324 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



domen reddish : legs elongate pale testaceous : the femora with a fuscous ring- 

 near the apex : antenna pale ferruginous. 

 The fasciae on the elytra vary much : in one of my specimens they are sub- 

 divided into several small patches., and in another the anterior one is prolonged 

 down the suture, and becomes confluent with the inner end of the posterior 

 one. • 



Found occasionally in the fields to the north of London; and 

 I have captured two or three specimens at Coombe-wood, and 

 several at Darenth, in hedges, in June. " Windsor. 11 — Dr. Leach. 

 " On an old oak, Holloway." — A. Cooper, Esq. " Kew, under 

 the bark of trees." — Rev. T. T. Haverjield. 



Sp. 2. fasciatus. Ater, villosus, elytris fascia pone medium alba, antennarum 



basi tibiis tarsisque ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 2^ — 3 lin.) 

 Op. fasciatus. Wilkin MSS.—Steph. Catal. 138. No. 1402.— Curtis, vi. pi. 270. 



Fuscous-black, villose: head thickly punctured: thorax deeply punctured, with 

 a finely punctate, rather deep, sulcus down the back : elytra very coarsely 

 punctured, the punctures sub-confluent, with a transverse whitish or pale 

 ochraceous fascia a little behind the middle ; legs ferruginous, with the base 

 of the femora black: antennae pale ferruginous at the base, dusky towards the 

 tip. 



The fascia on the elytra varies a little in colour and form ; in my specimen it is 

 white and straight: and the thorax, which has been described from a drawing, 

 has a deep dorsal punctate sulcus, and is not smooth, down the centre. 



Three specimens only have been taken of this pretty insect, of 

 which two were captured in the woods near Winchmore-lrill, by 

 Mr. Shillingford. 



Genus CCXLVI. — Thanasimus, Latreille. 



Antenna submoniliform, the basal joints subcylindric ; the seventh to the tenth 

 turbinate ; the terminal one ovate, large, obliquely acuminated ; the three last 

 forming a triarticulate club. Palpi, maxillary filiform ; labial with the ter- 

 minal joint clavate, securiform : head as broad as the thorax, which is sub- 

 cordate; tarsi distinctly five-jointed. 



Thanasimus agrees with Tillus in having the tarsi distinctly five- 

 jointed, but differs in the antennse being distinctly clavate, and not 

 serrated ; and from the rest of the family by the former characters, 

 exclusively of other less obvious distinctions. They frequent rotten, 

 or fresh cut, trees. 



