58 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



e/y^ra elongate, sublinear, slightly gaping at the apex: abdomen acute at 

 the tip : legs elongate, slender, and simple ; posterior femora in the male 

 considerably incrassate and slightly bent ; tihiuc also thickened, angulated 

 at the base, a little curved, and abruptly truncate at the apex; tarsi with 

 the penultimate joint bilobed. 



By the incrassated posterior femora and curved tibias of the same 

 legs, the males of this genus resemble those of the foregoing, but the 

 femur is less swollen, and the tibia is truncate at the apex. The 

 antennas are comparatively abbreviated, and have the terminal joint 

 strangulated in the middle : the elytra are sublinear, slightly divari- 

 cating at the apex, &c. 



Sp. 1. Podagrariae. PalUde-Jlava, oculis ihoracisque later ibus nigris, elytris 

 fuscescente-testaceis, pedihus Jlavis, Jemvribus annulo nigro, pectoris lateribus 



abdominisque basi fusco-nigris. (Long. corp. 6 — 8 lin.) 

 Ne. Podagrarise. Linne ? — Ne. simplex. Donovan, x. pi. 358. /. 2. 9. — On. 



Podagrariae. Steph. Catal. 251. No. 2493. 



Pale yellow : eyes and sides of the thorax black, the latter foveolated, the 

 disc with an elevated dorsal line, and a shorter one on each side at the base : 

 elytra fuscescent-testaceous, with two slightly elevated lines : sides of the 

 breast and base of the abdomen fuscous-black : legs pale yellow, the femora 

 with an irregular black ring near the apex, and the posterior femora very 

 large and much thickened in the male, and the tibiae of the same legs curved 

 and, as if, geniculated at their origin : antennae pale yellow. 



The forehead has sometimes a fuscous or black patch in its centre. 



Linnaeus's definition of Ne. Podagrarise does not well accord with this species ; 

 he says, '^'^ Corpus nigrum, antennarum basis, palpi, elytra excepto apice, 

 pedes 4 anteriores, femorum posticorum basis testacea ;" and his specific 

 character commences, "Elytris subulatis," See. which can scarcely be 

 applied to the indigenous species. Gyllenhal's Ne. Podagrariae is again a 

 different insect, that being greenish-black, with the base of the antennae, 

 the elytra (which have the outer margin fviscous) and the legs testaceous, 

 with the hinder tibiae and tarsi fuscous, and the apex of the hinder femora 

 black. 



Found in various parts of the country, but not very common, in 

 June and July ; during the last month in 1827 I found specimens 

 in a garden at Ripley, flying in the evening : it likewise occurs at 

 Darenth, near Reading, Oxford, Exeter, &c. " Tunbridge Wells." 

 — Mr. Raddon. 



