208 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Brassy-black, densely clothed with ashy or yellowish pubescence: head thickly 

 punctured: thorax thickly and very finely punctulate: elytra very thickly and 

 somewhat coarsely, but irregularly, punctate: legs and antennae testaceous : the 

 tarsi dusky at the apex. 



The only indigenous example of this interesting species that 

 has come beneath my observation — from which the accompanying 

 figure was designed — was taken near " Inverness." — Mr. Water- 

 house. 



Genus CCCLII. — Anthribus, Fabricius. 



AntenncB inserted beneath the sinus of the eyes ; of the males longer than the 

 body, with the two basal joints short ; six following longer, somewhat obconic 

 and nearly equal ; the remainder broader, compressed, forming an elongate- 

 ovate acuminated club ; of the females very short, of similar proportions, but 

 more distinctly clavate, with the terminal joint very short, acute. Rostrum 

 short, broad, deflexed, with the apex deeply emarginate : eyes emarginate 

 anteriorly : thorax ample, tuberculated, narrowed anteriorly, with the base 

 subtruncate, the sides slightly rounded, and margined posteriorly: elytra 

 oblong, subcylindric, convex, truncate anteriorly, rounded at the apex, which 

 nearly covers the anus : legs stout, unarmed : tarsi elongate. 



The males of this genus are remarkable for the great length of 

 the antennae, the club of which, in both sexes, is rather slender and 

 acute : the rostrum is very short, the eyes prominent, notched an- 

 teriorly, the elytra subcylindric, &c. : — the only indigenous species 

 frequents decaying trees, especially oaks, willows, and birch. 



Sp. 1. albinus. Ohlongus, nigro-fuscus, fronte, rostra, elytrorum macula disci 



apiceque albo pilosis. (Long. corp. 8| — 6 lin.) 

 Cu. albinus. Linne. — Don. x. pi. 348./. 3.— An. albinus. Steph. Catal. 192. 



JVo. 1987. 



Oblong, dusky-brown, or black : rostrum and forehead clothed with a snowy 

 pile : antennae with the eighth and base of the ninth joints snowy : thorax 

 with three tubercles, finely rugose-punctate, the anterior margin slightly 

 niveous : elytra deeply punctate-striate, with the apex irregularly clothed 

 with snowy pile, with a fuscous spot on the apex itself; the disc anteriorly 



me, viz. Dryops Dumerillii, Sphaerites glabratus, Liranichus sericeus, Colydium 

 elongatum, Rhyncolus chloropus ; and amongst other rarities, Cicones Ca- 

 pini and Osphya (Nothus) femorata, have occurred in tolerable plenty. 



