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Not very uncommon in the neighbourhood of London, and in 

 Suffolk ; in July, 1827, I found it flying abundantly in a garden at 

 Ripley, during the afternoon : I have also received it from Bristol. 

 " Under bark of elm trees, Kensington Gardens." — Mr. Water- 

 house. " Taken in the neighbourhood of Swansea." — L. W. Dill- 

 wyn, Esq. 



Sp. 1 1 . elongatus. Augustus, pallide castaneus, aut testaceus thorace oblongo, 

 pone medium constricto, elyiris profundius punctato-striatis. (Long. corp. 

 f-xx Kn.) 



Lat. elongatus. Curtis, vii. pi. 311. — Lat. angustatus. Steph. Catal. 94. No. 

 1005. 



Elongate, narrow, pale-chestnut, or testaceous ; head oblong, coarsely punctured : 

 eyes black: thorax oblong, strangulated near the base, the disc coarsely 

 punctured, the sides margined and slightly recurved : elytra very long, and 

 twice as broad as the thorax, elliptical and depressed, each with six rows of 

 very large and strongly impressed punctures ; the space between the fourth 

 and fifth forming a sharp ridge: antennae and legs sometimes paler, and 

 tinged with ochre. 



Larger than the foregoing, with the thorax more elongated, and narrower an- 

 teriorly, and the punctures on the elytra deeper and larger. 



Found in various places throughout the metropolitan district; in 

 abundance near Southgate : also found near Bristol, in the New 

 Forest, Devonshire, &c. 



Genus CLXVI. — Eutheia*, Waterhouse. 



Antennae larger than the head and thorax, the eight first joints rather slender, 

 short; the basal one more robust than the two following, subcylindric ; the 

 fourth larger than the adjoining, subglobose ; the three terminal ones much 

 more robust than the rest, and forming a distinct club, the two basal joints of 

 which are trans verse- quadrate; the terminal one triangular, acute. Palpi 

 very minute : head small, convex : thorax convex, the anterior angles rounded, 

 the posterior acute, the base truncate, with a row of impressed dots : elytra 

 slightly convex, pilose, plicate at the base, truncate at the apex, and shorter 

 than the abdomen, which has the apex exposed: legs short ; femora incrassated ; 

 tibice simple. 



Eutheia is apparently closely allied to Scydmsenus, from which 

 it differs in having the elytra truncate, the palpi shorter, and the 

 general habit that of an Atomaria : — it perhaps, with Cryptophagus 



* Evtivs, rectus, in allusion to the straight apex of the elytra. 



