2*78 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



metropolitan district; in Devonshire, the New Forest, Norfolk, &c. 

 " Southend ?—Rev. F. W. Hope. " Rose Castle."— T. C Hey- 

 sham, Esq. " Bottisham, common." — Rev. L. Jenyns. Var. (3. 

 " Has been taken in the neighbourhood (of Swansea), but is far 

 from common." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Genus CCXXXIL— Campylus, Fischer. 



Antennas rather long, slender, serrated; the basal joint moderately robust; the 

 second abbreviated, subglobose; the third to the tenth nearly of equal length, 

 obconic, elongate; the terminal one slender, longer than the preceding, 

 acuminate. Palpi short: head exserted, subquadrate ; the frontal margin 

 elevated: eyes large, globose, prominent: thorax scarcely broader in front 

 than the head; the sides a little dilated anteriorly, then contracted towards 

 the hinder angles, which are stout, elevated, somewhat bent outwardly and 

 acute : body linear, slightly pubescent : elytra elongate, rounded at the apex : 

 legs elongate, slender; tarsi with simple joints; the fourth somewhat abbre- 

 viated. 



The large projecting eyes of this genus, with the exserted head, 

 prominent, elevated, acute posterior angles of the thorax, linear 

 body, and elongate antennae, well characterize it, and distinguish it 

 from its allies : the only indigenous species is extremely variable in 

 colour ; it occurs upon trees. 



Sp. 1. linearis. Thorace cruce impressd, elytris striato-punctatis : abdomine nigro 



margine anoque testaceis. (Long. corp. B\ — 7 lin.) 

 El. linearis. Linne.—Ca. dispar. Steph. Catal. 127. No. 1294. 



Body beneath black, with the margin and apex, and sometimes the breast, 

 testaceous; above extremely variable in colour: head deeply punctured, 

 black, with the mouth testaceous, or pale testaceous, with the eyes deep 

 brunneous: thorax in both sexes punctate, with a deep dorsal channel, and 

 a transverse impression a little behind the middle, the superficies bright 

 testaceous-red, sometimes with a deep black discoidal spot, or the disc 

 fuscous, with the hinder angles above pale testaceous: scutellum oblong, 

 testaceous or black: elytra punctate-striate, linear, dilated, and rather convex 

 in the female, slightly pubescent, pale testaceous, with the suture' some- 

 times more or less fuscescent, this latter colour occasionally predominating 

 over the entire surface, especially in the females, leaving only the margin 

 itself bright testaceous: legs testaceous, with the femora more or less fus- 

 cescent : antenna; black, varied with testaceous at the base. 



One of the most inconstant species of this most variable family. That the above 

 variations, which, in fact, are mere shades of colour, the fovea and sculplure of 



