30 MANDIBULATA. — COI-EOPTERA. 



cinereous pile, with a bright spot of whitish scales at the base of the suture, 

 and the breast also whitish. 



Found, witlnti the metropolitan district, on the flowers of Coch- 

 learia officinalis, not common : taken at Ripley in 1827. 



Sp. 8. nigrinus. Niger, suhtus dens) alhido-squamosus, thorace depresso obsolete 

 canaliculafo, bituherculato, pustica truncato, ehjtris ohsoletms crenato-sti-iatis 

 cinereo-lineatis, humeris prominulis. (Long. corp. 1 — \^ lin.) 



Cu. nigrinus. Marsham. — Ne. depressicollis. Steph. Catal. 154. No. 1551. 



Black; beneath densely clothed with whitish scales: thorax depressed, with an 

 obsolete dorsal channel, the sides each with an acute tubercle, the hinder mar- 

 gin truncate: elytra obsoletely crenate-striate, the interstices with a row of 

 short cinereous hairs; the shoulders prominent: antennce piceous in the 

 middle : club elongate. 



Differs from its congeners by its depressed thorax, and from the two following 

 species, which it closely resembles, by the suture of the elytra being concolorous 

 with the disc, the club of the antennae being longer, &c. 



Inadvertently called Ne. depressicollis (Gyllenhal's name) in my Catalogue, 

 Mai sham's name having the priority. 



Not uncommon in grassy places throughout the metropolitan 

 district : I have obtained specimens from Somersetshire. " Among 

 herbage on Crwmlyn-burrows, not common." — L. W. D'llhoyn, 

 Esq. 



Sp. 9. constrictus. Niger, cinereo-suhpuhescens, subtiis dense albido-squamosus, 

 eltjtris obsolctiiis crenato-striatis interstitiis cinereo-lineatis, humeris subpro- 

 m,inulis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 



Cu. constrictus. Marsham. — Ne. constrictus. Steph. Catal. 154. No. 1552. 



Black, with a cinereous pubescence ; beneath densely clothed with whitish scales, 

 thorax obscurely channelled ; the disc convex ; the hinder margin somewhat 

 waved; the sides unituberculate : elytra with the shoulders a little prominent, 

 the disc obsoletely crenate-striated, the interstices lineated with cinereous 

 hairs : antennce black. 



Allied to the last, to which Gyllenhal refers it, but differs in having the thorax 

 convex, with its hinder margin waved, the antennae black, &c. 



Frequent throughout the metropolitan district, affecting thick 

 herbage in lanes, fields, &c. " Among herbage on Crwmlyn and 

 Sketty Burrows, not uncommon.'"' — L. W. DUhoyn, Esq. 



Sp. 10. floralis. Niger, sutura corporeque subtus dense albido-squamosis, thorace 

 canaliculato bituberculato subconvexo, basi bisinuato elytris ohsoleti)s crenato- 

 striatis, cinereo-lineatis, humeris prominulis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 



Cu. floralis. Payn^Z.—Ne. floralis. Steph. Catal. \S\. No. 1553. 



