156 MANDIBULATA.— COLEOPTERA . 



" Southend."— i?CT. F. W. Hope. " Bottisham, once taken." — 

 Rev. L. Jenyns. " Weston-super-Mare."— G. Waring, Esq. « Oc- 

 casionally found on nettles and thistles on Crwmlyn-burrows, and 

 is not uncommon on the naked sand-hills." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Genus CCCXXXV. — Bothynoderes, Schonherr. 



AntenncE geniculated, 12-jointed, rather short and stout; the scape slightly 

 touching the eyes^ with the apex incrassate ; funiculus with the basal joint 

 short and stout ; the second as long again as the first;, subobconic ; the four fol- 

 lowing short, coarctate : the seventh broader, receiving the club, which is sub- 



" fusiform. Rostrum longer than the head, rather thick and linear, deflexed 

 and carinated : eyes ovate, subdepressed : thorax narrowed anteriorly^ the sides 

 slightly roundedj the base bisinuated, and with an impression in the middle : 

 elytra oblong, with a tubercle towards the apex, which is obtuse: legs moderate : 

 femora unarmed : tibice with a short horizontal claw within : tarsi elongate. 



There is evidently very close resemblance between the insects of 

 this and the preceding genus, but the present may be known by the 

 dissimilarity in the structure of the antennse, the two basal joints 

 of the funiculus being short and thick, and the remaining ones 

 coarctate, and very short : — the pubescence on the body is very 

 different, and the species are of much smaller size, the rostrum 

 dissimilar, &c. 



Sp. 1. albidus. Niger, albido-pubescens, thoracis dorso, elytrorum fasciCi ma- 



culisque quatuor denudatis, rostro bisulcato. (Long. corp. 5—6 lin.) 

 Cu. albidus. Fabricius.— Bo. albidus. Steph. Catal. 181. No. 1859. 



Black, variegated with whitish pubescence: head with the forehead rugose- 

 punctate, the vertex smoother, with a slightly fulvescent pubescence : thorax 

 coarsely rugose punctate, with an obsolete carina in the middle and a deep 

 impression behind ; the sides and under surface clothed with a dense whitish 

 pubescence, including a rounded naked spot near the apex : elytra moderate, 

 punctate-striate, densely clothed with a white or snowy pubescence, except a 

 humeral spot, a central waved fascia, and a small patch including the apical 

 tubercle, nearly denuded : legs black : femora with a whitish ring at the 

 apex : antennse black, with the base ferruginous. 



Very rare, but widely dispersed. " Taken by Mr. Hooker in a 

 gravel pit at Hilsdon, near Norwich, and by the Rev. R. Sheppard 

 in a similar situation near Ipswich." — Marsliam MSS. " Porto- 

 bello, near Edinburgh." — Dr. Leach. 



