240 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Sa. populnea. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 198. No. 2035. — Ce. populnea. Martyn, 

 pi. 24./ 89. 



Black, villose, deeply rugose-punctate : head as broad as the thorax, the latter 

 with three longitudinal fiavescent lines, the central one narrowed, and some- 

 times nearly obsolete : scutellum yellowish : elytra gaping at the apex, irre- 

 gularly clothed with fiavescent pile, with four or five larger patches of the same 

 on the disc, of which the central one is largest and placed transversely towards 

 the suture ; these spots vary in size, and are sometimes of a whitish hue : 

 antennse short, annulated with ashy and black. 



Not uncommon at Darenth-wood in June, upon young willows 

 and aspens ; also upon the hazel. " Monk's-wood, Huntingdon- 

 shire." — C. C. BaUngton, Esq. 



Sp. 6. ferrea. Plate xxii./ 1. Nigra, villosa, thoracis lateribiis suhlineatis, 



elytris punctatis atrochalyheis. (Long, corp, 4 — 5^ lin.) 

 Ce. ferreus. Schrank Fauna Aust. p. 145. No. 272.— Sa. ferrea. Howitt's 



Seasons, p. 217. — Sa. nigripes. Fab. S. E. ii. 310. 



Black, with pale griseous down : head immaculate, broad : thorax with a faint 

 whitish streak on each of the lateral margins, the disc punctured and slightly 

 glabrous: elytra rather coarsely punctured, of a deep steel blue, sometimes 

 greenish : scutellum pale griseous ; legs black : antennae faintly annulated 

 with griseous- ash. 



Found in the midland counties of Britain, and apparently rather 

 widely dispersed, having occurred in Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, 

 and Warwick. " Taken on the leaves of Tilia parvifolia in June, 

 1828, abundantly, and sparingly during the last summer (1829)."" — 

 Dr. Hozmtt. " Sherwood-forest." — Rev. C. Hey. 



Sp. 7. cyUndrica. Nigra, subtiliter punctulata, thorace lined inedid scutelloque 



albido-pubescentibus, pedibus anticis luteis. (Long. corp. 4—5 hn.) 

 Ce. cylindricus. Linne.—Sa.. cylindrica. Steph. Catal. 198. No. 2032. 



Cylindric, black : head very broad, immaculate, and Avith the thorax finely punc- 



JSp. 8. linearis. Lineari-elongata, angusta, nigra, palpis pedibusque totis pallida 

 luteis, elytris in disco profundi punctato-striatis. (Long. corp. 5 lin.) 



Ce. linearis. Linne.—Turton.(!) — Sa. linearis. Steph. Catal. 198. iVo. 2033. 

 note. 



Linear-elongate, narrow, black ; with the palpi and legs entirely pale luteous : 



elytra with the disc coarsely punctate-striate. 

 Turton indicates this as British, but I have not hitherto seen an indigenous 



specimen. 



