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MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Ma. productus. Olivier.— Steph. Catal. 135. No. 1380. 



Glossy-black: thorax immaculate : elytra rather broader than the thorax, con- 

 vex, finely punctured, with a broad yellow or luteous spot at the apex within : 

 abdomen with the segments slightly edged with yellowish : the four anterior 

 legs yellow, with the base of the femora black : the posterior black in the 

 male, with the apex of the tibia and tarsi pale; flavescent in the female, with 

 the femora black. Male with the apex of the elytra retuse, with a black spine 



" near the suture. 



The totally dark thorax and minute reddish spot at the apex of the elytra suf- 

 ficiently distinguish this species. 



Very rare : the specimens in the British Museum and in my 

 own collection are the only examples I have seen. " Bristol, 

 Devonshire, and Windsor." — Dr. Leach. 



fSp. 14. equestris. Viridi-wneus, elytris rubris maculti scutellari, Jascidque 



oblique pone medium ceneis, femoribus rufis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 

 Ma. equestris. Fabricius. Steph. Catal. 136. No. 1383. 



Brassy-green : thorax immaculate : elytra bright rufous, with a triangular spot 

 at the base, and an oblique fascia a little behind the middle, teneous-black : 

 femora rufous ; tibiae and tarsi aeneous. 



Resembling M. fasciatus, near which it ought most probably to be placed, but 

 differs in having the elytra rufous, with a small spot at the base, and a fascia 

 behind the middle, brassy ; the femora rufous ; thorax aeneous, &c. 



Found near " Bristol." — Dr. Leach. 



fSp. 15. humeralis. Viridi-wneus, elytris basi rubris apice ceneis. (Long. corp. 



If lin.) 

 Ma. humeralis. Leach MS S— Steph. Catal. 136. No. 1384. 

 Brassy-green : elytra rufous at the base, aeneous at the apex. 

 Allied to the last, but the elytra immaculate at the apex. 



In the collection at the British Museum : of its locality I am 

 not aware. 



Genus CCXLII. — Aplocnemus* mild. 



Antenna* abbreviated, composed of transverse articulations, of which the basal 

 one is slightly robust ; the second and third short, nodose ; the remainder, to 



* Bessers' MSS.? name, Elicopis, is too closely allied to Hellicopis of the 

 Systema Glossatorum of Fabricius, published in the sixth volume of Illiger's 

 Magazine, to be retained. I have therefore been compelled to substitute the 

 present appellation, from Aa-Xaa;, simplex; waft*, tibia?. 



