320 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Da. jeratus. Steph. Catal 136. No. 1393. 



Elongate, brassy- or bluish-black, pilose; finely punctured: forehead slightly 

 depressed : elytra elongate, dilated towards the apex, which is somewhat ob- 

 tuse: body glossy black beneath: legs and antennae also black, the latter 

 slightly serrated in the males. 



Broader, and of a brighter aeneous hue, with the antennae in both sexes more 

 slender than in the following insect. 



Not very uncommon in hedges amongst nettles in the vicinity 

 of London. " Glanville"^ Wootton, on apple-blossoms." — J. C. 

 Bale, Esq. " Kew."— Rev . T. T. Haverfield. " Sketty Burrows, 

 and occasionally on willows." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 6. serricornis. Lineari-elongatus, nigro-ceneus, suhpubescens, thorace sub- 

 transverso, pedibus antennisque atris, his extrorsum serratis. (Long. corp. 

 2 lin.) 



Da. serricornis. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 137- No. 1394. 



Linear-elongate, deep brassy-black, pubescent ; finely punctured : head broad ; 



forehead depressed, rugose : thorax somewhat transverse: elytra linear-oblong, 



flexile, slightly punctate : legs and antennae entirely lack, the latter strongly 



serrated towards the apex. Tibia? sometimes fuscescent. 

 More elongate, of a deeper hue, and the antennae more acutely serrated than in 



Da. aeratus. 



Found near London, and in Suffolk, but not common. 



Sp. 7. fiavipes. Lineari-elongatus, nigro-virescens, hirtus, tenue punctulatus, 



antennarum basi tibiisque testaceis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 

 Me. fiavipes. Olivier.— -Da. fiavipes. Steph. Catal. 137. No. 1395. 



Linear-elongate, greenish-black ; pubescent, delicately punctured : forehead im- 

 pressed: thorax with the lateral and hinder margins rounded: elytra elongate, 

 flexile, finely punctured : body black : first pair of legs nearly all testaceous, 

 posterior black, with the tibiae alone testaceous : antennae black, with two or 

 three of the basal joints testaceous. 



Distinguished from the two preceding species, by having the base of the an- 

 tennae and the tibiae testaceous. 



Common from June to August, in thick hedges, within the 

 metropolitan district. " GlanvilleV Wootton." — J. C. Dale, Esq. 

 " Swansea, not unfrequently found among herbage." — L. W. 

 Dilhoyn, Esq. 



Sp. 8. linearis. Plate xix. f. 4. — Filiformi-elongatus, pallide virescens, 

 opacus, punctatissimus, abdomine lineari ceneo-nitido. (Long. corp. 2 — 2f 

 lin.) 



Da. linearis. Fabricivs.— Steph. Catal. 137. No. 1396. 



