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- hairs : beneath fuscous: legs moAexaXe: femora fuscous at the apex: tibiae, 

 tarsi, and base of the femora pale testaceous : antenna testaceous, with the 

 club dusky-hrovm. 



Found near London, but not abundantly : apparently more fre- 

 quent in the vicinity of Bristol " Near Edinburgh."— ^et^. W. 

 Little. 



Sp. 11. retusus. Niger, squamulis cupreo-cinereis tectus, thorace brevi scabris- 

 culo, antennis pedibusque rufescentibus. (Long. corp. Ig — Ij lin.) 



Cu. retusus. Marsham. St. retusus.— Steph. Catal. 176. No. 1793. 



Black, clothed with cinereous scales, tinted or glossed with cupreous : head flat 

 above : thorax short, round, rather thickly granulated : elytra slightly striated : 

 abdomen ovate, robust: legs and antennce rifescent : eyes very prominent. 



Frequent in the sand-pits on Hampstead-heath, in May and June. 

 " At times rather plentiful on Crwmlyn Burrows." — L. W. Dill- 

 wyn, Esq. 



Sp. 12. nebulosus. Fuscus ; squamulis cinereis fuscisque nebulosus, elytris punc- 

 tato-striatis, interstitiis alternis subelevatis, antennis pedibusque rufo-testaceis. 

 (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 



St. nebulosus. Steph. Catal 176. No. 1794. 



Fuscous; clouded above ivith fuscous and cinereous scales : head rather depressed : 

 rostrum with a deep longitudinal sulcus : eyes moderate, not very prominent : 

 thorax short, shghtly granulated : elytra punctate-striate, the strise not very 

 deep ; the alternate interstices slightly elevated : antennse and legs entirely 

 rufo-testaceous. 

 Found by myself near London ; but I do not remember its exact 



locality. I possess one specimen which I found near Ripley, in 



June, 1827. 



B. With the thorax bisinuated at the base. 



Sp. 13. chsetophorus. Subglobosus, niger, squamidis cinereis pilisque griseis 

 dense obtectus, thorace postice transverse impresso, elytris obsoletissivie striatis, 

 antennis pedibusque atris. (Long. corp. 3g lin.) 



St. chsetophorus. Steph. Catal. 176. No. 1795. 



Subglobose, black, densely clothed luith ashy scales and short rigid griscous hairs 

 or setos ; head with a longitudinal sulcus : thorax iviih a faint longitudinal 

 channel, and a deep transverse one near the hinder margin, the disc uniformly 

 clothed with ashy scales : elytra very obsoletely striated, the striae scarcely 

 punctured: interstices thickly and irregularly clothed with short griseous 

 hairs : legs and antennce deep black. 



Taken near London ; in Dorsetshire, and near Bristol. 



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