260 MANDIBULATA. — ^COLEOPTERA. 



Sketty, and at Pontneddfechan, not common." — L. W. Dilhvyn, 

 Esq. " Raehills, common." — Rev. W. Little. 



Sp. 7. apicalis. Nigra, atro-pubescens, elytris Jlavo-testaceis fasciis quatuor 



sinuatis nigris, antennis apice luteo-testaceis. (Long. corp. 7 — 9 liii.) 

 Le. apicalis. Haiuorth MSS.—Steph. Catal. 20*. iVo. '201 Q.— Curtis, viii. p/.362. 



Black, clothed with dark pubescence : thorax with the posterior angles acute : 

 elytra bright testaceous-ye^ovi , with four rather broad sinuated black fascicB : 

 legs black: antennw the same, with the three or four terminal joirds luteous. 



Also variable in regard to the interruption of the two anterior black fasciae on 

 the elytra : — it may be a variety, but is decidedly not the female, of the fore- 

 going insect, of which I possess several pairs of varieties; — and it is absurd 

 to imagine it to be a hybrid between the two last described insects, because the 

 antennse are partly coloured ; all other characters being unlike those of L. auru- 

 lenta, the legs black, &c., and this last insect not being found where L. api- 

 calis is comparatively plentiful, viz. at Darenth-wood. 



The principal locality of this insect is Darenth-wood, where I 

 have taken more than a dozen specimens : it also occurs in the New- 

 forest and Southend, and near Windsor. " Colney-hatch-wood." 

 — Mr. Tngpen. 



Sp. 8. virens. Plate xxii. f. 3. Nigra, pube flavo-virescente nitida, subtus 



densiore, undique vestita, antennis luteo annulatis. (Long. corp. 9 lin.) 

 Le. virens. Linne.—Steph. Catal. 204. No. 2077. 



Black, densely clothed throughout with a shining yellowish green pubescence, 

 especially beneath : thorax convex, with the hinder angles obtuse : elytra 

 narrowed behind, immaculate : antennae pubescent, with the two basal jomf* 

 black, the remainder luteous at the base, with the apex black. 



Very rare : specimens have been taken in Scotland, and I possess 

 a pair from the forest of Dean. 



Sp. 9. scutellata. Latior , nigra, parum pubescens, covfertim profundius punctata, 



scutellojlavo pubescente. (Long. corp. 7—10 Un.) 

 Le. scutellata. Fabricius.—Steph. Catal. 204, No. 2078. 



Broad, black, slightly pubescent ; thickly and deeply punctate : thorax rounded, 

 somewhat granulated : scutellum densely clothed ivith yellow pile : elytra 

 broad, very slightly attenuated at the apex, and somewhat faintly punctate 

 towards the tip : legs and antennae entirely black. 



Rare near London ; but it has been once found abundantly in 

 an old beech-tree in Hainault-forest : and in still greater profu- 



