130 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTEliA. 



clothed with whitish ones : elytra with three fasciae, composed of whitish and 

 lutescent scales, the basal one arising at the base of the elytra, passing down 

 the sides of the scutellum, and bending outwards, when it becomes rather 

 obsolete and irregularly flexuous : the second is a little behind the middle, 

 transverse and flexuous ; and the third near the apex rather oblique, and fre- 

 quently united to the second on the suture or on the margin : body beneath 

 cinereous, with naked black marginal spots: femora black; tibiae and tarsi 

 rufescent : antennae ferruginous, with the club obscure. 

 Variable in size and in the appearance of the transverse fascia? on the elytra, 

 arising from the latter being more or less denuded : the ferruginous tibiae 

 distinguish it with facility from the preceding species. 



Very abundant in umbelliferous flowers throughout the metropolis, 

 and I suspect equally common in other parts — this insect being 

 usually confounded with the foregoing, from which it is obviously 

 distinct. " Norfolk."— Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 3. varius. Cinereus, thorace elytrisque fusco cinereoque variis, corpore 



subtus immaculato. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 

 An. varius. Fabricius.—Steph. Catal. 96. No. 1021. 

 Cinereous with the thorax and elytra varied with fuscous and cinereous : the 



body beneath cinereous, immaculate. 

 Probably a variety of the preceding species, from which it chiefly differs in being 



smaller and in having the body immaculate beneath, and rather more clouded 



above. 



Found with the foregoing insect. " Among herbage on Crwmlyn 

 Burrows." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 4. Scrophulariae. Supra niger, thoracis lateribus elytrorumque fasciis squa- 

 moso-albidis, suturd rubra. (Long. corp. 1^— if lin.) 



By. Scrophulariae. Linne.— An. Scrophulariae. Steph. Catal. 97. No. 1023. 



Above black ; head with a white squamose spot on the front : thorax black, 

 with a slender dorsal line, and a waved subtriangular patch at the hinder 

 angles, densely clothed with whitish scales : elytra with three irregular flexuous 

 white fasciae, with the suture densely covered with bright rufous scales, ex- 

 panding towards the apex, in which is a minute black patch, and more or less 

 branching off towards the white fasciae : body beneath thickly clothed with 

 whitish scales, with the sides of the abdomen spotted with black : femora black, 

 tibiae and tarsi rufescent: antennae testaceous, with the club black. 



The red suture at once characterizes this beautiful species from its congeners. 



Rare in England : it has been captured within the metropolitan 

 district and in other parts ; but I know not its exact locality. 



Sp. 5. Pimpinellae. Supra niger, rufo alhoque variis, elytris fascia untied laid, 

 punctoque apicis albis.simis. (Long. corp. ltg lin.) 



