94 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Fuscous, clothed with griseous pubescence: thorax deep fuscous, with three 

 narrow testaceous lines, the lateral ones a httle curved: el;yira testaceous, 

 punctate-striate, the interstices finely coriaceous, the suture pale, immaculate 

 at the base, the apex strongly dentate with black and white, the disc with an 

 abbreviated black streak at the base, towards the scutellum, faintly edged ex- 

 ternally with ashy; a second black streak towards the apex, strongly edged 

 within with testaceous ash ; and a third, abbreviated at each extremity near 

 the outer margin, bordered without with a pale Une : antenna; ferruginous, 

 with the club dusky. 



Very closely allied to, if not a variety of, the foregoing species. 



More abundant than the last; found in corn-fields within the 

 metropolitan district, in June. " Moss-head, Cumberland."" — T. C. 

 Heysliam, Esq. " Inverness." — Mr. G. WaterJiouse. " Near Edin- 

 burgh."— i^^i;. W. Little. 



Sp. 5. canescens. Niger, squamis canescentibus omnino teclus, thorace trilineaio, 



antennis piceis clavd fused. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 

 Hy. canescens. Steph. Catal. 168. No. 1711. 



Black, densely clothed throughout with hoary scales : head small, with a deep 

 frontal impression : thorax hoary testaceous, with three rather obscure pale 

 cinereous lines : elytra i^wxcXdiie-striate, the interstices slightly elevated, and 

 all uniformly clothed with hoary scales : body beneath and legs black, with 

 hoary scales ; the tarsi somewhat piceous. 



Some examples are a little inclined to fuscous or testaceous ; but all have the 

 elytra immaculate, and of an uniform colour. 



Taken in the vicinity of London, and also near Bristol ; but not 

 very abundantly. 



Sp. 6. Vicise. Niger, cinereo-squamulosus, rostra breviori, thorace subdepresso, 

 laterihus valide dilatato, elytris seriatmifusco-maculatis. (Long. corp. 3 hn.) 



Rh. Vicise. GyllenhaL—Uy. Vicife. Steph. Catal. 168. A^o. 1712. 



Black, clothed ivith cinereous scales : head slightly pubescent : forehead with a 

 depression : thorax slightly depressed, with the sides considerably dilated, and 

 densely squamous, the back somewhat denuded, with an obscure whitish line 

 in the middle : scutellum griseous : elytra entirely clothed with ashy-white 

 scales and hairs, with five rows of denuded fuscous spots : body beneath 

 densely clothed with silvery-white scales : legs rather long, black, with an 

 ashy pubescence : antennae black, piceous at the base. 



Rather variable in the colour of the scales, which are sometimes seneous, or of a 



<Tolden hue : — the breast, abdomen, and elytra are sometimes testaceous, with 



brassy-yellow scales, and the head, thorax, and legs of a dull fuscous-brown, 



with the rostrum black ; probably immature. 



Not very common : found in June within the metropolitan dis- 



