PTINIU7E. — PTINUS. 333 



Pt. imperials. Limit;. — Steph. Catal. 139. No. 1413. 



Oblongs fuscous ; covered with a whitish down : thorax compressed longitudi- 

 nally in the middle into an elevated carina, terminating posteriorly in a spine : 

 the down on the elytra is more obscure, and is produced on each side into a 

 white sinuated spot, the union of which on both elytra somewhat resembles 

 the figure of an imperial eagle; the apex is also whitish: legs and antennae 

 ferruginous. 



This beautiful species somewhat recedes in habit from the rest of the genus. 



Not very common : found occasionally in hedges throughout the 

 metropolitan district ; I have caught it at Hertford, Daren th-wood, 

 Ripley, Coombe, &c. " Bristol."— G. Waring, Esq. " Copen- 

 hagen-fields and Cobham. 11 — A. Cooper, Esq. " Epping." — Mr. 

 Doubleday. " Whitethorn, GlanvihVs Wootton, and Bristol." — 

 J. C. Dale, Esq. " Battersea-fields." — Mr. Ingpen. 



Sp. 2. rufipes. Qhlongus, nigricans, griseo-puhescens, thorace quadridentato, 



postice impresso, antennis pedibusque rufis. (Long. corp. 2 — 2§ lin.) 

 Pt. rufipes. Fabricius.— Steph. Catal. 140. No. 1415. 



Oblong, dusky : thorax quadridentate, with a posterior impression : elytra deeply 

 punctate-striate, with the shoulders gibbous, and clothed with a griseous 

 pubescence : antennas and legs rufous ; the latter with clavate femora, and 

 the former nearly as long as the body. 



Found with the following insect; of which it is probably the 

 male. 



Sp. 3. Germanus. Oblongo-ovatus fusco-ferrugineus, thorace quadrituberculato, 

 elytris nigro-brunneis,fasciis duabus undulatis punctoque apicis albis. (Long, 

 corp. 2 — 2^ lin.) 



Pt. Germanus. Olivier. — Steph. Catal. 140. No. 1414. 



Oblong-ovate, rusty-brown ; villose : thorax quadridentate : scutellum snowy : 

 elytra punctate-striate, black-brown, with two waved whitish fascia?, and a 

 spot of the same colour at the apex : antennae and legs testaceous. 



Perhaps merely the female of the foregoing. 



Not common : found occasionally in the vicinity of London ; in 

 Norfolk, Suffolk, Devonshire, &c. " Palings near Cobham, June, 

 1830."— A. Cooper, Esq. " Swansea."—/,. W. Dilhoyn, Esq. 



Sp. 4. sexpunctatus. Oblongus, fuscus, pubescens, fronte, scutello, elytrorum 

 fascifi anticd abbreviate, punctisque duobus posticis niveis. (Long. corp. 

 2—2^ lin.) 

 Pt. sexpunctatus. Fabricius.— Tt. Musxorum. Steph. Catal. 140. No. 1416. 



