136 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



and from Simplocaria their deciduous tomentose body and subcla- 

 vate palpi. 



Sp. 1. pilula. Oblongo-ovatus, tomentosus, fuscus, elytris vittis interruptis holo- 



sericeo-atris. (Long. corp. 3^ — 4^ lin.) 

 By. pilula. Linne.—Samouelle, pi. 2. f. 3.— Steph. Catal. 97. No. 1029. 



Oblong-ovate; head clothed with a fuscous pubescence: thorax fuscous-black, 

 variegated with an ashy-red pubescence: elytra very obsoletely striated, 

 clothed with an ashy-brown down, the alternate interstices adorned with in- 

 terrupted black silken stripes : body beneath deep shining black, thickly and 

 deeply punctulate : legs and antennae black. 



Var. /3. Stepk. Catal. I. c— Black, with the pubescence worn off, leaving the 

 darker stripes on the elytra alone remaining; the thorax obscurely clouded. 



Var. y. Steph. Catal. I. c. — Rather less, with the stripes on the elytra fer- 

 ruginous, and the pubescence more glossy. 



Some examples are almost totally black, and others have the interrupted black 

 stripes distinctly spotted with white. 



Extremely abundant throughout the metropolitan district ; com- 

 mon also near Dover, Brighton, in the Isle of Wight, &c. ; also 

 in Norfolk and Suffolk. " Devonshire, common." — Dr. Leach. 

 " York and Newcastle." — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. " Bottisham, 

 &c, not uncommon.'' 1 — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Common on the sand- 

 hills (near Swansea), and almost every where.'" — L. W. Dillwyn, 

 Esq. " Epping." — Mr. Doubleday. " St. Nicholas, Harraby, &C." 

 — T. C. Hey sham, Esq. 



Sp. 2. Dennii. Oblongo-ovatus, ater, aureo-pubescens, thorace maculis duahis 

 rotundatis antics, duabus angulatis postics nigris, elytris vittis quatuor longi- 

 tudinalibus fascidque tranversd nigris. (Long. corp. 4 lin.) 



By. Dennii. Kirby MSS.— Curtis, iii. pi. 135.— Steph. Catal. 98. No. 1030. 



Oblong-ovate; black, clothed with a pale golden-pubescence : thorax with two 

 large round black spots in front, and two irregular angulated ones behind: 

 elytra with four longitudinal interrupted black stripes, and a broad sinuated, 

 abbreviated, black, transverse fascia in the middle of the back; the margin 

 dusky : body beneath dull black : legs and antennas dull pitchy-black. 



Slightly variable: the markings being less evident in some examples than in 

 others. 



Rare : twice taken on Hampstead-heath, and once found, in 

 the spring of 1821, in a chalk pit at Barham, by Mr. Denny; it 

 may be only a variety of the foregoing: its chief distinction 

 consisting in the disposition of the coloured patches of the pu- 

 bescence. 



