172 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Slender, black, clothed with whitish decumbent pile: head shorter than the 

 thorax, scarcely punctate between the eyes : rostrum, rather long, shining : an- 

 tennae moderate, placed behind the middle of the rostrum : eyes large, pro- 

 minent : thorax rather broadest behind, the anterior margin with some slender 

 white hairs, the disc finely punctured, with a larger puncture before the 

 scutellum : coleoptra oblong-ovate, finely striated, the strise subpunctate, the 

 interstices somewhat flat. 



Rare in England : I possess a pair which I captured near Ripley. 

 " Long-parish, Hants." — Mr. J. H. Griesbach. 



Sp. 18. plebeium. Nigrum, griseo pilosum, angustum, tliorace cylindrico, pos- 

 tice canaliculate, coleoptris elongato-ovalibus punctato-subsulcatis. (Long, 

 corp. 1^ lin.) 



Ap. plebeium. Germar. — Steph. Catal. 185. iVb. 1893. 



Slender, black, with a delicate griseous pile : head short and small, finely punc- 

 tured: rostrum rather long, opaque, glossy at the tip: antennee long, placed a 

 little behind the middle ; club smaU : thorax cylindric, thickly punctured, 

 ivith an impressed line before the scutellum : coleoptra elongate-oboval, sub- 

 sulcate, the sulci punctured. 



Rather less than the preceding, of which it may be a variety. 



Also found at Ripley, and in other parts of the metropolitan 

 district. 



Sp. 19. violaceum. Atrum glahrum coleoptris oblongo-ohovatis violaceis, rostro 



brevi crassiuscitlo. (Long. corp. if lin.) 

 Ap. violaceum. Kirby. — Linn. Trans, ix. pi. 1. f. 16. — Steph. Catal. p. 185. 



Kfo. 1894. 



Black, very glabrous : head rather shorter and narrower than the thorax, wrinkled 

 with confluent punctures, and obsoletely channelled between the eyes: rostnim. 

 short, very stout, punctulate, with the extreme tip smooth and very glossy : 

 antennsE somewhat basal, a little elongate, the club rather stout: eyes slightly 

 prominent: thorax nearly cylindric, very much punctured, with a larger 

 puncture before the scutellum : coleoptra oblong-ovate, fine violet, with a very 

 delicate obscure pile, sulcate-striate, the strise punctate, the interstices a little 

 convex. 



Variable in the colour of the elytra : and the head and thorax are sometimes 

 tinted with aeneous. 



Found on the dock, near Hertford and Ripley. " Near Kes- 

 grave by Ipswich and Hunstanton, in Norfolk." — Kirby^ I. c. 

 " Common (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq, " Lancashire." 

 — Mr. Hutddnsoii' 



