112 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



and Devonshire. " Among grass, in woods (near Swansea), not 

 common."— L. W. Dillwyn, E.sq. " Raehills."— J?^t;. W. Little. 



Genus CCCXX. — Leiophljeus, Gerrnar. 



AntenncE geniculated, 12-jointed, rather long and slender, with the scape clavate 

 and reaching beyond the eyesj funiculus with the three basal joints rather 

 long , obconic ; the fourth shor ter, also obconic ; the remainder gradually shorter, 

 turbinated; the club elongate-ovate, acuminate. Rostrum nutant, short, 

 rounded, rather thick, with the apex stouter : eyes rounded, a little prominent : 

 thorax transverse, truncate anteriorly and posteriorly, with the sides con- 

 siderably rounded, the disc transversely convex : scuiellum triangular, distinct : 

 elytra ample, very convex, equal, not emarginated anteriorly, the shoulders 

 obtusely angulated : body apterous: legs rather long, siovA: femora clavate, 

 armed with a small tooth : tibiae rounded, dilated at the apex, truncate, un- 

 armed: tarsi cAidXeA. 



Leiophlseus may be known from its allies by not having the elytra 

 emarginated within at the base, combined with its distinct scutellum, 

 moderately long and thickened rostrum, and ample elytra: the 

 species are always apterous. 



Sp. 1. nubilus. Niger, opacus, dense cinereo-squamosus, antennis rtifo-piceis, 

 thorace subtiliter coriaceo, siibcarinato, elytris punctato-striatis, maculis fusco- 

 squamosis tessellatis. (Long. corp. 3^ — 5^ lin.) 



Cu. nubilus. Fabricius.— Millard, pl.'^.f. 9. — Li. nubilus. Steph. Catal. 172. 

 No. 1750. 



Black, opaque, densely clothed with ashy-scales : head with a small impression 

 between the eyes : rostrum finely coriaceous : thorax finely granulate-coria- 

 ceous, clothed with narrow, depressed, ashy scales, especially on the sides and 

 beneath, and with an obsolete, abbreviated, elevated dorsal line : scutellum 

 ashy : elytra punctate-striate, clothed with cinereous scales, the alternate in- 

 terstices tessellated with fuscous spots : body with ashy- white scales beneath : 

 legs black. 



Male smaller, with the scales of the elytra of a whiter hue, and the tessellations 

 consequently more apparent. 



Common in thick shady hedges throughout the metropolitan 

 district, and I believe frequent in other parts, in the months of 

 June and July. " Not unfrequent under stones on Crwmlyn- 

 burrows, and I have taken it at Penllergare." — L. W. Dillzvyn, 

 Esq. " Once near Cambridge." — Rev. L, Jcnyns. " Richardby, 

 &c." — T. C. Heysliam, Esq. 



