294 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



tenuated at the apex : legs long, siewAev : femora alike, posterior not thickened : 

 tibicE slender, simple, posterior slightly curved; tarsi rather long. 



The characters which appear to separate this genus from Luperus, 

 consist not only in the structure of the antennae, of which the second 

 and third joints are both short and of uniform length, jout the tropin 

 are slightly dissimilar, the head narrower than the thorax, the latter 

 M'ith the sides rounded, the elytra slightly attenuated at the apex : 

 the legs more slender, with the posterior tibiffi slightly bent, &c. ; — 

 the indigenous species frequents heathy places. 



Sp. 1. circurafusus. Niger, thorace antice JJavo, elytris Jlavis, margine ex- 



teriore suturucjue nigris. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 

 Cr. circumfusa. Marsham.—N. G. circumfusa. Steph. Catal. 212. iS'o. 2148. 



— Lu. Brassicae. Curtis, viii. pi. 370. 



Black, shining, punctate, glabrous : thorax anteriorly yellow, posteriorly black, 

 the latter colour bilobed in the middle : elytra yellow, with the suture and the 

 anterior margin broadly black ; abdomen black beneath: legs black, with the 

 tibiae rufescent: antennae blacky rufescent at the base. 



Panzer erroneously figures this insect as the Ga. Brassicae of Fabricius, and 

 transcribes the Fabrician description of that insect: it is therefore evident 

 that he was not the first to detect this species ; I have therefore adhered to 

 the name given in my Catalogue, after Marsham, who ascertained that it was 

 not a Fabrician species. 



Not very common within the metropolitan district, but apparently 

 abundant near Bristol ; I have taken a few examples near Ripley 

 and at Hertford, on the furze : it also occurs in Norfolk, the New 

 Forest, &c. during the summer. " Prestwick Car." — G. Wailes, 

 Esg, " Neighbourhood of Swansea." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Genus CCCXCVL— Haltica, Illiger. 



Antennas 11 -jointed, much shorter than the body, slender; the basal joint longest, 

 slightly robust and bent ; the second joint elongate, a little shorter than the 

 third, or subglobose and about half as long as the third, which is elongate j 

 the remainder gradually decreasing in length, but slightly increasing in thick- 

 ness to tlie apex, the apical joint being longest, and generally acute: head 

 transverse, not concealed beneath the front of the thorax: eyes moderate, 

 slightly prominent : ihovdx transversi', ihe hinder angles obtuse, sometimes 



