MORDELLID.E. — MORDELLA. 47 



*'•' Bottisham." — Rev. Z. Jenyns. " Weston.'''' — Rev. A. H. Mat- 

 thews. " Cambridge.'" — C. C. Babington, Esq. 



Sp. 18. scapularis. Atra, suhpubescens, elytris macula ovata baseos Jlavescenti. 



(Long. corp. 1| lin.) 

 An. scapularis, mihi. Steph. Catal. 249. No. 2479. 

 Black, slightly pubescent and shining : elytra with an indistinct ovate yellowish 



spot, placed obliquely at the base. 



Of this large species I possess a single example, which was cap- 

 tured near Bristol. 



Genus CCCCLVI. — Mordella, Linne, 



Antennce filiform, more or less serrated from the middle to the apex, the two 

 or three basal joints subcylindric and nearly equal, the three following 

 obconic, the fifth rather longest, the five next compressed, subobtrigonal, 

 with the inner angle produced to a point, the terminal joint slender and 

 ovate-acute. Palpi unequal, maxillary with the terminal joint large, secu- 

 riform ; labial with the same joint transverse-ovate, truncate at the apex : 

 eyes entire : thorax slightly ovate behind : scuiellum distinct : elytra covering 

 the wings, sublinear : abdomen produced behind into a more or less elon- 

 gate style or process : breast produced behind into a broad plate, in which 

 the posterior legs are placed ; the latter stout, and elongate, with very short 

 tibice ; tarsi with entire joints. 



Mordella may be recognized with the utmost facility by the more 

 or less elongate, acute, style at the apex of the abdomen ; by having 

 the antennae short, slightly serrated, the thorax lobed behind, the 

 joints of all the tarsi entire, and the posterior tibiae furnished with 

 long spurs at the apex. Like the insects of the preceding genus, 

 they are remarkable for the extension of the plate at the base of the 

 abdomen, in which the posterior legs are seated. 



Sp. 1. abdominalis. Nigra, holosericeo-pubescens, ore,antennarum basi, thorace 



abdominequejlavo-testaceis. (Long. corp. 2^ — SJlin.) 

 Mo. abdominalis. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 249. No. 2481. 



Black, with a silken pubescence : head slightly punctured : mouth and palpi 

 testaceous: thorax smooth, testaceous-yellow, with a concolorous pile: elytra 

 finely punctured : breast pitchy-black, punctured : thorax beneath and 

 abdomen pale testaceous--^ eWow, the latter with an elongate black style: 

 anterior pair of legs testaceous; intermediate piceous; posterior black: 

 antennae dusky-black, with the base and the terminal joint testaceous. 



Not very uncommon ; found occasionally in hedges in Copen- 

 hagen-fields and near Coombe-wood; also at Ripley, where in July, 



