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MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Cu. scortillum. Herbst— Am. scortillum, SiepL Catal. 159. No. 1618. 



Black, beneath whitish: head slightly pubescent, thickly punctured: thorax 

 sparingly pilose, with its lateral margins and beneath densely clothed with 

 whitish scales: its disc rather deeply and somewhat thickly punctate: elytra 

 anteriorly hhck, posteriorly rufous ; with the base of the suture whitish, the 

 disc deeply punctate-striated, with the interstices nearly smooth : legs rufo- 

 testaceous, coxse black : antennae rufo-piceous. 



The red at the apex of the elytra varies in extent in different specimens. 



Not uncommon in June in the neighbourliood of London, espe- 

 cially in Battersea-fields, and at Ripley. 



Sp. 2. castaneus. Rufo-piceus, subtus albido-sguamosus ; elytris dilutius cas- 



taneo-rufis, apice pallidioribus ; pedibus rufis. (Long. corp. 1 Un.) 

 Cr. .? castaneus. Wilkin^ MSS.— An. castaneus. Sleph. Catal 159. No. 1619. 



Rufo-piceous, beneath whitish : head and thorax as in the last: elytra of a pale 

 rufous, inclining to castaneous, with the apex indeterminately ^a/er; the disc 

 punctate-striated, with the suture concolorous: legs pale rufous. 



Although this is esteemed distinct from the foregoing, I cannot beheve it to be 

 otherwise than an immature state thereof. 



Found near London, and in Norfolk. 



Genus CCXCV. — Tychius, Germar. 



Antennae geniculated, 12-jointed, rather short and stout ; funiculus 7- rarely 6- 

 jointed, with two or three basal joints rather long, obconic ; the first in- 

 crassated; the remainder short, with the apex truncate; club oblong-ovate. 

 Rostrum elongate, bent, rather thickened, with the apex a little attenuated ; 

 eyes large, rounded: thorax transverse, narrowed anteriorly, with the sides 

 more or less rounded: e/^^ra suboval, moderately convex: legs rather stout 

 and short; tibim short, compressed, the apex truncate, excavated, angulated 

 within, and furnished with a minute hook : body densely squamose. 



The attenuated rostrum, and densely squamous, elongate-ovate, 

 body, combined with its globose rounded thorax, sufficiently distin- 

 guish this genus ; and from Cryptorhynchus it differs by wanting 

 the pectoral groove. 



A. With the femora dentate. 



Sp. 1. quinquepunctatus. Plate xx. f. 3. — Niger, supra squamulis purpura- 

 scenti-aureis, subtus niveis, tectus, elytrorum suturd maculisque quatuor albo- 

 squaviosis, antennis tibiisque ftrrugineis. (Long. corp. 2g Un.) 



Cu. 5-puuctatus. Linne.—Ty. 5-punctatus. Steph. Catal. 159. iVo. 1620. 



