132 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Griseous-3i&\\, not variegated or spotted : head slightly nigulose : thorax piceous, 

 immaculate: elytra faintly punctate-striate, the interstices slightly clothed 

 with a series of cinereous or grisescent hairs : legs rufescent : antenna rufo- 

 piceous. 



Found near London. 



Genus CCCXXVI. — Brachysomus, Schonherr. 



AntenncE geniculated, 12-jointed^ slightly elongated and thickened, setose; scape 

 a little incrassated towards the apex, and slightly curved, reaching to the 

 eyes; funiculus with the two basal joints rather long, subconicj the third 

 stoutest; the remainder short, subequal truncate at the apex; club ovate. 

 i?05<rMTO very short, above flat, smooth, the antennal groove short, small, curved, 

 deep at the base, obsolete at the apex : eyes rounded, sUghtly depressed : thorax 

 small, short, the sides a little rounded, above rather convex: body small, 

 ovate, apterous : elytra ample, united, above convex, subglobose : legs rather 

 short. 



The singular little insect which forms the type of this genus 

 may be known from the species of the preceding genus by having 

 the elytra united, and the body consequently apterous, the antennae 

 stouter, the antennal groove less distinct, and the body very much 

 rounded. 



Sp. 1. hirsutulus. Nigro-fuscus, puhescens, antennis pedibusque rufo-iestaceis, 

 elyiris ghbosis, hispidis, profundi punclato-strmtis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 1| lin.) 

 Cu. hirsutulus. Fab?'icms.— Br. hirsutulus. Steph. Catal. 176. No. 1802. 



Black-brown, pubescent 5 head black, clothed with whitish hairs: forehead 

 fiat : thorax punctulated, with the anterior margin, sides and a faint dorsal 

 line whitish-ash, and clothed throughout with erect, stout hairs: elytra 

 punctate-striate, with ashy-white scales on the interstices, and rigid, erect, 

 spinelike hairs throughout : body beneath clothed with cinereous scales : an- 

 tennae and legs rufo-testaceous. 



Verjr abundant in hedges and sandy lanes within the metropolitan 

 district; also in woods and meadows. " Braedhills, near Edin- 

 burgh." — Rev. W. Little. " Among herbage (near Swansea), not 

 common." — L. W. Dilhoyn, Esq. " Bottisham.'" — Kev. L. Jenyns. 



Genus CCCXXVIL— Sitona, Germar. 



Antennce geniculated, 12-jointed, rather short and slender ; the scape elongate, 

 clavate, reaching to the middle of the eyes ; funiculus with the first and second 



