114 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



throughout elevated rounded tuhercles, which are largest and most thickly 

 placed on the back : scufeUum wanting : elytra very convex, opaque, thickly 

 granulate-tuberculate, roughly punctate-striate towards the margins: body 

 beneath dusky, clothed with whitish scales: legs black, with ashy pubescence; 

 femora with a small tooth towards the apex : rostrum rugose-punctate, with 

 a carina from the base to beyond the middle, slightly bifid at the apex. 



Rare ; but found in the vicinity of the metropolis. " Between 

 Godstone and Hartfield in May."— Z)r. Leach. " In a gravel-pit 

 near Bavham."—Rev. W. Kirhy. " Southend."— i?<?t;. F. W. Hope. 



b. JVith the body ohlong. 



Sp. 2. sulcatus. Ohlongus, niger, antennis piceis, thorace scahro, elytris pro- 

 fundi} sulcatis maculis sparsis palUdo-jjilosis, rostro sulcata. (Long. corp. 4^— 

 5i lin.) 



Cu. sulcatus. Fahricius. — Ot. sulcatus. Steph. Catal. 172. No. 1753. 



Black : head finely punctured, pubescent, with an impression between the eyes: 

 rostrum rugose-punctate, with a deep broad channel : thorax with an obso- 

 lete dorsal groove, slightly glossy, with numerous thickly planted tubercles 

 throughout, and some scattered pale-ashy hairs : scutellum black : elytra some- 

 what deeply silicate, with the interstices and sulci very ruggedly tuberculate, 

 and irregularly spotted with depressed Tpale ferruginous hairs: legs rather 

 long, with the femora obtusely dentate : antennae piceous. 



Very abundant in gardens within the metropolitan district; in 

 my own garden, and at Hertford, I have seen the insect in great 

 abundance: also at Ripley, Darenth, Dover, &c.; it likewise occurs 

 in Norfolk, Somersetshire, and Devonshire. " On the sand-hills 

 (near Swansea), not uncommon." — L. W. Dillwi/n, Esq. 



Sp. 3. notatus. Piceus, thorace granulato, elytris striatis, ocellato punctatis 

 pedibus rufo-piceis,fevioribus subdentatis. (Long. corp. 3^ — 4 lin.) 



Cu. notatus. Bonsdorf—Otio. notatus. Steph. Catal. p. 172. No. 1754. 



Piceous : head with a faint impression between the eyes, the forehead slightly 

 rugose: thorax globose, granulated, with an obsolete longitudinal channel, 

 and the sides rather densely squamous : elytra thickly clothed with fuscous 

 and ashy scales and a few hairs, striate, the striae composed of small annular 

 impressions, and the interstices with a series of elevated, piceous, glabrous 

 tubercles '• legs rather long, rufo-piceous, or rufous^ with xhe femora slightly 

 dentate : antennas fuscous. 



Abundant in hedges throughout the metropolitan district. " In 

 woods (near Swansea), not common." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Heb- 

 den-bridge." — Mr.S. Gibson. " Scarborough." — T. Bean, Esq. 



