162 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Genus CCCXLI. — Magdalis, Germar. 



Antennw moderate, placed in the middle of the rostrum, slightly geniculated, 

 12-jointed, curved ; the basal joint elongated and touching the eyes, slightly 

 clavate and a little curved; the second short, stout, obconic; the third smaller; 

 the five following short, coarctate, somewhat cup-shaped, the exterior ones 

 largest ; club 4-articulate, oblong-ovate, acuminate. Rostrum as long again 

 as the head, curved, cylindric : eyes large, approximating: thorax bisinuated 

 behind, the anterior edge acuminated at the angle : elytra subcylindric, con- 

 vex, each produced anteriorly and slightly concealing the base of the thorax : 

 legs moderate : femora more or less dentate : tibiw with a stout hook within. 



Magdalis not only differs from Rhinodes by the form of the 

 tliorax, but by the dissimilarity in the structure of the antennae, 

 rostrum, and femora, the latter of which are always more or less 

 dentate, and the lateral margins of the thorax are generally fur- 

 nished with a spine-like process at the anterior angle, and are some- 

 times crenulated. 



Sp. 1. carbonaria. Atra, subnitida, glabra, thorace prqfunde punctata, opaco, 



elytris sulcato-striatis, striis punctatis. (Long, corp. 3 — 3g lin.) 

 Cu. carbonarius. Linne.— Ma.. carhona.na.—Steph. Catal. 183. No. 1868. 



Black, slightly shining, glabrous ; antennae with the club fuscescent : thorax 

 thickly and deeply punctate, the surface entirely opaque, the anterior angle of 

 the lateral margin produced into a spiniform process: elytra rather deeply 

 punctate-sulcate, the interstices slightly convex and smooth ; femora with a 

 denticulation towards the apex. 



Not uncommon in the south of England on plum, cherry, and 

 pear-trees in June. " West- walls. — T. C. Heysham, Esq. — " Bot- 

 tisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 2. atramentaria. Nigra, subnitida, glabra, thoracis laterihus crenulatis, 

 elytrorum striis cancellatis, interstitiis convexis suhlcevihus. (Long. corp. 

 2^-31 hn.) 



Cu. atramentarius. Marsham. — Ma. atramentaria. Steph. Catal. 183. No. 1869. 

 Ma. carbonarius. Curtis, v. pi. 212 .f* 



Black, slightly shining and glabrous: head obsoletely punctured: thorax trans- 

 versely depressed, thickly and deeply punctured, opaque, with an abbreviated 

 line in the front of the disc ; the lateral margins crenulated, and terminating 

 on both sides in a short, more or less distinct, tooth; the hinder angles 



