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MANDIBULATA. — COLEOI'TEIIA. 



deflexetl : ejjes lunate : thorax semiovate, the lateral margins regularly 

 rounded, with the angles obtuse: />o</y elongate : legs moderate; tibia sim- 

 plo, with short spurs ; tarsi slender, with the penultimate joint slightly 

 emarginate. 



From Hypulus the present genus differs, not only by the form of 

 the palpi, but in the structure of the antennae ; the proportions of the 

 articulations of the latter being dissimilar, as well as those of the 

 palpi : the form of the thorax is likewise very different, as may be 

 seen by the accompanying figures of the two genera. 



Sp. 1. bifasciata. Piceo-nigra, pulescens, elytris fasciis duahiis Jlavo-testaceia 



nndulatis. (Long. corp. 1§ — 2 lin.) 

 Mo. bifasciata. Marsham.—G. N. bifasciata. Steph. Catal. 248. No. 2460. 



— Hyp. biflexuosus. Curtis, vi. pi. 255. 



Fitchy-black, darkest beneath: head black, finely punctulate: thorax also 

 black, with the disc convex, finely pubescent, especially on the margins, 

 which gives those parts a pale appearance on a cursory inspection : elytra 

 glabrous, with two widulated or flexuous iestaceoiis-yeWowJasciw, one placed 

 before, the other behind, the middle, the anterior one broadest : legs and 

 antennae pitchy-testaceous, the apex of the latter fuscous. 



Marsham's authentic specimen of this insect scarcely differs from the figure 

 referred to above. 



Of this species a single example only was known previously to the 

 summer of 1827, when several specimens occurred in different parts 

 of the country : I beat a pair out of a whitethorn hedge at Ripley, 

 others were taken near Southgate, and " out of an oak near High- 

 gate-wood." — A. Cooper, Esq. 



Sp. 2. quadrifasciata. Plate xxiv. f. 6. — Atra, thorace antice posticeque, 

 elytrisque fasciis duabus subundulatis, pedibusque Jlavo-testaceis. (Long. 

 Corp. li — 1| lin.) 



G.N. trifasciata. Steph. Catal. 2i8. No. 2461. — Hy. 4-fasciatus. Curtis, 

 fo. 255. 



Black, slightly pubescent and shining : head black, with the mouth and labrum 

 testaceous: thorax with the disc transversely black, the anterior and posterior 

 margins testaceous : elytra luith a broad somewhat undulated testaceous- 

 jeYLow fascia before the middle, and a narrower raXher flexuous one behind: 

 legs and base of the antennae pale testaceous; apex of the latter fuscous. 



Also a scarce insect : four examples had come beneath my inspec- 

 tion previously to the appearance of my Catalogue, since which period 

 others have been captured in Shropshire by T. Marshall, Esq., to 

 whom I am indebted for supplying my cabinet with the species. 



