360 MANDIBULATA. — CGLEOPTERA. 



b. With the body very short and broad. 



Sp. 4. scaber. Ater, antennis tarsisque rufis, elytris punctato-striatis hispidi- 



usculis. (Long. corp. 1 — \\ lin.) 

 Ips scaber. Marsham.- — Hy. scaber. Steph. Catal. 146. JVo. 1471. 



Deep black, slightly shining; very ovate, short: thorax rather coarsely and 

 thickly punctulate ; elytra rather deeply punctate-striated ; with short rigid 

 hairs in the interstices : abdomen deep black : legs black, with the tarsi be- 

 neath ferruginous. 



Three or four examples only of this very distinct species have 

 come beneath my observation : one I obtained from the Marshamian 

 collection, and a second I captured at Ripley in July, 1827. — 

 " Cobham." — A. Cooper, Esq. 



B. With the body clothed with scales. 

 Sp. 5. Fraxini. Niger, subtus dense cinereo-pubescens, supra squamulis cinereis 

 fuscisque variegatus, antennis Jerrugineis, clavti magnet acuminata fused. 

 (Long. corp. 2 — 2g lin.) 

 Bo. Fraxini. Panzer .— Hy. Fraxini. Steph. Catal. 146. No. 1472. 



Black ; beneath densely clothed with an ashy pile, above variegated with cine- 

 - reous and fuscous scales : antennae ferruginous, with alarge acuminated fuscous 



club : legs piceous : tarsi ferruginous. 

 Extremely variable in colour, being of different hues of black, piceous, ferru- 

 ginous, or testaceous, sometimes ochraceous, with the legs and antennae paler. 



Very abundant in decayed ash-trees throughout the metropolitan 

 district. " Black Hall wood." — T. C. Hey sham, Esq. " Common 

 (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dittwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 6. furcatus. Brevis, fusco-ferrugineus, elytris lined obliqud furcata an- 



nuloque ad apicem albis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 

 Ips furcatus. Marsham. — Hy. furcatus. Steph. Catal. 146. No. 1473. 



Dusky-ferruginous : thorax with three longitudinal, waved, interrupted whitish 

 lines : elytra ferruginous ; each with an oblique whitish line, terminating at 

 the base, and furcate ; at the apex is a whitish circle, and near the suture 

 another whitish line : legs ferruginous. 



Probably a variety of the foregoing ; it is however much smaller. 



From the Marshamian collection. 



Sp. 7. coadunatus. Fnscus, coleoptris rufescentibus, maculis obsoletiusculis co- 



adunatis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 

 Ips coadunatus. Marsham. — Hy. coadunatus. Steph. Catal. 146. No. 1474. 



