150 . MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Black, clothed with opaque pale green scales : rostrum with the apex nearly gla- 

 brous, the base and head rather densely squamous : thorax short, with the 

 sides moderately rounded, and obsoletely impressed within the base and 

 apex, thickly squamous: elytra slightly convex, the apex rounded, punctate- 

 striate, the interstices flat, densely clothed with scales: body beneath squamous, 

 the abdomen somewhat naked: legs moderate: femora pitchy-black, with 

 green scales : tibise and tarsi testaceous. 



Variable in the colour of the scales, which are sometimes whitish or blue-green. 



Abundant in hedges within the metropolitan range. " In woods 

 (near Swansea), about midsummer." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Rae- 

 hills, common." — Rev. W. Little. " Bottisham."— i?et;. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 9. albidus. Ater, squamulis albidis opacis dense ohtectus, antennis tenuibus 



tibiis tarsisque testaceis,femoribus piceis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 

 Ph. albidus. Steph. Catal. p. 180. No. 1848. 



Black, rather densely clothed above with opaque whitish scales : rostrum piceous 

 at the apex: elytra punctate-striate, the interstices uniformly clothed with 

 whitish scales : abdomen beneath less densely squamous :/e7?iora/)zYc^t/ .- tibiiE 

 and tarsi testaceous: antennae rather slender, also testaceous. 



Found also not uncommonly in the neighbourhood of London. 



Sp. 10. parvulus. Niger viridi-squamosus, antennis tibiisque testaceis,femori- 



busfuscis. (Long. corp. if— 2 lin.) 

 Cu. parvulus. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 180. No. 1849. 



Black, densely clothed with green scales : head and thorax with the scales rather 

 elongate, the latter with an obscure impression within the base and apex : 

 elytra rather deeply punctate-striate, the interstices squamose : abdomen rather 

 slightly squamous, and piceous at the apex : femora dusky or fuscous: tibice 

 testaceous: tarsi somewhat obscure : antenncc entirely pale testaceous. 



Also common in the vicinity of the metropolis. 



Sp. 11. minutus. Niger viridi-squamosus, antennis pedibusque piceo-ferru- 



gineis,femoribus obscurioribus. (Long. corp. 1^ — If lin.) 

 Ph. minutus. Steph. Catal. 180. No. 1850. 



Black, r2i.\her die\i?,^y clothed with bluish-green scales: head and thorax some- 

 what glossy, the latter very short, somewhat coarctate in front, transversely 

 convex behind : elytra moderately punctate-striate, the interstices narrow and 

 squamous: body beneath densely clothed with glossy scales : femora fusces- 

 cent : tihi(B and tarsi pitchy-hxxugiwoxx?, : antennse the same, but paler. 



Slightly variable in the colour of the scales. 



Found within the metropolitan district. 



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