262 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Black, slightly pubescent: head very faintly punctulated : thorax somewhat 

 glossy, the sides rounded and margined, dilated in the middle, with the pos- 

 terior angles acute, prominent and concolorous ; the disc convex, thickly and 

 finely punctulate, with a slightly elevated smooth glabrous dorsal ridge : 

 elytra ovate, with the apex obtusely rounded, slightly depressed and faintly 

 striated, the striae smooth, and the interstices flat, scarcely punctulated ; each 

 elytron with a pale yellowish spot on the shoulder, and a smaller rounded one 

 towards the apex : mouth and legs pale yellowish : antennae black, with the 

 base testaceous. 



Var. p. Steph. Catal. I. c. Var. y. — With the elytra immaculate : the legs ru- 

 fescent. 



Occasionally found near London, and in Norfolk. " Devonshire, 

 on the banks of rivers.'" — Dr. Leach. " Epping-.' 1 — Mr. Double- 

 day. " Battersea-fields, July, 1820." — Mr. Ingpen. " At times 

 rather plentiful on the sand hills (near Swansea), particularly about 

 Sketty Burrows." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. Var. S. " Sidmoutli, 

 Devon."— T. Marshall, Esq. " Dublin."— N. A. Vigors, Esq. 



Sp. 5. Dermestoides. Niger subpuhescens, thorace non carinato, angulis posticis 

 concolorihus, elytris immaculatis. (Long. corp. lj— 1^ lin.) 



El. Dermestoides. JTerbst.—N. G. 4-pustulatus /3? — Steph. Catal. 124. No. 

 1261. 



Black, slightly pubescent ; thorax short, finely punctured, with the posterior 

 angles concolorous : the elytra immaculate, faintly striated, the striae im- 

 punctate, the interstices flat, scarcely punctured: antennae and legs pale 

 testaceous. 



Found in company with the preceding insect, but rarely. 



Sp. 6. pulchellus. Oblongus, niger, convexus, thorace elongato carinato, elytris 



Jlavo-maculatis, pedibus pallidis. (Long. corp. 1^ — if lin.) 

 El. pulchellus. Linns'.— N. G. pulchellus. Steph. Catal. 124. iVb. 1261. 



Oblong, black, convex : head thickly rugose-punctate : thorax elongate, the sides 

 rounded, dilated in the middle, the posterior angles acute carinated ; the disc 

 very convex, thickly and finely rugulose longitudinally, with an abbreviated 

 glabrous smooth, dorsal ridge: elytra rather convex, deeply punctate-striated, 

 the interstices somewhat carinated, and granulated; the disc more or less 

 spotted with pale-yellowish, and sometimes nearly immaculate : legs and 

 apex of the body pale-testaceous; antennae ferruginous, with the tips dusky. 



Rare: taken in Devonshire and Wales. " Capel Cerig." — JIT. 

 Eyton. Esq. 



