CUIICULIONI DM. AMA1,US. 



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Black: head delicately punctured : thorax with an obsolete dorsal carina, rather 

 deeply punctured, and with a few minute scattered hairs : elytra sUghtly 

 glossy, deeply and broadly crenate-striate, the interstices flat, smooth, obscurely 

 pilose: scutellum rounded, whitish: body deeply punctured beneath, with the 

 sides of the breast clothed with a dense whitish pubescence : antenrus black, 

 with the two basal joints testaceous : rostrum thickly punctate at the base. 

 Not uncommon at Coombe and Darenth Woods, and in other 



places abounding in birch and alder. " Black Hall Wood."— 



T. C. Heysham^ Esq. 



Sp. 2. nitidulus. Niger nitidus, scutello concohre. (Long. corp. 1 hn.) 

 Rh. nitidulus. Wilkin? MSS.—An. nitidulus. Steph. Catal. 159. No. 1616. 

 Shining black: head and thorax as in the last: elytra shining, crenate-striated, 



the interstices impunctate: scutellum black: legs black: antenna; plceous at 



the base. 

 Probably a variety from age of the foregoing insect. 



Taken near London, and in Norfolk. 



Sp. 3. atratus. Niger nitidus, scutello antennarumque basi concoloribus. (Long. 



corp. 1 lin.) 

 Rh. atratus. Wilkin? MSS.-Axi. atratus. Steph. Catal. 159. No. 1617. 

 Similar to the two last: of a deep glossy black, with the scutellum and antenna; 



entirely also deep black. 

 Likewise in all probability a mere variety of the first species. 



Found with the foregoing insects. 



Genus CCXCIV.— Amalus, ScUnherr. 



Antennw geniculated, 11-jointed, somewhat elongate and slender; funiculus 

 6-jointed, its basal joint rather long, thick, obconic, the two foUowing also 

 long, slender, the remainder somewhat rounded ; club oblong-ovate, quadri- 

 artiralate. Rostrum free, elongate, slender, cyhndric, curved: thorax convex, 

 narrowed anteriorly, bisinuated posteriorly: scutellum minute: elytra ample, 

 subovate, convex, shorter than the abdomen, with the shoulders obtusely 

 angled: legs rather stout, anterior approximating at the base ;/emom un- 

 armed ; tibia straight, also unarmed. 



Amalus differs from Cryptorhynchus and its allies by wanting 

 the groove beneath the thorax for the reception of the rostrum 

 during repose, and also by having the antennse 11-jointed only. 



Sp. 1. scortiUum. Niger, subtus albido-squamosus, pedihus ruhris, elytris pro- 

 funde punctato-striatis, apice rufis, suturd basi albo-squamosct (Long. corp. 

 1 lin.) 



