112 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



convex, testaceous-brown, punctate-striate, the suture and alternate inter- 

 stices elevated : antennae and legs testaceous ; the club of the former dusky. 

 The short, quadrate thorax, smaller size, and elevated alternate interstices on 

 the elytra, distinguish this species. 



Inhabits the metropolitan district and Norfolk. 



Sp. 4. carinatus. Elongatus, angustus, fuscus, opacus, antennis pedihusque 

 testaceis, thorace subcordato, obsolete bicostato, elytris punctato-striatis, inter- 

 stitiis alternis elevatis. (Long. corp. ^ lin.) 



La. carinatus. Gyllenhal, Ins. Suec. iii. 137. 



Elongate, narrow, fuscous, opaque, with the thorax subcordate, the sides a 

 little expanded before the middle, the margins slightly elevated, narrowed 

 towards the base, the latter truncate ; disc anteriorly convex, unequal, with 

 rudiments of two longitudinal costae, vanishing posteriorly ; towards the base 

 a transverse continuous channel: elytra as wide again at the base as the 

 thorax, the shoulders elevated, the apex rounded, the disc slightly convex, 

 regularly punctate-striate, with the suture and the alternate interstices ele- 

 vated : legs and antennae testaceous. 



Less than either of the foregoing, from which it also differs in its elongate, 

 slender form, subcordate thorax, opaque fuscous colour, &c. 



Found occasionally beneath the bark of dead trees near London. 



Sp. 5. hirtus. Oblongus, niger, punctulatissimus, antennis pedibusque piceo- 

 testaceis, thorace subquadrato, profundi canaliculato foveolatoque, elytris 

 punctato-striatis, pilis albidis adspersis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 



Lat. hirtus. Gyllenhal— -La. hirsutulus. Steph. Catal. 94. JVo. 1001. 



Oblong, black, slightly opaque, very much punctulate : head somewhat depressed, 

 oblong-quadrate, with an impressed line on the forehead: thorax sub- 

 quadrate, rather broad anteriorly, with the lateral margins nearly straight, 

 considerably reflexed and elevated, pilose ; disc unequal, with a deep central 

 channel, rather expanded anteriorly, and terminating near the base in a 

 large deep fovea: elytra rounded at the apex, the disc rather convex pos- 

 teriorly, and towards the base transversely impressed, punctate-striate, 

 clothed with erect, rigid, cinereous hairs : legs rufo-piceous, with the hair 

 of the tibiae and the tarsi pale testaceous : antennas nearly the same, with a 

 ferruginous cast. 



Distinguished by its deep, slightly shining, black colour, combined with its 

 strongly punctulate surface, subquadrate, deeply sulcated thorax, and pilose 

 elytra. 

 Taken near London, and in Suffolk. " Pettyward-wood.'" — 



Mr. Water house. 



Sp. 6. transversus. Oblongus, ferrugineus, thorace brevi, lato, antice sub- 

 angustiori, postice transverslm prqfunde impresso, collari denudato, elytris 

 profundius punctato-striatis. (Long. corp. f— 1 lin.) 



Ips transversus. Olivier. — Lat. transversus. Steph. Catal. 94 No. 100'2. 



