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legs moderate, pubescent, rufo-ferruginous; the femora sometimes deep pitchy- 

 black, with the apex paler. 



Not very uncommon in the chalky lanes near Darenth and Green- 

 hithe in Kent. «' Among herbage and on nettles (near Swansea) ; 

 and sometimes, early in summer, is plentiful on the naked sand- 

 hills."" — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Bottisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Genus CCCXXII. — Trachyphl^us, Germar. 



Antennce geniculated, 12-jointed, rather short and thick, the scape very thick 

 and reaching beyond the eyes ; the funiculus with its basal joint thick, short, 

 obconic, the second shorter, less incrassated and obconic, the remainder very 

 short, transverse, subcoarctate, lenticular, the club 4-articulate, small, ovate. 

 Rostrum as long as the head, linear, rather flat above, with an elongate, nearly 

 straight deep groove for the reception of the antennae : eyes rounded, some- 

 what depressed : thorax transverse, with the base and apex truncate, the sides 

 considerably expanded and rounded : scutellum wanting : elytra ample, united, 

 subovate, moderately convex : body ovate, and irregularly clothed above with 

 short setse: legs rather short, stout: femora subclavate, unarmed: tibioe 

 straight, rounded, all with the apex angulated within, hooked and spinous, 

 tarsi and claws short. 



Trachyphlseus differs from the insects of the foregoing genus by 

 having the upper surface of the body more or less hispid or setose, 

 the thorax shorter, generally constricted in front, the rostrum and 

 antennae slightly dissimilar, the body ovate, rostrum deflexed, &c. 



Sp. 1 . tessellatus. Nigro-fuscus, elytris valde striatis squamulis fuscis cinera- 

 scentibusque variis ohtectis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Cu. tessellatus. Marsham.—Tra,. tessellatus. Steph, Catal. 174. No. 1773. 



i^2wcoM5-black : head and thorax covered with fuscous scales, the anterior margin 

 of the thorax whitish : elytra deeply striated, the interstices setose and irregu- 

 larly tessellated with fuscous and ash-coloured scales : body beneath and legs 

 dull rufous : antennce fuscous. 



Not very common ; found near London and in Somersetshire ; 

 also in Norfolk. 



Sp. 2. confinis. Nigro-fuscus, elytris substriatis, squamulis griseis autfusces- 

 centibus omnino tectis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Tra. confinis. Steph. Catal. 174. No. 1774. 



Deep fuscous, clothed with lighter scales : head and thorax very obscurely punc- 

 tured, the latter unequal : elytra rather faintly striated, clothed throughout 

 with uniform fuscous or griseous scales, and a few dusky or cinereous hairs. 



