60 MANDIBULATA. COLEorTERA. 



second in Hunts, and the others were captured " On tlic whitethorn 

 (Crataegus Oxyacantha) at Monk's-wood, in May, 183]."" — C- C. 

 Babington, Esq., wlio kindly supplied me with the female. 



Genus CCCCLXIII.— Conopalpus, Gyllenhal. 



Antennas lO-jointed, filiform, robust, compressed ; basal joint small, second 

 minute, third subcylindric, truncate, six following compressed, slightly pro- 

 duced within, tenth as long as the ninth, cylindric, subacuminated. Paljn 

 unequal, maxillary elongate, serrate beneath, with the terminal joint very 

 long, conic, pubescent : labial short, with the apical joint very broad, pilose, 

 securiform : head deflexed, rounded : eyes reniform : thorax transverse : 

 elytra ovate : body linear-elongate, soft : legs slender, simple ; tarsi with the 

 penultimate joint bilobed. 



The 10-jointed antennae of the insects of this genus at once dis- 

 tinguish it from the other genera of this group of Coleoptera. The 

 species in the first stage subsist upon decayed or decaying trees, and 

 in their imago stage are found upon flowers, or in thick hedges. 



Sp. 1. testaceus. PaJlide testaceus, suhtilissiml punctulatus, subpuhescens ; 



oculis nigris, antennis nigricantibus, basi pallida. (Long. corp. 3 — 3§ lin.) 

 Me. testacea. Olivier. — Zo. testacea. Curtis, iii. pi. 112.— Co. testaceus. 



—Steph. Catal. 252. No. 2503. 



Pale testaceous, thickly punctured, slightly pubescent and shining: eyes and 

 tip of niandibles black : antennas fuscescent, with the base pale : legs pale. 



Not common, but has been taken in several places within the 

 metropolitan district, in June; on trunks of trees in Kensington 

 Gardens it has recently occurred, and also near Ripley : but in the 

 New Forest, Hants, it appears to be in much greater plenty. 

 "Cobham Park, Surrey, and BesseFs Green, Kent." — A. Cooper, Esq. 



Sp. 2. Vigorsii. Plate xxv.f. 1. — Niger subpuhescens, ore, antennarum hasi, 



thorace pedibusque rufo-testaceis, elytris vage punctatis. (Long. corp. 3^ lin.) 



Hellenia Vigorsii. MacLeay MSS.— Co. Vigorsii. Steph. Catal. 252. 

 No. 2504. 



Black, clothed with a delicate flavescent silken pubescence : mouth, labrum, 

 and palpi testaceous : apex of the mandibles piceous : thorax immaculate 

 rufous : elytra thickly and somewhat irregularly punctured, totally black : 

 legs entirely pale lufo'testaceous ; base of the anteimse the same; apex 

 black. 



