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Th. Asperifoliamm. Kirby MSS.—St Asperifoliarum. Steph. Catal. 175. N'o. 

 1785. 



Black, densely clothed with cinereous scales: rostrum with an obsolete ab- 

 breviated groove : head finely punctured : thorax rather coarsely punctured, 

 with a dorsal and two lateral fuscous stripes : elytra ample, moderately punc- 

 tate-striate, marbled with fuscous and cinereous, with a small quadrate black 

 spot at the base of the suture : legs rufescent, densely clothed with ashy 

 scales : antennae piceous, with the funiculus and club rufescent. 



Found in the neiglibourliood of London, and in Suffolk. 



Sp. 4. obesus. Brevior, crassus, fusco-cinereo squamosus, elytris obsolete punc- 

 tato-striatis, pedibus rufescentibus, antennis piceis ; rostro obsolete sulcata. 

 (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Cu. obesus. Marsham.—St. obesus. Steph. Catal. 175. No. 1786. 



Short, stout, black, clothed with ashy-brown scales : rostrum with a very obsolete 

 channel, the surface shghtly rugose: head faintly punctate: thorax with the 

 side sslightly rounded, somewhat gramdated : elytra obsoletely striated, the 

 striae composed of minute impressions : legs dull rufescent, with cinereous 

 scales : antennae piceous. 



Taken in woods in June, within the metropolitan district ; also 

 near Bristol. " Not uncommon (near Swansea), particularly in 

 woods." — L. W. Dilltcyn, E^q. 



Sp. 5. cognatus. Augustior, niger, fusco squamosus, thorace punctata, elytris 

 distincte punctato-striatis, antennis pedibusque rufo-piceis, rostro hand sul- 

 cata. (Long. Corp. 2| lin.) 



St. cognatus. Steph. Catal. 175. No. 1787. 



Rather narrow: black clothed throughout with fuscous scales: rostrum ob- 

 scurely rugose, with a central channel: thorax rather coarsely punctured: 

 elytra somewhat deeply punctate-striate and slightly hispid, the interstices 

 obsoletely rugose : antennae and legs pitchy-red, with ashy-brown scales on the 

 latter. 

 Not uncommon within the metropolitan district. 



Sp. 6. atomarius. Griseus, atomis maculisque minutis fuscis, pedibus nifis, 



elytris tenue striatis. (Long. corp. 1^— if lin.) 

 Cu. atomarius. Marsham.—St. atomarius., Steph. Catal. 175. No. 1788. 



Entirely of a deep rufo-griseous, sprinkled throughout ivith minute fuscous or 

 blackish spots, especially on the thorax, which last is somewhat ruggedly 

 punctate: elytra faintly striated, the striw composed of elongate punctures : 

 legs rufous : antenna? rufo-ferruginous. 

 Not very common : found in woods among- thick herbage within 



the metropolitan district, and in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Somerset- 

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