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Sp. 6. spinimanus. ]\igro-fuscus, antennis pedibusque piceo-rnjis, elytris svh- 

 tiliter striatis vageque setosis, tibiis anticis extus bidentatis. (Long. corp. 

 1^ lin.) 



Tr. spinimanus. Germar.—Steph. Catal. 1T4. No. 1778. 



Fuscous-black, clothed with an ashy-brown substance: rostrum above flat, very 

 obsoletely channelled : antennce piceous, with the club paler : thorax with the 

 sides constricted towards the base, then considerably rounded, the anterior 

 margin elevated, and the disc somewhat depressed, with a very obscure groove, 

 and most obsoletely rugulose: elytra moderately convex, finely striated, 

 irregularly armed with stout, erect, whitish setas in the interstices, which are 

 broad and flat : legs piceous, with the anterior tibiw acutely bidentate at the 

 apex without. 



Rare : I have taken the insect in the sand-pits on Hampstead- 

 heath. 



Sp. 7. digitalis. Brevior, ovatus, indumento dense cinereo tectus, antennis pedi- 

 busque ferrugineis, thorace depresso, vix canaliculato, tibiis anticis externe 

 spinis duabus longioribus, acutis, armatis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Cu. digitalis. Gyllenhal, Ins. Suec. iv. 615. 



Short, ovate, densely clothed with cinereous, with the antennce and legs ferru- 

 ginous : rostrum flat above, obsoletely channelled : thorax very short, trans- 

 verse, much narrowed anteriorly, with the sides constricted and considerably 

 rounded ; above slightly depressed, with a very obsolete channel, and towards 

 the margin with a few erect muricated scales: elytra generally covered with 

 a thick pigment as to appear very obsoletely striated, with a few scattered 

 whitish erect scales, especially towards the apex : body beneath piceous, with 

 whitish scales: legs stout, ferruginous: tibiw slightly ciliated, the anterior 

 towards the apex with two long acute denticulations. 



Also rare : found near London. 



Genus CCCXXIII. — Philopedon, Schdnherr. 



AntenncB geniculated, 12-jointed, rather short and stout, pilose; funiculus with 

 the two basal joints rather long, obconic ; the remainder short, nodose ; the 

 club short, ovate. Rostrum, very short, rather broad, stout, flat above, with the 

 apex emarginate : eyes small, rounded, slightly prominent : thorax transverse, 

 suborbiculate, with the base and apex truncate, a little narrowed anteriorly : 

 scutellum very small, triangular : elytra short, ovate, convex above, obtuse : 

 legs simple : tibias nearly straight, unarmed. 



Philopedon is distinguished from the foregoing genera by the 



