HISTERJDjE. — HISTER. 155 



This species is distinguished by having the bright polished space on the elytra, 

 in the region of the scutellum, divided into two unequal areas, the inner of 

 which has an abbreviated stria at the base, and by having the anterior tibia: 

 serrated. 



Not uncommon in the neighbourhood of London : in plenty at 

 Hertford, Ripley, Darenth ; and at Dover, &c. " In cow-dung 

 and dead birds, frequent (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 

 " Carlisle, Drumbrugh." — T. C. Her/sham, Esq. " Bottisham." — 

 Rev. L. Jenyns. " Oxford, Netley, Southend, be?— Rev. F. W. 

 Hope. 



t Sp. 26. conjungens. Ovatus, nigro subvirescens, elytris apice iantum punc- 



tat is, striis quinque ultra medium productis. (Long. corp. ^ lin.?) 

 Hi. conjungens. Paykul Faun. i. 44. — Curtis Guide. 



Black, slightly glossed with greenish-brass ; forehead flat, thickly punctured ; 

 thorax with the angles rounded, the disc very smooth, the anterior and 

 posterior margins narrowly punctate, the lateral ones broadly so ; elytra 

 with the apical half irregularly and not very thickly punctate, the base 

 smooth, each with four deeply punctate, somewhat oblique striae reaching 

 beyond the middle, nearly to the apex, the inner one distant from the 

 suture, near which is an entire stria recurved at the base and united to the 

 second; on the punctured space between these last at the apex is an in- 

 distinct abbreviated punctate stria; legs piceous, with the anterior tibia? 

 four or five toothed. 



The obscure abbreviated stria, between the sutural and adjoining one, at the 

 apex of the elytra, with the more deeply punctate stria? at the base, and 

 their elongation, distinguish this species. 



Of this insect I have not seen a specimen, and I am not aware 

 of its locality; — it is introduced as British in the work last re- 

 ferred to. 



Sp. 27. maritimus. Oblongo-ovatus, niger, thorace Iwvissimo postice, tenue punc- 

 tato, elytris striis quatuor ultra medium productis, apicz interna punctata. 

 (Long. corp. l| — 2 lin.) 



Hi. maritimus. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Catal. 102. No. 1068.— Hi. variabilis. 

 Leach MSS.—Steph. Catal. 102. No. 1069. 



Oblong-ovate, deep black, slightly shining and convex: thorax smooth, with 

 the anterior and lateral margins impunctate ; the posterior with a narrow 

 edge of impressed dots : elytra with the apex within punctate, each with a 

 punctate stria near the suture, extending to the apex, curved at the scutellum, 

 and descending obliquely across the disc rather beyond the middle, parallel 

 with this last are three other strise, of which the first is rather longest, and at 

 the base is an obsolete rudiment of a fifth stria; the internal apex of the 

 elytra is rather thickly and coarsely punctate : legs pitchy-black; the anterior 



