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in Hi. parvus ; at the base and towards the lateral margin are several remote 

 impressed dots : elytra with an abbreviated stria near the suture, then two 

 about half the length of the former and united at the apex, followed by three 

 entire ones, and a short basal one on the margin : legs black : anterior tibiae 

 with five denticulations, the outer one bifid : antennae pitchy-black, with the 

 club ferruginous. 

 Abundantly distinct from all the foregoing species of this section, and may be 

 readily known by having the inner stria on the elytra abbreviated at the base, 

 with the second and third united, and in having a mere rudiment only of 

 an external stria; the club of the antennae ferruginous, and in its oblong 

 depressed form. This species resembles Hi. 12-striatus var. /}. Plate i. f. 6. 

 of the Entomologische Hefte, which both in form and sculpture appears very 

 different from the var. a. of the same work, Plate i. f. 7. 



Found near London ; a single example only. 



TJ. Elytra striated, the external striae abbreviated: thorax without lateral 

 striae, the margins more or less punctured. 



Sp. 22. nitidulus. Ovatus, nigro-subceneus, punctulatus, elytris antice Icevibus, 



striis quinque obliquis abbreviatis. (Long. corp. 2 — 3 lin.) 

 Hi. nitidulus. Fabricius.—Samouelle, Plate 2./. 1. Steph. Catat. 101. A r o. 1066. 



Ovate, black glossed with brassy, shining: forehead punctate: thorax with the 

 disc very smooth, with the sides broadly and the base narrowly but thickly 

 punctate, and an impression on each side within the anterior margin : the 

 elytra rather convex, with the posterior half thickly and finely punctate, 

 each with five punctate, very oblique striae, the outer ones shortest, and the 

 space between the third and fifth somewhat rugged : legs pitchy-black, the 

 anterior tibiae slightly crenate-dentate. 



Larger than either of the other species of this section, and known by having 

 the space between the third and fifth striae on the elytra wrinkled, the wrinkles 

 placed obliquely. 



A very abundant species throughout the metropolitan district, 

 and, I believe, in other parts. " Yarmouth and Swansea. 1 '' — Br. 

 Leach. " Frequent in carrion (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillzoyn, 

 Esq. " Sandsfield. 11 - T. C. Heysham, Esq. " Netley, Oxford, 

 and Southend."— Rev. F. W. Hope. " Plentiful everywhere in 

 Cambridgeshire."— Rev. L. Jenyns. " York and Newcastle. 11 — 

 W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 



Sp. 23. pulcherriraus. Ovatus, wneo-ater, punctulatus, thoracis disco nitido, 

 elytris margine maculdque sesquialtera glaberrimis ; peel/bus picas. (Long, 

 corp. 2 lin.) 



Hi. pulcherrimus. Weber.— Steph. Ca/al. 102. A r o. 1067. 



Ovate, aeneous-black, the latter colour predominating beneath ; thorax shining, 



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