146 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Genus CCCXXIX. — Nemoicus, Dillwyn. 



Antennas geniculated, 12-jointed, rather slender, the basal joint reaching beyond 

 the eyes ; the two basal joints of the funiculus of nearly equal length, some- 

 what elongate, the remainder shorter and slightly obconic, the club elongate- 

 ovate. Rostrum short, rather stout, with the tip rather narrowed : eyes 

 rounded, prominent: thorax small, slightly elongate: body pilose, winged: 

 elytra elongate, slightly convex, clothed with a few hair-like scales, the apex 

 rounded : legs rather long, stout, suhequal : femora rather thick at the apex, 

 and armed with a stout tooth : tibice curved. 



Nemoicus differs from the preceding and the following genera 

 by having the body more elongate, and scarcely clothed with 

 scales ; the elytra oblong, somewhat cylindric, and rounded at the 

 apex : the legs rather long and slender, with the femora all acutely 

 dentate. 



Sp. 1. oblongus. Niger, aut brunneus, antennis pedibusque rufo-ferrugineis, 

 elytris pallide ferrugineis, margine nigro. (Long. corp. 2— 2^ lin.) 



Cu, oblongus. Linne.— Martin, C.pL20.f. 33.— N. G. oblongus. Steph. Catal. 

 179. No. 1839. 



Black, with the antennae and legs entirely of a rufo-ferruginous hue: head 

 thickly punctured, clothed with depressed, elongate, ashy hairs : rostrum with 

 the apex rufo-piceous : thorax with a transverse impression within the base 

 and apex, pilose like the head : elytra punctate-striate, deep ferruginous, or 

 brown ; or pale testaceous, with the lateral margin black or dusky, the surface 

 clothed with an ashy pubescence : legs stout, rufo-ferruginous, or pale testa- 

 ceous : antennae pale testaceous, with the club dusky. 



Variable in colour ; sometimes brunneous, or of a very pale testaceous, according 

 to its state of maturity. 



Not uncommon in woods and bushy hedges throughout the me- 

 tropolitan district. " Common in woods (near Swansea)." — L. W. 

 DiUwi/n, Esq. " Raehills and Peebleshire, common." — Rev. W. 

 Little. " Bottisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Epping." — Mr. Doiihle- 

 day. 



Genus CCCXXX.— Phyllobius, Schbnherr. 



Antennas geniculated, 12-jointed, moderately stout, the scape nearly reaching to 

 the thorax, and distinctly incrassate towards the apex : funiculus with the two 

 basal joints elongate, obconic; the remainder short, sometimes obconic, at 



