130 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Sp. 14. Sus. Niger, nitidus, eytris ovatis, suturoe basi linedque laterali ar- 



genteo-squamosis. (Long. corp. 2 — 3^ lin.) 

 Th. Sus. Kirhy MS.—^t. Sus. Steph. Catal. 176. No. 1796. 

 Black, shining, nearly glabrous : head coarsely punctured : eyes brown : thorax 



short, punctured, with a dorsal channel: elytra ovate, coarsely Tp\incta.te-striate, 



the lateral margins broadly clothed with silvery scales ; base at the suture the 



same : legs pitchy-black : antennae piceous. 



Common in sandy districts throughout the metropolitan district. 

 " Cramond." — Rev. W. Little. " In woods (near Swansea), not 

 common." — L. W. Dillwi/n, Esq. 



Sp. 15. pilosellus. Niger, griseo-hirtus squamosusque, f route canaliculatu, 

 thorace supra cinereo, quadriculato, elytris antice angustoribus. (Long. corp. 

 3— 3^ lin.) 



Cu. pilosellus. Gyllenhal.~^t. pilosellus. Steph. Catal. 176. No. 1797. 



Black, clothed with griseous'h.aSxs and scales : head slightly cox\a.CQO\\.?,, forehead 

 depressed, with a rather deep longitudinal channel: rostrum with an obsolete 

 transverse fovea at the base : thorax very short, fuscous, with four longitudinal 

 cinereous stripes and a faint dorsal channel, united to a transverse impression 

 near the base : elytra coarctate at the base, rather deeply punctate-striate, the 

 alternate interstices a little narrowed, the broader ones having a row of com- 

 pact ashy scales: legs short, black: antennae piceous. 



Very abundant within the metropolitan district in June. 



Sp. 16. septentrionis. Fusco-rufescens, squamulis cinereo-albidis variegatds, 

 antennis ped/busque dilutioribus, elytrorum interstitiis alternis carinatis seriato- 

 setiferis. (Long. corp. 3^ lin.) 



Cu. septentrionis. Herbst.—'&t. septentrionis. Steph. Catal. 176. No. 1798. 



Seddish-hrown, variegated with ashy-white scales: head rather narrow, thickly 

 punctured, with an impression between the eyes, which are black: thorax 

 very convex, thickly granulated: elytra attenuated posteriorly, somewhat deeply, 

 but remotely striate, with the suture and alternate interstices elevated, and 

 having a series of close, erect, short, piceous setce : legs and antennae, the last 

 rather long, rufo-ferruginous. 



Occasionally found within the metropolitan district. 



Genus CCCXXV. — Sciaphilus, Sclionherr. 



Antennw gemcxAdiieA, 12-jointed, rather long and slender: scape elongate, cla- 

 vate, sometimes extending above the eyes: funiculus with its two basal joints 

 rather long, obconic; the remainder sensibly shorter, subnodose ; club elongate- 

 ovate, acuminated. Rostrum scarcely longer than the head and a little nar- 



