140 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



lateral: elytra punctate-striate, clothed with shorty erect, ashy-brown setse;, 

 and with an irregular white streak from the base of the shoulders to the apex, 

 in which are some black spots placed somewhat at random : femora black ; 

 with a whitish ring at the apex : tibiae and tarsi rufo-testaceous : antennce iet~ 

 ruginous, with the club dusky. 



Less common than the foregoing; found near London and in 

 Suffolk. " Neighbourhood of Swansea." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 22. albescens. Nigra, squamulis albido-cinereis tecta, thorace sublineato 

 - elytris imm,aculatis, pedibus rufo-testaceis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 

 Si. albescens. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Catal. 178. No. 1825. 



Black, clothed with whitish scales and pale cinereous hairs : head and thorax 

 moderately punctured; the latter with three faint lines: elytra punctate- 

 striate, immaculate : legs entirely rufo-testaceous: antennce ^?^e ferruginous, 

 with the club concolorous. 



Not common; found within the metropolitan district, and in 

 Suffolk. 



b. Elytra slightly pubescent. 1. Body short, ovate. 



Sp. 23. cambrica. Nigra, immaculata, supra parcius cinereofusco subtus cinereo 



squamosa, antennis pedibusque concoloribus. (Long. corp. 3 — 3^ lin.) 

 Si. cambrica. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Catal. 178. No. 1826. 



Black, immaculate, above slightly clothed with ashy-brown scales, beneath with 

 cinereous : head and thorax obsoletely rugulose, the latter with the margins a 

 little dilated : elytra rather coarsely punctate-striate, the interstices sometimes 

 faintly rugulose, and the scales occasionally a little clouded with a deeper 

 hue, producing an obscure tessellated appearance: legs and antenna; entirely 

 black, with ashy pubescence : body beneath rather densely clothed with ashy 

 scales. 



Found occasionally in gravel pits near London : I have frequently 

 taken it at Hertford, and once or twice at Ripley. " Not un- 

 common on Crwmlyn-burrows." — L. W. Dillwyn^ Esq. 



2. Body elongate, sublinear. 



Sp. 24. fusca. Nigrofusca, suturd pallidd, corpore subtus albido, antennis pedi- 

 busque piceo-atris. (Long. corp. 3^4| hn.) 

 Cu. fuscus. Mar sham.— ^\. fusca. Step)h. Catal. 178. No. 1827. 



Black-brown, clothed above with fuscous and beneath with whitish scales : rostrum 

 with a narrow and rather deep, elongate channel : thorax somewhat convex, 

 with a faint longitudinal groove, and an obscure fovea on each side towards 



