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the strife somewhat approximating in pairs: legs black, posterior femora 

 curved, grooved beneath : tarsi piceous ; anterior in the male dilated ; pos- 

 terior and anterior femora in the same sex with the inner margin hirsute: 

 apex of the antenna? piceous. 

 This rare insect has been captured in June near Deal. 



Genus CCCCXXXVI.— Piiylan, Megerle. 



Antenna short, subfiliform, 11-jointed, third joint the longest, the remainder 

 short, of nearly ctpial length; the terminal ones transverse, or broader than 

 long, the apical joint itself longest, suborbicular. Palpi viaxillary with the 

 terminal joint large, triangular : clypcus emarginate : labrum transverse, 

 notched, inserted in the clypeal notch: head large, depressed, subquadrate: 

 eyes lunate: thorax short, transverse, the base slightly curved, with the 

 hinder angles acute, prominent : elytra imited : wings wanting : legs stout ; 

 iibioe simple ; anterior broad trigonate, truncate at the apex : tarsi short, 

 heteromerous ; anterior dilated in the males. 



Fhylan has the body more depressed and longer than Pedinus, the 

 antennag are of dissimilar structure and proportions, the terminal 

 articulations being broader than long, and the form of the palpi is 

 also different ; the apex of the anterior tibiae is simply truncate, and 

 not emarginate ; the posterior tarsi are shorter than the tibiae ; and 

 the prevailing habit of the insect points out its distinction from 

 Pedinus, with which genus it has hitherto been confounded in this 

 country. 



Sp. 1. gibbus. Niger, subnitidus, elyiris j^unctato-striatis, interstitiis alternis 

 clevatioribus. (Long. corp. S^: — 4 lin.) 



Gp. gibbum. Fabricius, S. E. i. 116. — Te. pilipes. Herbst, Col. vii. 260. 

 pi. 112. /. 3. — Ped. maritimus. Leach, E. E. ix. 102. — Samouelle, 192. pi. 4. 

 /. 2.— Ped. feraoralis. Steph. Catal. 243. Ho. 2432. ex. synon.— Ped. gib- 

 bium. Curtis' s Guide, 2.55-1. — $. Ten. gemellatus. Marsham, i. 4-7 5. — 

 9. Ten. arenosus. Marsham, i. 475. 



Black, slightly glossy: head and thorax finely and thickly punctulated, the 

 punctures somewhat elongate on the sides of the latter, which are dilated 

 before the middle, and are rather suddenly attenuated posteriorly, with the 

 angles acute: elytra punctate-striate, with the interstices rugulose and very 

 finely punctulate, the alternate ones somewhat obtusely elevated: legs 

 black. Male with the intermediate and posterior tibiae, and base of the 

 posterior femora, ciliated with fulvous hairs, and the anterior tarsi dilated, 

 fulvous beneath. 



Not tuicommon on several of the coasts of Great Britain, during 



