204 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



margins pale: elytra slightly pubescent, with a large discoidal fuscous patch ; 



punctate-striated, the interstices punctulated : body beneath black, with the 



apex pale : legs pale. 

 The pale margins to the thorax, obsoletely trituberculated clypeus, and punctate 



thorax, well characterize this species. 

 Variable in bulk ; but generally much smaller than the foregoing. 



Found not uncommonly within the metropolitan district. I have 

 also received it from Bristol. " Bottisham. 1 ' — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



% Sp. 44. Pecarh Ater, nitidus, elytris striatis ritfis macula communi dorsali 

 nigra, pedibus rufis. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 



Ap. Pecari. Fabricius.—Steph. Catal. 112. No. 1158. 



Glossy, black; clypeus large, entire: thorax rather delicately but sparingly 

 punctate on the lateral margins towards the anterior angles : elytra rufous, 

 with the suture black, which colour expands a little before the middle into a 

 large dorsal patch common to both elytra, which are punctate-striated, with 

 smooth and flat interstices: body beneath black: legs bright rufous. 



Distantly resembling Ap. fimetarius or depressus, but known from both by the 

 black dorsal patch, and from the former by the clypeus not being tuberculated. 



The only indigenous examples I have seen of this conspicuous 

 species are in the collection of the British Museum : they were 

 captured, I believe, in the neighbourhood of Windsor. 



Sp. 4.5. merdarius. Niger, clypeo subemarginato, thoracis angulis anticis sub- 

 ferrugineis, elytris testaceis, suturd nigra. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Sc. merdarius. Olivier.— Martyn, C. pi. 4>.f. 34.— Ap. merdarius. Steph. Catal. 

 112. No. 1159. 



Black, shining : clypeus large, obscurely emarginated : thorax convex, glossy 

 black, smooth, with the anterior angle, and sometimes the lateral margins, 

 testaceous; elytra punctate-striate, yellow-testaceous, with the suture black, 

 and the lateral margin rather dusky ; body black ; legs piceous, or testaceous. 



Known by its small size, bright testaceous-yellow elytra, with a broad black 

 suture, and the anterior margins of the thorax being more or less testaceous. 



Not common throughout the metropolitan district, and in other 

 parts of the south of England. " Bottisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 

 " Near York." — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. "Very common, except 

 on the seashore (near Swansea)." — L. W.Dillzvyn, Esq. 



Sp. 46. phreopterus. Ater, nitidus, elytris pedibus thoracisque lateribus ?-ufo- 



piceis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 Sc. phsopterus. Marsham MSS. — Ap. phseopterus. Steph. Catal. 112. No. 



1160. 



Shining black, beneath piceous: clypeus smooth : thorax very thickly but finely 



