76 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Cu. ater. Marsham. — An. ater. Steph. Catal. 164. No. 1675. 



Black, slightly pubescent, somewhat cinereous beneath: head rather glossj;. 

 finely punctured : thorax opaque, somewhat rugose, with a transverse im- 

 pression within the anterior margin : scutellum black : elytra punctate-striate, 

 the interstices convex and a little shining : antenna; totally and legs black : 

 rostrum opaque, elongate, somewhat scabrous, slender. 



Found near London in gardens and meadows where willows 

 abound. " I believe it has been taken (near Swansea)." — L. W. 

 Dillwi/n, Esq. 



Sp. 9. Rubi. Niger, tenue pubescens, scutello albo, antennarum bast, genuhus, 

 tarsisque piceis, thorace confertissime subtiliter punctulato. (Long. corp. 1^ — 1| 

 lin.) 



Cu. Rubi. Herbst.—Axi. Rubi. Steph. Catal. 164. No. 1676. 



Black, slightly pubescent, beneath somewhat cinereous : head slightly punctate, 

 with a frontal impression : thorax a little narrowed in front, opaque, finely 

 granulate-punctate, clothed with a short cinereous pubescence: scutellum 

 white : elytra opaque, deeply punctate-striate, with the interstices sparingly 

 clothed with ashy down : legs black, with the base of the femora, the joints, 

 and the ta7-si iusco-piceous : antennce with the base ferruginous or piceous, the 

 apex and club black : body beneath with the apex sometimes piceous ; and 

 the pubescence on the thorax occasionally disposed in three obsolete lines. 



Not uncommon in gardens upon willows and potherbs, throughout 

 the metropolitan district : also found in Devonshire, Norfolk, Suf- 

 folk, &c. 



Sp. 10. clavatus. Niger, subpubescens ; elylris striatis, scutello atro, rostro 



clavato, clavd compressd. (Long. corp. l| lin.) 

 Cu. clavatus. Marsham. — An. clavatus. Steph. Catal. 164. No. 1679. 



Black, slightly pubescent: head small: thorax large, somewhat globose, the 

 sides rounded, opaque, scabrous : scutellum black : elytra opaque, striated, 

 the interstices somewhat flat, and clothed with ashy pubescence : legs black : 

 body beneath clothed with silvery scales : rostrum slender at the base, the 

 apex abruptly clavate, the club compressed ; palpi large, exposed, testaceous. 



Marsham considered the exposed palpus of my example of this odd insect (the 

 only one I have seen) to be a sort of hook attached to the rostrum, the 

 singular structure of which one might suppose originated in a monstrosity, were 

 it not that there is no other indigenous species to which it could possibly 

 belong ; I therefore conclude that it is one of those unique productions that 

 nature so constantly throws in the way of the naturalist. 



I know not the locality of this insect. 



