190 MANDIBULATA.— COLEOPTERA. 



Sp. 72. Gyllenhalii. Atrum suhangustum, coleoptris oblongiusculis, antennis 



piceis, rontro longiori. (Long. corp. l| lin.) 

 Ap. Gyllenhalii. Kirby.—Steph. Catal. 188. No. 1947. 



Rather narrow, Mack, with a fine cinerescent pile: head very narrow, scarcely 

 broader than the rostrum, elongate, confluently punctured, with wrinkled striae 

 between the eyes, behind transversely elevated : rostrum rather long, filiform, 

 a little curved and punctured : antennce moderate, medial, jorfc^-black, with 

 the base reddish: eyes immersed ; thorax rather short, nearly cylindric, deeply 

 punctured, the punctures confluent, with an impressed line in the middle 

 behind: coleoptra oblong-ovate, striated, the stria punctate, with the inter- 

 stices flat. 



Elytra sometimes deep bluish-black. 



Not common ; found occasionally in the neighbourhood of London. 



Sp. 73. varipes. Nigrum, nitidum, femoribus tibiarumque annulo rufis, thorace 

 ohlongo, subcylindrico, coleoptris oblong o-ovalibus, punctato-striatis. (Long. 

 Corp. 1^ lin.) 



Ap. varipes, Germar.—Steph. Catal. 188. No. 1948. 



Black, shining : head rugulose between the eyes : rostrum short, especially in 

 the male, filiform, punctured, curved : antennce rather short, vith the basal 

 Joint rufescent, the rest black, with the club stout : eyes somewhat immersed : 

 thorax oblong, cylindric, punctured, with a dorsal line behind : coleoptra 

 oblong-oval, punctate-striate : legs yellow-testaceous, with the joints, lower 

 half' of the hinder tibice, and all the tarsi black. 



Common in clover fields within the metropolitan district. " Bot- 

 tisham, in red clover." — Hev. L. Jenyns. " Southend and Windsor."" 



— Mr. WaterhoiLse. 



t Sp. 74. diffbrme. Atrum, nitidum, antennis femoribus omnibus tibiisque anticis 



medio fulvis, tibiis quatuor posticis annulo fulvescente. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 Ap. difTorme. Germar.—Steph. Catal. 188. No. 194^9.— Curtis, y. pi. 211. 



Shining, blackish-green : head punctured between the eyes : rostrum long, stout : 

 antennae inserted rather beyond the middle, fulvous, with the base and apex 

 black, second Joint minute, third transverse : eyes prominent : thorax sub- 

 quadrate, coarsely punctured, with a channel behind : coleoptra oblong-ovate, 

 striate, the strise slightly punctured : fetnora fulvous, with the base and apex 

 black: anterior tibiae the same ; four posterior tibice and all the tarsi black, 

 the former with a fulvescent ring towards the base: anterior tarsi (of the 

 male?) with the basal joint long, produced internally at the apex, which is 

 brown ; posterior tibiae at the apex and basal joint of tarsi also dilated. 



Eare ; but widely distributed, having been found in Kent, Surrey, 

 and in the north. 



