TENEBRIONID.E. PHALEillA. 15 



Oblong-ovate^ brassy-hJack, beneath rufo-piceous, shining: head piceous : 

 thorax slightly e?narginate in front, the disc finely punctured : elytra rather 

 deeply punctate-striate , the interstices distinctly punctured : legs and 

 antennas piceous. 



I have a pair of this insect — which is apparently very distinct from 

 the foregoing — one of which is the original Marshamian specimen ; 

 the other was taken in Bewdley Forest, and given to me by Mr. 

 Raddon. 



Genus CCCCXXXL— Phaleria, Latreille. 



Antenna: short, slightly increasing to the apex^ ll-jointed, the four basal 

 joints rather slender^ the basal longer than the third, the second and fourth 

 nearly equal, the remainder perfoliated, the fifth and sixth transverse, lenti- 

 cular, the four following broader, compressed, terminal globose. Palpi 

 unequal, maxillary with the terminal joint obtrigonate compressed: mandi- 

 bles concealed beneath the lahrum, the last emarginate : head suborbicular : 

 clypeus entire : thorax transverse-quadrate, slightly emarginate anteriorly : 

 body ovate, convex : elytra free : legs stout; tibiae elongate-trigonate, broadest 

 at the apex, anterior somewhat triangular, spinous : tarsi short, simple, 

 heteromerous. 



Phaleria may be known from Diaperis, with which genus it agrees 

 in having the antennae perfoliated, and the body ovate, by the dilated 

 anterior tibiae, which are slightly spinous, and from Bolitophagus by 

 not having the antennae serrated or the sides of the thorax crenu- 

 lated. The species frequent sandy regions on the coast ; one alone 

 has been ascertained by me to inhabit Britain ; but whether the 

 Phaleria livida of Latreille has been captured in the vicinity of 

 Swansea, as suspected by Mr. Dillwyn, I am not sufficiently certain 

 to introduce its description. 



Sp. 1. cadaverina. Pallide iestacea, suhnitida, elytris striatis macula abdo- 



neqtie nigricantihus, tibiis anticis dilaiatis. (Long. corp. 2\ — 3 lin.) 

 Te. cadaverina. Fahricius. — Ph. cadaverina. Steph. Catal. 242. No. 2424. 



Oblong, pale testaceous, slightly shining: head finely punctured, sometimes 

 dusky behind : thorax more glossy, also finely punctiu'ed, with afahit dorsal 

 channel, and a fovea on each side at the base : elytra pale, simply striated, 

 the disc generally with an irregular dusky or blackish patch, sometimes 

 wanting : abdomen also blackish : antennae and legs pale ; anterior tibia; 

 dilated. 



Found very abundantly on some parts of the coast of England, 

 especially on the southern shore of the Isle of ^^'^ight ; and on the 



