TEXEBRIONID-E. STENEJ 9 



Black, opaque, very thickly punctulated : head depressed, with the mouth and 

 palpi rufo-piceous : thorax subquadrate, with an obsolete furrow in the 7niddle, 

 a transverse abbreviated line within the base, and an oblong fovea on each 

 side near the base ; elytra very obsoletely striated, the striae very obsoletely 

 punctured, but the interstices very thickly and distinctly punctured : legs 

 black or rufo-piceous, with the anterior femora rather elongate, slightly 

 thickened ; the anterior tibiae slender and bent, obscurely ciliated within. 



Larva fuscescent. 



Although somewhat rare, this species has been found in various 

 parts of the coimtry, and occasionally in profusion, about April and 

 May. '' Dalston." — T. C. Heysham, Esq. " Edinburgh and Car- 

 lisle." — 2>r. Leach. 



Antennoe short, compressed, clavate-capitate, the basal joints very short, capi- 

 tulum triarticulate, its two first joints subperfoliate, truncate, the terminal 

 large, obtuse. Talpi short, a little exserted, apical joint slightly incrassate : 

 head exserted, large, rounded : eyes somewhat immersed, reniform : thorax 

 quadrate, truncate at the base and apex : body linear, somewhat depressed : 

 wings ample : legs moderate ; anterior tibice a little dUated at the apex, and 

 very finely crenate without. 



The distinctly incrassated termination of the antennae of this 

 genus, with the brevity of its basal joints, and the bulk of the apical 

 one, exclusively of the shortness of its palpi, the simplicity of the 

 anterior legs, of which the outer edge of the tibias is crenate ; added 

 to the comparatively minute bulk of the species, sufficiently indicate 

 the propriety of detaching Stene from Tenebrio, unless it be thought 

 advisable (which I conceive it is not) to unite Uloma, Phaleria, and 

 the following genus, under the old term Tenebrio, as lately sug- 

 gested. How far the various species, included in the genera above 

 alluded to, are truly aboriginal natives of this country, is perhaps 

 questionable, as they all subsist upon the various preparations of 

 corn, and consequently in an artificial state. 



Sp. 1. ferruginea. Rufo-ferruginea, capite thoraceque subtiliter pxmctulatis, 

 elytris tenue punctato-striatis, inter stitiis punctulatis. (Long. corp. 1,^ — 2lin.) 

 Te. ferruginea. Fabricius. — Ste. ferruginea. Steph. Catal. 242. iVo. 2418. 



Rufo-ferruginous : eyes black : head and thorax thickly and finely punctured : 

 elytra faintly punctate-striate, with the interstices thickly pinictured : legs 

 also ferruginous: antenna; obscure fcrruguious, with the terminal joint 

 paler. 



