102 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Cu. elongatus. Paykul. — Hy. elongata. Steph. Catal. 169. No. 1733. 



Black, clothed with cinereous pubescence : head short, slightly pubescent, flat 

 between the eyes : rostrum rather short, slightly thickened and curved, 

 with an obsolete carina, and a little pubescent : thorax rounded, somewhat 

 trilineated, obsoletely channelled in the middle : elytra rather elongated, a 

 little depressed anteriorly, the apex declining, moderately punctate- striate, 

 the lateral interstices obsoletely marked with fuscous and cinereous: legs 

 elongate, stout, ashy-pubescent : antennae ferruginous, with the club dusky 

 black. 



Also rare : my specimens were from the Marsliamian collection, 

 but I have seen several that were captured near Edinburgh. " Rae- 

 hills, rare." — Rev. W. Little. 



Sp. 28. pedestris. Nigra, pube squamulisque cinereis wgualiter obducta, rostro 



breviori arcuato, thorace convexo utrinque rotundato. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 

 Cu. pedestris. Paykul. — Hy. pedestris. Steph. Catal. 169. No. 1734. 



Black : regularly and rather sparingly clothed with cinereous scales and a slight 

 pubescence: rostrum, rather short, curved, with the apex glabrous: thorax 

 slightly pubescent, immaculate, convex, rounded on both sides : elytra also 

 sparingly pubescent, punctate-striate, without denuded spots : body beneath 

 clothed with silver-ashy scales: legs black. 



Also rare, and found near Edinburgh : I possess a pair from the 

 Marshamian cabinet : — the insect has been taken within the metro- 

 politan district. 



Sp. 29. Miles. Atra, detise cinereo-pubescens et squamulosa, rostro breviori 

 arcuato, thorace convexo utrinque rotundato, elytris fusco-punctatis. (Long. 

 Corp. 3 lin.) 



Cu. Miles. Paykul.— By. Miles. Steph. Catal. 169. No. 1735. 



Black ; densely clothed with an ashy pubescence and scales: head thickly punc- 

 tured, with a channel between the eyes : rostrum rather short, curved, pu- 

 bescent, punctured, with the apex glabrous: thorax moderately convex, 

 rounded on both sides, which, with the inner surface, are clothed with short 

 hair-like shining metallic scales, and on the back a narrow longitudinal streak 

 of the same: elytra rather short, broad and convex, sUghtly depressed from 

 the middle to the apex, striated, the striae evidently punctate; the interstices 

 rather convex, clothed with ashy or metallic-brown scales, the alternate ones 

 with a series of denuded spots : body clothed with silvery scales beneath : legs 

 short, black, with ashy pubescence; the claws ferruginous. 



Not common : taken near London and in Somersetshire. " On 

 Crwmlyn-burrows.'" — L. W. D'lllwyn, Esq. 



