224 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



obsoletely striated : legs and antennas pale testaceous, the latter rather elongate, 

 jiUform, with the three terminal joints a little incrassated. 

 Slightly variable in colour and in size. 



Not common: taken in old wood near London. " In plenty in 

 a granary at Cambridge." — C. C. Bahington, Esq. 



Sp. 7. testaceus. Plate xxi. f. 6. — Testaceus, nitidus, thorace subquadrato 

 mutico subtilissims punctulato, femoribus compressis, antennis Jiliformibus 

 longitudine fere corporis. (Long. corp. f— 1 lin.) 



Cu. testaceus. Fabricius, E. S. i. b. 96. 



Testaceous, shining : head rather broad : eyes dusky black : thorax very glossy, 

 5ubquadrate,i\\\c\ly hut rather obsoletely punctured: elytra depressed, pale 

 testaceous, faintly striated, immaculate : legs rather short, and pale testaceous : 

 femora compressed : antennoejlliform, nearly as long as the body, with the 

 three terminal joints rather elongate, but not stouter than the rest. 



Taken near London ; and in the vicinity of Norwich, by the late 

 M. A. Griffin, Esq. 



Genus CCCLXIIL — Uleiota, Latreille. 



AntennoE longer than the body, fihform, pilose ; the basal joint elongate ; the 

 second placed obliquely on the side of the first ; the remaining joints elongate, 

 cylindric. Palpi subequal, filiform, with the terminal joint sub-obconic, 

 and rather acute : lahrum rounded ? labium slightly emarginate in front : 

 maxillos short, with the internal process armed with an acuminated hook : 

 mandibles in the male furnished on the outer side with an elongate, strong, 

 curved, hornlike process: body very much depressed: head short, broad: 

 thorax transverse: legs short, robust: Jemora incrassated in the middle: 

 tarsi tetramerous. 



From Cucujus this genus is characterised by the length of the 

 antennae, the basal joint of which is very long and curved, and the 



Sp. 8. minimus. Ferrugineus, thorace subquadrato mutico, elytris Icevissimis, 



pallidis. (Long. corp. f lin.) 

 Br. minimus. Fabricius, S. E. ii. 98. — Cu. minutus ? Curtis Guide ? 



Ferruginous, with the thorax subquadrate, the sides entire : elytra pale, very 

 smooth. 



Found in America ; and taken occasionally in warehouses in England ; I have 

 taken three or four examples in London, but amongst foreign wood. 



