabrous, convex body ; short robust legs, and pen- 

 tamerous tarsi, at once point out the peculiarities of this genus, the 

 species of which frequent Boleti, Agarics, &c, during the spring 

 and summer months. 



