BYKRHID.E. — ASPIDIPHORUS. 131 



All. Pimpinellae. Fahricius. — Steph. Catal. 97. JVo. 1024. 



Black, varied above with rufous and white scales : thorax with some ferruginous 

 scales intermixed: elytra densely clothed with black scales, with a broad 

 angulated snowy-white fascia before the middle, having a black spot near the 

 suture, and a white spot near the apex, which last with the suture behind is 

 marbled with rufo-ferruginous and whitish scales : body clothed beneath with 

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

 black, with white scales; tibiae and tarsi rufescent : antennae rusty-brown. 



The bright broad subcentral fascia on the elytra at once distinguishes this elegant 

 species. 



Also very rare in Britain; I have taken it in the vicinity of 

 London, and I believe it has been captured in Suffolk and in 

 Devonshire. 



Genus CLXXV. — Aspidiphorus, Ziegler. 



Antennae about as long as the thorax, the basal joint very large, bent, dilated 

 externally, the club triarticulate, considerably elongated and cylindric : head 

 large, angulated, convex : eyes rather prominent : thorax short, a little emar- 

 ginate anteriorly, sinuated posteriorly, being slightly produced in the middle; 

 the lateral margins rounded and slightly margined : scntellum small, rounded : 

 elytra large, slightly emarginated, rounded at the apex : body suborbiculate, 

 convex: legs slender: tarsi elongate, with the four anterior articulations 

 subequal. 



Aspidiphorus — not Arpidiphorus, as it has been erroneously called 

 — may be known from Anthrenus and Trinodes by the length of 

 the basal joint of the antennae, which is elongate and subclavate, as 

 in most of the Histeridse, to which family it may probably serve to 

 unite the present ; but as I have not an opportunity of examining 

 the insect, I cannot be positive upon that point; the description, 

 both generic and specific, being drawn up from GyllenhalPs valuable 

 labours. 



f Sp. 1. orbiculatus., Niger, subpubescens, pedibus rufis. (Long. corp. 1 lin. ?) 

 Nit. orbiculata. Gyflenhall.—As. orbiculatus.— Steph. Catal. 97. JVo. 102G. 



Black, shining, somewhat pubescent : head minutely punctured : thorax above 

 convex, minutely punctured: scutellum punctate: elytra broader than the 

 thorax, with the sides dilated, the disc very convex, regularly and rather 

 deeply punctate-striate, and clothed with a delicate cinerascent down : body 

 beneath shining pitchy-black, with the breast deeply punctate : legs slender, 

 pale reddish. 



While on a visit at Barham, during which period I was engaged 



