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Sp. 2. minuta. Nigro-wnea, subnitida, pilosa, front e impressd, elytris incequa- 

 libus saturatioribus, fasciis undatis albido-pilosis. (Long. corp. 1~ — l^lin.) 



Bu. minuta. Linne. — Don. viii. pi. 256. — Tr. minuta. Steph. Catal. 120. No. 

 1823. 



Brassy-black or bluish, tinted with cupreous or greenish, slightly shining, 

 pilose: forehead deeply excavated: thorax with a transverse abbreviated 

 striga on each side within the apex, and an entire punctate one within the 

 base: elytra unequal, with obsolete dispersed punctures, and four narrow 

 undulated transverse fasciae composed of a whitish pubescence : body beneath 

 smooth brassy-black ; legs and antennae black, tinged with brass. 



Slightly variable in colour, as above indicated. 



Not uncommon on the hazel and birch in Coombe and Darenth- 

 woods, and in other parts in the vicinity of London. " Norwood-" 

 — A. Cooper, Esq. 



Sp. 3. nana. Obscure nigro-subcenea glabra, fronte excavatd, elytris triangu- 

 laribus, punctato-svbstriatis lined laterali elevatd. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 



Tr. nana. Fabricius.— Steph. Catal. 120. No. 1224. 



Dull slightly brassy-black, glabrous; the forehead broadly impressed below, 

 the vertex slightly channelled; thorax a little punctate, with the lateral 

 margins on both sides unequally impressed: elytra nearly triangular, above 

 slightly convex, black, with a trifling brassy tinge, glabrous, with rather 

 large impressed dots disposed nearly in rows ; and within the lateral margin 

 an elevated abbreviated ridge, which is sometimes rather obsolete : body be- 

 neath, legs, and antennae black, the former scarcely punctulated. 



Two specimens are in my collection, taken in Coombe-wood in 

 June, one by myself, the other by a practical collector, the late 

 J. Sharp. 



Genus CCXVIIL— Melasis, Olivier. 



Antenna; pectinated in the male, serrated in the female ; the first joint in the 

 male long and slender; the second minute, globose; third short, subovate; 

 the remainder pectinated : in the female the basal joint long and bent ; the 

 second and third of equal length, subcylindric ; the remainder produced in- 

 ternally. Labruvi minute, slightly emarginate : palpi, maxillary pilose, with 

 the terminal joint large, dilated in the middle and slightly truncate; labial 

 with the terminal joint large, truncated, pilose : labium bifid : head broad, 

 deeply immersed in the thorax, which is emarginate anteriorly, and produced 

 at the posterior angles on each side into an acute spine : scutellum elongate : 

 body cylindric: legs short ; tibiae broad, flat; tarsi compressed, entire. 



The incrassated terminal joint of the palpi forms the most pro- 

 minent distinction of this genus from its allies, from which it also 



