CRIOCERID/E. — DONACIA* 2T5 



furrow, with two foveolas on each side, the disc nearly smooth, but rather 

 finely wrinkled within the base and apex: elytra crenate-striate, with the 

 interstices transversely wrinkled, the apex obtusely rounded : legs elongate, 

 rufo-piceous : femora slightly incrassated, the posterior long and hent, with 

 the base slender : antenna fuscous at the base, rufo-ferruginous at the apex. 



Rather scarce : found in Norfolk, and on the borders of Whit- 

 tlesea-mere, and occasionally within the metropolitan district. 

 " Croydon Canal." — Mr. Ingall. 



Sp. 18. simplex. Suhconvexa, supra virescenti-cenea, suhtus cinereo-sericea, 

 pedibus fusco-ferrugineis, thorace punctatissimo, elytris crenato-striatis, dorso 

 rubro-cupreis, interstitiis transverstm rugosis. (Long.'corp. 3^—4^ lin.) 



Do. simplex. Fabricius.—Steph. Catal. 209. No. 2113. 



Hather short, subconvex, above greenish-brass, beneath clothed with an ashy- 

 silken pubescence: head fuscescent; with a somewhat interrupted frontal 

 channel : thorax with an impression in the middle of the lateral margins, the 

 anterior tubercle obsolete, and a deep channel on the disc, which last is convex 

 and very thickly punctured : elytra crenate-striate , the interstices transversely 

 wrinkled, the back of a bright red-copper : legs dull ferruginous : femora 

 thickened and aeneous at the apex : antennae pitchy-black. 



Common within the metropolitan district in June, and also found 

 near Bristol. " Anglesea-abbey, Cambridgeshire." — Rev. L.Jenyns. 

 " Salisbury." — Mr. Ingpen. " Whim, Peebleshire." — Ret). W. 

 Little. " Fulham and Battersea-fields." — Mr. G. WaterJiouse. 

 " Whittlesea."— i^^i;. A. H. Matthez€S. 



Sp. 19. linearis. Elongata, subdepressa, supra obscure virescenti-cenea, suhtus 

 argenteo-sericea, antennis pedibusque ferrugineo-variegatis, thorace quadrato, 

 punctatissimo, elytrorum interstitiis subtilissime strigosis. (Long. corp. 4—5 

 lin.) 



Do. linearis. Hoppe.Steph. Catal. 209. No. 2114. 



Elongate, somev/hat depressed, above of an obscure gxeemsh-brass, or purplish- 

 copper, beneath clothed with a shining pile : head finely punctured, %vith a 

 short frontal channel : thorax subqaadrate, somewhat depressed, with an ob- 

 solete dorsal furrow, and very thickly punctulated, with an oblong tubercle at 

 each anterior angle placed obliquely : elytra rather deeply punctate-iirm^e, 

 the interstices very finely strigose transversely ; attenuated towards the apex, 

 the latter truncate ; on the back are four more or less obsolete depressions, 

 placed quadrangularly : legs slender : femora seneous, with the base testaceous, 

 tibice curved, dull testaceous : antenna; black, with the base of each joint more 

 or less fert^uginous. 



Very abundant in every swampy place upon flags, and oilier 



