MELYRIDjE. MALACHIUS. 



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Blue-black ; glabrous : tbe thorax entirely rufous : elytra immaculate : posterior 



tibiae pale rufous. 

 Known by its immaculate elytra and totally rufous thorax. 



In the collection at the British Museum. " New Forest." — 

 Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 10. rubricollis. Niger, hirtus, ore albido, thorace toto, elytrorumque apice 

 pallide rufis, elytris nigro-cceruleis, pedibus nigris. (Long. corp. 1 — 1| lin.) 

 Ca. rubricollis. Marsham.— Ma. rubricollis. Steph. Catal. 135. No. 1377. 



Black, pilose: mouth whitish or rufescent : thorax entirely rufous: elytra blue- 

 black, with a minute rufous spot at the apex within : abdomen with the 

 margins of the segments rufescent: legs totally black. Male with the apex of 

 the elytra truncate obliquely from the margin to the suture. 



The small rufous spot at the apex of the elytra, and the totally rufous thorax 

 and black legs, distinguish this species. 



I have found this in the utmost profusion on grass by the road- 

 side, near Hertford ; and also somewhat plentifully in other parts 

 within the metropolitan district. " Bristol." — J. C. Dale, Esq. 



Sp. 11. pulicarius. Obscure viridi-aneus, ore albido, thoracis lateribus rubris, 



elytris pubescentibus, apice luteo-rufis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 

 Ma. pulicarius. Fabricius.— Steph. Catal. 135. No. 1378. 



Dull brassy-green : mouth whitish or flavescent : thorax with its lateral margins 

 pale rufous : elytra pubescent, with the apex of a luteous-red ; abdomen with 

 the margins of the segments slightly margined with flavescent : legs greenish- 

 tarsi, especially the anterior, pale: antennae pale, with a black line above. 

 Male with the apex of the elytra obliquely excised. 



Differs from the foregoing by having the disc of the thorax black, and the an- 

 tennas pale beneath. 



Not very common, the only localities I know being on the banks 

 of a lane near Peckham, and in the Kent-road, near the Surrey 

 Canal Bridge. " Gardens, Walworth.'"' — Mr. Ingpen. 



Sp. 13. productus. — Plate xix. f. 3, $. — Niger nitidus, antennarum basi, 

 elytrorum apice pedibusque Jlavis, femoribus basi nigris. (Long. corp. 1 — 1^ 

 lin.) 



f Sp. 12. pedicularius. Ater, thorace marginato, immaculate, elytrorum apice 



ntfi, antennis Jiliformibus. 

 Ma. pedicularius. Olivier. — Turton f! J— Steph. Catal. 135. No. 1379. note. 



Black; thorax margined, immaculate : elytra tipped with red : antennae filiform. 

 Turton indicates this as British, but I have never seen a specimen. 



