34 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



legs moderate ; tibia' simple, with short spurs at the apex ; tarsi with the 

 penultimate joint subcordate. 



Melandrya has the body more depressed than in the other genera 

 of this family, from wliich it is also distinguished by having the 

 proportions and form of the articulations of the palpi and antennae 

 dissimilar, the thorax trapeziform, labium entire, &c. 



Sp. 1. caraboides. JVig/'a, elijty-is substriatis ccentlescentihis, antennarum 

 tarsuumque apice Jerrugineis, thorace planivscu/o, foveola postica utrinque 

 impy-esso. (Long. corp. 4 — 7 lin.) 



Ch. caraboides. Linnc. — Marlyn Col. pi. 17. f. 58. — Me. caraboides. Steph. 

 Catal. 247. No. 2452. 



Black, slightly pubescent and shining: head finely punctured, forehead 

 depressed: thorax also finely and thickly punctured, if^/^/t the disc somewhat 

 Jlat, and a small oblong fovea on each side at the base : elytra bluish, obso- 

 letely sulcated, the interstices striated and thickly rugose-punctate through- 

 out: legs black: tarsi with the terminal joints ferruginous: antennae also 

 black, with the apex of the terminal joint ferruginous. 



Not uncommon beneath the bark of willows and other trees within 

 the metropolitan district in June and July : also found in other 

 parts. *' Occasionally found (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, 

 Esq. " Raehills, rather scarce." — Rev. W. Little. " New Forest." 

 — Rev. A. H. Matthews. " Lower Hesket, Cummersdale, &c." — 

 T. C. Heysham, Esq. " Gibside, near Newcastle." — W. C. 

 Jlewitsoii, Esq. " Granchester, Cambridge." — C. C. Bahing- 

 ton, Esq. 



fSp. 2. canaliculata. Nigra, antennarum tarsuumque apice iestaceis, thorace 

 canaliculato utrinque late impresso, elytris elevato-lineatis. (Long. corp. 

 5—6 lin.) 



Me. canaliculata. Fabricius. — Curtis, iv. pi. 155. — Steph. Catal. 247. No. 2453. 



Black, slightly pubescent : head finely punctured : thorax finely and thickly 

 punctured, depressed, with the middle elevated, and bearing an obsolete longi- 

 tudinal furrow, and on each side at the base with a large deep elongate fovea: 

 elytra with broad flat sulci, the interstices forming four elevated ridges on 

 each : legs and antennae blacky with the tips of the terminal joints 

 testaceous. 



I have as yet seen but a single example of this insect, which was 

 captured by Mr. Bentley near Brockenhurst several years since. 

 " New Forest, June, 1831."— i?et'. A. H. Matthews. 



