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Allied to the foregoing, but narrower and more glossy; pitchy-black, punctu- 

 lated, the punctures rather shallow ; the thorax rather oblong, with two ap- 

 proximating deeply impressed foveas behind : elytra very obsoletely striated : 

 antenna? and legs ferruginous. 



Found near London. " Taken in Suffolk in May, by Mr. 

 Kirby."' — Marsliam MSS. 



Sp. 3. pallida. Angustata, pallide testacea, subnitida, capite piceo, antennis 



pedibusque pallidis. (Long. corp. f — 1 lin.) 

 Mo. pallida mihi.—Steph. Catal. 92. No. 981. 



Narrow, pale testaceous, slightly glossy : the head pitchy, the antenna? and legs 

 pale. 



The form of the preceding, but somewhat larger : it may however be an imma- 

 ture state thereof; its principal difference consisting in the pale colour. 



Found near London, and in Norfolk. 



Genus CLXL— Crypta, Kirby MSS. 



Antennce considerably longer than the head and thorax combined, the basal 

 joint robust, large, cylindric; second short, subglobose; the third to the 

 tenth nearly of equal length and very slightly increasing in bulk towards the 

 apex ; the eleventh rather larger ovate-acuminate. Palpi with the terminal 

 joint securiform : mandibles rather prominent: head broad, porrect and at- 

 tenuated in front : eyes large, prominent : thorax subcylindric, slightly mar- 

 gined on the sides : elytra entire, rounded at the apex : body slightly convex, 

 elongate-ovate : legs rather short, stout ; femora slightly incrassated ; tarsi 

 somewhat dilated. 



The securiform palpi of this genus at once distinguishes it from 

 all the other genera of the present section of the family; and 

 its gradually thickened and scarcely clavate antennse also form a 

 peculiarity. 



Sp. 1. bipunctata. Testacea, capite abdominc punctoque versus apicem elytrorum 



nigris. (Long. corp. 2— 2-^ lin.) 

 An. bipunctatus. Fabricius. — Cr. bipunctata. Steph. Catal. 92. iVb. 982. 



Testaceous: head black or pitchy: thorax rather finely punctured, immaculate: 

 elytra rather obsoletely striated, the interstices transversely punctulated, with 

 a round black spot on the disc a little behind the middle and towards the 

 outer margin; the portion of the suture between which is also black: abdo- 

 men black : legs and antenna? testaceous, the tip of the latter dusky or black. 



The thorax is frequently reddish or rufo-ferruginous. 



Not very abundant; found in Devonshire, Somersetshire; I be- 

 lieve in Norfolk, and within the metropolitan district, having taken 

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