200 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



rugose-punctate, with a faint longitudinal furrow : elytra punctate-striate : 

 legs pubescent. 

 Slightly variable in colour ; being greenish or bluish-violet. 



Not very uncommon in woods wdthin tlie metropolitan district, 

 on the oak and hazel. " Monk's-wood, Huntingdonshire." — C. C. 

 Babington, Esq. " Epping." — Mr. Doiihleday. 



Sp. 5. ophthalmicus. Violaceus, hrevius fusco puhescens, rostro concolore bre- 



vissimo, basi trisulcato. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 

 Kh. ophthalmicus. Steph. Catal. 190. No. 1970. 



Violet, shining, rather densely clothed with short fuscous hairs : rostrum very 

 short, violet, the base with a sulcus on each side, and a deeper one in the 

 middle : eyes prominent : head rather coarsely 'punctured : thorax also deeply 

 punctured, with a somewhat larger /o yea behind: elytra coarsely punctate- 

 striate : legs violet, slightly pilose : antenna; black. 



Also found within the metropolitan district, but apparently rare. 

 " Raehills, not common." — Rev. W. Little. 



B. Rostrum elongate. a. Body oblong, narrow, naked. 



Sp. 6. nanus. Coeruleo-virescens glaber, thorace profunde punctata, elytris punc- 

 tato-striatis, interstitiis impunctatis. (Long. corp. \\ — if lin.) 



Att. nanus. Paykul. — Rh. angustatus. Leach MSS. — Steph. Catal. 190. JVo. 

 1971. 



Oblong-glabrous : head obscure bluish-green, shining : thorax cylindric, thickly 

 and deeply punctured, of a glossy obscure bluish-green : elytra subcylindric, 

 convex, very finely punctate-striate, the interstices impunctate : legs bluish- 

 black, or greenish : antennae and rostrum dusky. 



With a strong lens the surface appears to have a very short cinerescent pubes- 

 scence. The slender form of this species, exclusively of its other characters, 

 evidently proves its identity with the Attelabus nanus of Paykull : — Gyllenhal 

 suspects that it may be the Cu. Alliarise of Linne, from its greater frequency 

 in Sweden than the species next described — as Linne takes no notice of the 

 pubescence. 



Taken at Coombe-wood, and occasionally at Darenth on the 

 birch : — also found near Bristol. 



b. Body ovate, usually pubescent. 

 1. Elytra distinctly striated ; body pubescent : (thorax unarmed in both sexes). 



Sp. 7. AUiaria?. Cyaneus nitidus, lo7igiih pubescens, thorace punctatissimo, 

 elytris profunde punctato-striatis, interstitiis snbtilissime seriato-punctulatis. 

 (Long. corp. 1^— 2^ lin.) 



Cu. Alliarije. Lmwt P— Rh. AUiariee. Steph. Caiah 190. No. 1972. 



