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MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



the margins dilated and pale : elytra rather delicately -^xmcizXe-striate, the 

 interstices varied with fuscous and greenish, and each with a row of griseous 

 setas or hairs : femora black ; tibiae and tarsi dark-pitchy : antennae with the 

 basal joint dark-piceous, the remainder dusky. 



Found also on sandy heaths throughout the metropolitan district; 

 also in Suffolk and Norfolk. " Swansea." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 3. femoralis. Nigra, squamulis virescentibus subnebulosa, antennis pedihusque 



piceis,femoribus magnis atris. (Long. corp. 2^ lin.) 

 Si. femoralis. Steph. Catal. 177. No. 1805. 



Black, slightly clouded luith greenish scales: head and thorax rather thickly but 

 finely granulated j the rostrum with a deep groove: elytra rather deeply 

 ^mict&te-striate, the interstices narrow and varied with greenish scales, and a 

 few scattered hairs : femora, especially the anterior^ large, deep pitchy-black : 

 tibiae, tarsi, and antennae entirely pitchy. 



Found near London, and in the vicinity of Bristol. 



Sp. 4. pleuritica. Nigra, squamulis virescenti-cinereis tenue obtecta, elytris 



cinereo hispidis, pleuribus argento cinereis. (Long. corp. 1^— Sj hn.) 

 Si. pleuritica. Kirby MSS. Steph. Catal. 177. No. 1806. 



Black, delicately clothed above with greenish-ashy scales : rostrum with a deep 

 channel, and with the head and thorax slightly punctate; the latter immacu- 

 late: elytra regularly but slightly clothed with g-reerew/t-ashy scales, and 

 rather thickly furnished luith ashy hairs, striate, the striw moderately deep and 

 punctured, and placed rather irregularly in pairs : pleurae bright silvery-ash : 

 legs and antenna; dark-piceous, with the tibiae and tarsi rather paler. 



Taken in the vicinity of the metropolis, and in Suffolk. 



2. Winged. 

 Sp. 5. hispidula. Nigra, fusco-squamosa,femoribus piceis, tibiis tarsisque tes- 



taceis, thorace profunde punctata, cinereo lineato, elytris cinereo-variis, pilis- 



erectis albidis seriatis. (Long. corp. 2— 2^ lin.) 

 Cu. hispidulus. Fabriciu-s.—^i. hispidula. Steph. Catal. 177. No. 1807. 



Black, with fuscous scales: head short, rather deeply punctured with an im- 

 pressed line between the eye- : thorax deeply punctate, with a narrow dorsal 

 line on the lateral margin «i7;_?/- white : elytra rather deeply punctate-striate, 

 densely varied with fuscous and ashy scales, and a series of rigid whitish hair, 

 in each interstice : body black beneatli, with the thorax and breast somewhat 

 metallic : legs moderate : femora fuscous : tibiae and tarsi testaceous : antennje 

 ferruginous, with the club fuscous. 



