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MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Sp. 1 4^ Avellante. Ovatus, niger, antennis tibiis tarsisque testaceis, elytris plagG 

 magna lobatd baseos fascidque posticd abbreviatd albido-pilosis. (Long. corp. 

 1-li lin.) 



Cu. Avellanae. Donovan, vi. pL 205. /. 3.— Or. signifer. Creutzer. — Steph. Catal. 

 161. iVo. 1646. 



Ovate, black : head opaque, slightly pubescent : eyes dusky brown : rostrum 

 black, substriated : antennce pale testaceous, with the club dusky : thorax rather 

 broad, with whitish pubescence, more densely clothed in front : elytra obscure 

 black, punctate-striate, with a large lohate common patch, composed of two 

 lunules of whitish hairs at the base, and extending down the suture to the 

 middle; and beyond this towards the apex is an abbreviated white transverse 

 narrow /H5c/a, and at the apex itself are some ferruginous hairs: femora 

 black; tibia and tarsi testaceous. 



Donovan's name was published at least six years before Creutzer's, consequently 

 has the priority, although my inadvertence has again been implicitly followed. 



Found abundantly on hazels within the metropolitan district, 

 especially in Coombe and Darenth Woods : also near Bristol. 



Sp. 15. X-album. Ovatus, niger, coleoptris striatis lunulis duabus coadunatis 



albidis baseos, tibiis tarsisque testaceis. (Long. corp. IJ lin.) 

 Or. X-album. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Catal. 162. No. 1647. 



Ovate, black, slightly pubescent: elytra striated, each with a lunular whitish 



spot at the base, united in the centre, and forming an Italian X, the apex 



immaculate : tibiw and tarsi obscure testaceous. 

 Probably a variety of the foregoing insect, wanting the posterior fascia on the 



elytra, and having a black spot near the scutellum within the pale lunules at 



the base. 



Found in the vicinity of London, and in Suffolk. 



Sp. 16. bifasciatus. Ovatus, niger, antennis tarsisque testaceis, elytrorum suturd 

 baseos fascitsque duabus macularibus, approximatis, albido-pilosis. (Long. corp. 

 1-li Hn.) 



Cu. bifasciatus. Paykul.— Or. bifasciatus. Steph. Catal. 162. No. 1648. 



Ovate, black: head opaque, slightly pubescent: eyes dusky brown: thorax with 

 the base somewhat bisinuated, the disc rather glossy, deeply punctate and 

 irregularly clothed with whitish pubescence : scutellum black : elytra a little 

 shining, moderately punctate-striate, the interstices slightly convex and 

 smooth, with an elongate densely pilose white stria near the scutellum, a 

 slightly bent fascia of whitish spots toivards the middle, and a little behind 

 another nearly straight, which is sometimes ochraceous: legs black; tarsi 

 alone testaceous : antennae pale testaceous. 



