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the base, towards the anterior angles, two rounded yellow spots : elytra rather 

 irregularly punctate-striated, each with three yellow spots, the basal one beino- 

 emarginated anteriorly : body slightly pubescent beneath : legs and antennae 

 blue-black. 

 The yellow spots vary in form and sometimes in number, especially on the head 

 and thorax; and one of my specimens has two deeply impressed spots anterior 

 to the yellow marks on the thorax. 



The only locality I am aware of for tins remarkable species, which 

 will probably form the type of a new genus hereafter, is " Cocker- 

 mouth, in Cumberland, taken abundantly, in July, 1817." — Dr. 

 Leach. 



Genus CCXVI. — Aphanisticus, Latreille. 



Antenna; clavate; basal joint stout, oblong, bent at the base; second globose; 

 five following of nearly equal length, slender ; the remainder forming a ser- 

 rated club, the terminal joint of which is obliquely ovate. Labrum entire, 

 widened anteriorly: mandibles acute: palpi, maxillary with the terminal 

 joint short, pear-shaped : head deeply emarginate in front : eyes small, placed 

 anteriorly : thorax margined, subquadrate, narrowed before : elytra coarctate 

 towards the base; the apex attenuated and rounded: wings short: femora 

 very robust; tibice] short, stout; tarsi with dilated joints, terminated by a 

 single claw. 



From the other genera of the family, Aphanisticus differs in 

 having the antennae clavate, the forehead deeply sulcated, the 

 labrum entire, narrowed at the base; the thorax margined, the 

 terminal joint of the maxillary palpi acute, the four basal joints of 

 the tarsi dilated, and the terminal one with a single claw. 



Sp. 1. pusillus. Elongatus nigro-wneus, thoracis lateribus cxplanatis, elytris 



rude punctato-striatis. (Long. corp. 1^ — if lin.) 

 Bu. pusilla. Gyllenhal.—Ap. emarginatus. Steph. Catal. 129. No. 1221.— Ap. 



pusillus. Curtis, yi.pl. 262. 



+Sp« 6. Rubi. JEneo-niger, elytris Jasciis cinereis undatis. (Long. corp. 6 lin.) 

 Bu. Rubi. Linne.— Turton (.').— Ag. Rubi. Steph. Catal. 120. No. 1219, 

 note. 



Bronzed-black ; forehead with a deep impression : thorax unequal, foveolated : 

 elytra dull bronze, with about four transverse undulated cinereous fasciae: 

 antenna? and legs black, slightly tinted with itneous. 



This species is also indicated as a native of Britain by Turton, but without ap- 

 parent authority. 



