CUIOCERID^. — DONACIA. 2^71 



Do. dentipes. Fabricius.—Steph. Catal. 207. No. 2102. 



Slightly depressed : head opaque, finely punctured : thorax subquadrate, shining, 

 brassy, sometimes cupreous, with a short dorsal groove, and thickly wrinkled 

 transversely: elytra with a depression before the middle, near the suture ; 

 the base thickly punctated and the rest of the disc punctate-striate, of a rich 

 glossy silken-green, with a broad scarlet-coppery longitudinal stripe, and the 

 impressed fovea before the middle of a golden hue : body beneath clothed with 

 a yellowish pubescence : legs brassy, the posterior femora with a single tooth 

 towards the apex, longest in the male : anteni;iffl black, with the basal joint 

 brassy. 



Rather scarce : I have taken it in Battersea and Copenhagen- 

 fields, in ponds. " Meldon-park."— G. Wailes, Esq. " Burwell- 

 fen." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Harrowhy.'' — T. C. Hey sham, Esq. 

 " Covehithe, Suffolk."— fF. C. Heicltson, Esq. " Salisbury."— Mr. 

 Ingpen. " Epping." — Mr. Bouhleday. " Cambridge." — M.r. 

 G. Waterliouse. 



Sp. 8. Sagittarife. Supra viridi-sericea, subtus aureo-pubescens, thorace subqua- 

 drato rugoso-punctato, elytris lacunosis subtiliter punctato-striatis, basi parum 

 vage punctatis. (Long. corp. 4| — 5 J lin.) 



Do. SagittariiE. Fabricius.—Steph. Catal. 207. No. 2103. 



Slightly depressed : above silken-green, beneath clothed with a yellowish-golden 

 pubescence: thorax quadrate, with an abbreviated dorsal furrow, the disc 

 thickly rugose-punctate, with the angles somewhat prominent, the anterior 

 tubercle obsolete: elytra unequal, with several depressions on the disc, the 

 latter punctate-striate, with the base thickly and irregxdarly punctured, to- 

 wards the apex attenuated and the latter truncate : legs greenish-brass clothed 

 with a golden down : antennse black. 



More abundant than the last, but not very common ; occurring 

 throughout the metropolitan district. " Prestwick Car." — G. Wailes, 

 Esq. " River Foss, York."— IK C. Hewitson, Esq. " Bottisham." 

 — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Epping."^ — Mr. Bouhleday. 



Sp. 9. brevicornis. Supra obscure cenea, subtus aureo-villosus, antennis brevi- 

 bus, thorace suhquadrato, rugoso-punctato, elytris lacunosis basi regulariter 

 punctato-striatis, apice truncatis. (Long. corp. 4 — 5 hn.) 



Do. brevicornis. Kunze.—Steph. Catal. 207. No. 2104. 



Above dull brassy, beneath clothed with a golden down : antennce short, black : 

 head also black : thorax subquadrate, rugose-punctate, with a slightly im- 

 pressed longitudinal furrow, the anterior angles deflexed: elytra depressed, 

 with four slight depressions, regularly punctate-striate fr07n the base, the striae 



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