254 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



their family by the shorter antennae and legs, broader depressed 

 body, and by the subseeuriform terminal joints of the palpi. 



A. Antennae incrassated in the middle. 



Sp. 1. Indagator. Nigrum obsoletiils punctatum, cinereo pubescens, elytris suh- 



testaceis,fasciis duabus liturisque reticulatis nigris. (Long. Corp. 8—9 lin.) 

 Rh. Indagator. Fahricius.—Steph. Catal. 202. No. 2064. 



Black, obsoletely punctate, clothed with an ashy pubescence : head with a small 

 black callus behind the eyes : thorax with the anterior margin dull ferrugi- 

 nous : elytra ashy-testaceozis, with three elevated longitudinal lines, the disc 

 reticulated with black marks, and having two or three more or less distinct 

 oblique black fasciae : femora and tibiae dull ashy-testaceous : tarsi black. 



Rare in England, but apparently abundant in Scotland. " Taken 

 in Scotland by Mr. Rawlins.'"' — Dr. Leach. " In Salop." — liev. 



F. W. Hope. " Raehills, common."— Rev. W. Little. 



B. Antennae setaceous. 



Sp. 2. inquisitor. Nigrum, crebre punctatum, cinereo-pubescens, elytris fasciis 

 duabus testaceis approximatis, inferjectd maculd nigra glabra. (Long. corp. 

 7—11 lin.) 



Le. inquisitor. Linne. — Rh. inquisitor. Steph. Catal. 203. No. 2065. 



Black, thickly and rather coarsely punctate, and clothed with a yellowish down : 

 head with a large blackish callus behind the eyes : elytra with two elevated 

 longitudinal lines, the disc with two approximating irregular transverse testa- 

 ceous fascicE, between which a glabrous black spot is placed on the lateral 

 margin : legs black. 



Extremely variable in size, and slightly in the colours and marking. 



Abundant in M^oods throughout the metropolitan district, and in 

 other parts of the country. " Gibside, Meldon-park, Keswick." — 



G. Wailes, Esq. " Dalston, Baron-wood," &c. — T. C. HeysJiam, 

 Esq. " Askhani-bog, near York." — W. C. Hezoitson, Esq. " Ep- 

 ping."" — Mr. Douhleday. " Common (near Swansea), and once 

 abundantly on willows in Crwmlyn-bog, — in winter under the bark 

 of decaying ash-trees." — L. W. Dilhvyn, Esq. 



Sp. 3. bifasciatum. Nigrum, nitidum, elytris Juscis externe rufescentibus, 

 fasciis obliquis abbreviatisjlavo-testaceis. (Long. corp. 7— 11. lin.) 



Rh. bifasciatum. Fabricius. — Donovan, iii. joZ. 94./. 1. — Steph. Catal. 203. No. 

 2066. 



Black, shining : head with a deep front groove : thorax rounded, black, with a 

 slight dorsal channel, the lateral margin with a stout, acute spine: elytra 



