154 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Sp. 2. nebulosus. Niger, dense cinereo-pubescens, elytris acuminatis, prqfundius 



punctato-striatis, fasciis ohliquis denudaiis. (Long. corp. 6 — 10 lin.) 

 Cu. nebulosus. Linne.—CL nebulosus. Steph. Catal. 188. No. 1856. 



^\ongaXe, black, (}iew?,e\y,'bvit irregularly clothed ivith an ashy pubescence: ros- 

 trum uniformly pubescent, with a naked longitudinal carina: thorax coarsely 

 rugose-punctate, with an abbreviated central carina, and on each side a flexuous 

 series of glabrous, tubercular granules, curved outwardly in the middle, and 

 bending inwards at the base ; on the outer edge thereof is a whitish streak : 

 elytra acuminated, moderately punctate-striate, the interstices irregularly 

 clothed with patches of cinereous hairs, having several denuded spots and two 

 distinct oblic/uefascice ; the tubercle towards the apex is aho denuded : legs 

 and antennae black, with ashy pubescence. 



The pubescence on the head and on the sides of the thorax, as weU as upon the 

 legs, is frequently of a bright griseous, or brilliant red : — there are also occa- 

 sionally one or two pale reddish lines on the elytra, and the suture of the latter 

 is sometimes of similar hue. 



Rare near London, but very abundant in some parts of the 



of the thorax grooved to receive the rostrum : the legs very stout, with the 

 tarsi robust, setose, and furnished with long distant claws : — at first sight it 

 remotely assimilates with Cryptorhynchus, but the straight antennae and totally 

 dissimilar legs at once point out its discordancy with that genus, with which it 

 has lately been associated, merely from the circumstance of my having impro- 

 perly placed the genera in juxta-position, in my Catalogue. 



Sp. 1. porcatus. Ater thorace porcis duabus elevatis crenatis, thorace femorihus 

 iibiisque cinereo-albido squamosis. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 



Cu. porcatus. Marsham. — Br. porcatus. Steph. Catal. 158. N'o. 1602. 



Deep velvety black ; with the thorax, femora beneath, and tibiae densely clothed 

 with rounded ashy- white scales; the thorax porcate and irregularly and very 

 deeply foveolate, the bases of the foveae black : elytra very irregular, gibbous, 

 the disc with two considerably elevated, longitudinal crenated ridges, of which 

 the interior is curved inwardly, and interrupted at the apex, and the exterior 

 is nearly straight ; these ridges extend about two-thirds of the length of the 

 elytra, and the apex from their terminations, and also the sides from the 

 outer ridge, are very suddenly deflexed, the latter bear four rows of very 

 deeply impressed subquadrate impressions : the femora above, and the tarsi 

 are deep black : claws and antennae piceous. 



Of this extraordinary insect I have hitherto seen only my own specimen, 

 which was taken " at the roots of an Ornithogalum, in his garden at Hammer- 

 smith, by Mr. Lee," — Marsham : which has induced me to place its description 

 in a note, as the group to which it belongs is probably South African. 



