292 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



with three black spots^ the lateral ones rounded : elytra slightly pubescent, 

 each with a black streak within the margin, arising at the humeral callous 

 and not reaching the base, and a second slender abbreviated one towards the 

 middle: legs stout, griseous-yeWow: femora ivith a dusky spot externally, 

 and the tibiae internally with a black streak ; the posterior ones armed : an- 

 tennse black above, testaceous beneath. 



Rare, at least near London : found on the elm in June. 



Sp. 13. tenella. Convexa, subtus nigra, ana pedibusgue pallidis, elytris sim- 

 pliciter punctatis testaceis, margine thoraceque toto Icets Jlavis. (Long. corp. 

 li-2llin.) 



Ch. tenella. lAnne.—Martyn, C.pl. 16./. 24.— Ga. tenella. Steph. Catal.9,12. 

 No. 2147. 



Oblong-ovate, convex : head testaceous-yellow, with the forehead channelled 

 and the vertex broadly black : thorax with a dorsal furrow and a rounded 

 fovea on each side at the base, yellow or flavescent, sometimes with an obscure 

 blackish line in the dorsal furrow : scutellum pitchy : elytra thickly and simply 

 punctate, the disc testaceous, or rufescent, a little shining, the lateral margin 

 and suture yellow, the humeral callous occasionally fuscous: body beneath 

 black, with the apex and legs pale testaceous : antennae testaceous at the base, 

 the apex black. 



Not uncommon in marshy places in July, frequenting willows, 

 alders, &c. " Cardew-mire." — T. C. Heysham, Esq. " Common 

 (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dilkoyn, Esq. " Raeliills." — Rev. W. 

 Little. 



Genus CCCXCIV. — Lupekus, Geqffroy. 



Antennae very slender, much longer than the body in the male, as long in the 

 female, filiform, pubescent ; the basal joint robust ; second half as long as the 

 third, which is slender ; fourth and remainder cylindric, very long : terminal 

 subfusiform, acute. Palpi short, apical joint conic, acute : labrum with a 

 small lobe in the centre: head subtriangular, as broad as the thorax: eyes 

 prominent: thorax transverse, rather broadest in front; the posterior angles 

 acute: scutellum rmxmte: elytra elongate, dilated behind: legs rather long: 

 femora alike, posterior not formed for leaping : tibia slender, posterior not bent : 

 tarsi rather long. 



The pretty genus Luperus may be at once recognized from the 

 preceding, by having the second joint of the antennse about half 

 the length of the third only, and the latter considerably attenuated 



