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stices each with a row of minute points, and a dusky pubescent line : body 

 beneath ashy-white : rostrum shghtly bent. 

 It is possible that this insect may be a more perfect state of the preceding, with 

 the pubescence unworn ; but its sculpture is less profound. 



Taken near the metropolis ; also near Bristol and in Suffolk. 



Sp. 3. Artemisise. Niger, nitidus, glaber, thorace profnude punctato, elytris 



striatis, inter stitiis seriatim pmctatis. (Long. corp. 1^^ — if lin.) 

 Rh. Artemisise. i^aZ>Wc/w.s.—Ba. Artemisise. Stefh. Catal. 149. No. 1502. 



Shining black, glabrous ; rostrum considerably arcuated and thickly punctate : 

 thorax bisinuated at the base, the disc thickly and very deeply punctured: 

 elytra striated, the strise subcrenate, the interstices broad, flat, each with a 

 regular series of minute impressions : tarsi piceous : antennae piceous at the 

 base, with the apex and club black. 



Found in damp hedges, and in sandy places at the roots of Ar- 

 temesia vulgaris in May and June. " Southend." — Rev. F. W. 

 Hope. 



Sp. 4. picicornis. Niger, supra atro-coeruleus, antennis piceis, thorace punctato, 



elytris striatis. (Long. corp. l| — 2 lin.) 

 Cu. picicornis. Marsham. — Ba. picicornis. Steph. Catal. 149. No. 1503. 



Black, shining, above deep blue ; thorax deeply punctate, narrowed anteriorly : 

 elytra striated, the interstices somewhat irregularly, but finely, punctured ; 

 legs black, with the tarsi slightly rufescent : antennae rufo-piceous, with the 

 club large. 



Found in grassy and damp places, in the flowers of Reseda 

 lutea, &c. in June; not uncommon near London; also in Norfolk. 

 " Gravesend." — Mr. Bainbridge, 



Sp. 5. impunctatus. Niger, supra caruleus, thorace sublaevi, elytris striatis, 



interstitiis impunctatis. (Long. corp. l| lin.) 

 St. impunctatus. Kirly MSS.—Ba.. impunctatus. Steph. Catal. 149. No. 1504. 



Black, above bluish ; thorax obscurely punctured : elytra striated, the strife ob- 

 soletely punctate, with the interstices impunctate. 



Taken near London, and in Suffolk. 



Genus CCLXXV.— Mecinus, Germar. 



Antenna; geniculated, 10-jointed, short, moderately stout; funiculus 5-jointed, 

 its two basal joints obconic ; the second longest; the rest transverse; club 



