MELANDRYAD.E. SCRAPTIA— HALLOMENUS. 39 



Genus CCCCLII.— Scraptia, Latreille. 



Antenna filiform, naked^ with the joints for the most part subcylindric and 

 nearly equal, short, with the second shortest, the third and some of the fol- 

 lowing narrowed at the base, the fourth longer than the third, and the apical 

 one cylindric-conic, with the tip acute or obtuse. Palpi exserted; maxillary 

 with the terminal joint large, securiform ; labial obtrigonal, with the angles 

 produced on each side: mentum very short, embracing the labium like a 

 ring : head exserted, deflexed : eyes lunate : thorax nearly semicircular, 

 rounded anteriorly, transverse behind: scutellum distinct: Z»oJt/ ovate-oblong, 

 soft : elytra immarginate : tibice subcylindric, with short spurs ; tarsi elon- 

 gate, with the penultimate joint bilobed. 



The insects of this genus have the antennae short, composed of 

 nearly equal abbreviated subcylindric articulations, and the labial 

 palpi with the terminal joint obtrigonal, the thorax nearly semicir- 

 cular ; the body is depressed, oblong, soft ; and the elytra 

 immarginate. 



•fSp. 1. fusca. Fusco-nigricans, villosula, tibiis tarsisque ferrugineo-fuscis, 

 elytris IcEvihus. (Long. corp. Iflin.) 



Sc. fusca. Latreille.— Steph. Catal. 247. No. 2454. 



Above entirely of a dusky-brown, somewhat obscure, and clothed with a deli- 

 cate short villous down; beneath more glossy and of a deeper hue: thorax 

 very short, semicircular : elytra very finely punctulated : legs pale brown, 

 with the tibia; and tarsi somewhat Jerruginous. 



" Taken near Windsor."" — Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 2. nigricans. Plate xxiv. f. 3. — Piceo-nigricans, pubescens suhtilius 

 punctulata, pedibus pallide testaceis, antennis fuscis. (Long. corp. IJ lin.) 



Sc. nigricans mihi. — Steph. Catal. 247. No. 2455. 



Dusky-piceous, clothed above with a short aureous pile: head rounded: 

 thorax with an obscure fovea towards each posterior angle : elytra rather 

 paler than the thorax, very finely punctulated: legs entirely pale testaceous: 

 antenncB fuscous. 



In some impressions of the plate the antennae are represented as 10-jointed only. 



The only specimen I have seen of this insect I captured flying in a 

 garden at Ripley, in July, 1827, about six o'clock in the afternoon. 



Genus CCCCLII I. — Hallomenus, Paykull. 



Antenna filiform, rather stout, with the joints for the most part subobconic and 

 short. Palpi unequal ; maxillary with the terminal joint ovate-comj)ressed, 

 bubacumhiate ; labial with the apical joint incrassatc : mandibles bifid at the 



