400 MANDIBULATA. COLEOi'TEllA. 



acute^ entire: labium transverse: head subquadrangular ; thorax subqiia- 

 dratC;, a little dilated in front, and narrow at the base : bodij elongate-ovate : 

 elytra free; wings none : femora abruptly clavate : tibia: pubescent. 



This genus difters remarkably in habit from the foregoing by its 

 sombre hues ; it is destitute of wings, and the antennae have several 

 of the basal joints elongate, while the ninth is scarcely shorter than the 

 eighth ; the mandibles are entire, and the palpi filiform, exclusively 

 of other discrepant characters. 



Sp. 1. Bovistae. Atea, nitida, ore, antennis, thoracis angulis, ehjtrorum apice 



ano pedibusqueferrugineis. (Long. corp. If — 2^^ lin.) 

 En. Bovistae. Paykul.—Lj. Bovistae. Steph. Catal. 240. No. 2i09.— Curtis, 



viii. pi. 355. var. 



Pitchy-black, glabrous, shining : mouth rusty-piceous : thorax with a deep 

 angulated striga behind, with the anterior angles and sometimes the lateral 

 margins rufo-piceous : elytra with the apex indeterminately rufo-piceous, 

 the anterior evidently depressed: sides of the body and its apex rufo- 

 piceous : legs dull ferruginous : antennae the same. 



Sometimes entirely rufo-piceous, or castaneous, with the legs and antennae 

 paler : or totally pale testaceous ; arising from immaturity. 



Somewhat rare ; I have taken the insect at Birch-wood, and in 

 the autumn of 1821 I found a considerable number of specimens in 

 a fir grove near Guildford, out of some puff-balls. " In great pro- 

 fusion in September, in a fir plantation at Quarry-hill, and near 

 Kimpton, Hants." — Rev. G. T. Rudd. 



Family LV.— HISPIDJE, Kirhy. 



Palpi short : mouth deflexed, not received into the anterior part of the sternum : 

 head exserted, vertical: antevMce also exserted, porrect; thorax trapezi- 

 form, or subquadrate, narrowed anteriorly : body elongate-ovate, narrowed 

 in front, frequently hispid, or spinous : lens short, stout : tibice compressed, 

 angulaied : tarsi tetramerous. 



Of this family there is but one indigenous 



Genus CCCCXXII.— Hispa, Linne. 



AntenncE cylindric, the basal and terminal joints largest, the former spinous 

 without. Palpi equal, incrassated in the middle : viaxillce bifid : mandibles 

 somewhat triangular-quadrate, with the apex scarcely narrowed, and 

 bidentate : labium entire : head obtuse : eyes small : thorax narrowed in 



