152 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



gation of its body, but by the dissimilarity in the structure and posi- 

 tion of its antennae ; its longer thorax, &e. 



Sp. 1. palliatus. Niger, pilis squamulisque densis, superne Juscis, suhtus et 

 laferibus cinereo-albidis tectus, pedibus concolorihus. (Long. corp. 4 — 5^1in.) 



Cu. palliatus. Fabricius. — Ta. palliatus. Steph. Catal. 181. No. 1852. 



Black, densely clothed with short hairs and scales, above fuscous, beneath and 

 on the sides whitish-ash : rostrum with an obsolete longitudinal impression '• 

 thorax with an obscure abbreviated channel in front, and an obsolete im- 

 pression on the middle of each side : scuteUum clothed with whitish scales : 

 elytra rather faintly punctate-striate : legs and antennae black, clothed with 

 griseous-white scales. 



Var. iS? Ta. affinis. Steph. Catal. I. c. No. 1853.— With the body more elon- 

 gated and narrowed in proportion, with the sides concolorous : this may pro- 

 bably be the male. 



Not common ; found occasionally within the metropolitan district, 

 at Darenth, in Epping-forest, &c. — " Bottisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 

 " On nettles, near Walthamstow." — A. Cooper, Esq. 



Genus CCCXXXIV. — Cleonus, Schonherr. 



Antennae geniculated, 1'3-jointed, rather short, moderately slender; the scape 

 not touching the eyes : the basal joint of the funiculus rather longer than the 

 remainder, subobconic, the second to the sixth short, the seventh stouter, 

 closely applied to the club, which is somewhat oblong-ovate, acuminate. 

 Rostrum very short, rather thick, generally carinated or having a channel 

 above : eyes oblong, depressed: thorax subconic, obsoletely constricted towards 



Cu. incanus. Linne.—Berkenhout ( ! ) — Br, incanus. Steph. Catal. 181. No. 

 1854. note. 



Elongate, black, clothed with fuscous pubescence : antennse slender and ferru- 

 ginous. 



Said by Berkenhout to be indigenous, but I have never seen a specimen. 



Genus CCCXXXIII.— Brotheus mihi. 



AntenncB not geniculated, 12-jointed, curved, the basal joint, or scape, slightly 

 elongate, robust, clavate, the following joint also a little robust and subglo- 

 bose-conic, the next smaller, somewhat obconic, the remainder of the funi- 

 culus short, subnodose, the eighth joint being transverse : club large, ovate, 

 acuminate. Rostrum very short and robust, inserted during repose in a deep, 

 short groove on the anterior margin of the thorax beneath, the latter oblong- 



