7^ MANUIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



the only indigenous species is of brilliant colour ; its larva is found 

 underground ; and the imago is highly useful in medicine, being 

 used, in a pulverised state, both as a vesicatory and a stimulant, in 

 many disorders. 



Sp. 1. vesicatoria. Viridi-OEnea, nitidissima, mbtilitcr punctata, antennis 

 nigris, tho)-ace capiteque canaliculatis, eli/tris Uncis duahus elevatis. (Long. 

 Corp. 6 — 11 lin.) 



Me. vesicatoria. Linne.—Ca. vesicatoria. Samouelle, pi. 4. j'. .5. — Steplu 

 Catal. 254. No. 2517. 



Bright glossy brassy-green, glabrous above, beneath more glossy, with a 

 few pale cinereous hairs : head punctured, with a longitudinal channel, and 

 three frontal foveae : thorax also punctured, and with a dorsal furrow, the 

 sides dilated before the middle, and slightly tubercular : elytra finely 

 coriaceous, with two slightly elevated longitudinal lines: breast densely 

 pubescent : legs slightly pubescent, with the tarsi violaceous : antennae with 

 the basal joint brassy-green, the remainder black. 



Very rare in Britain ; several specimens (from which I possess a 

 fine series) have been captured near Cheltenham ; and others occa- 

 sionally in other parts of England : one specimen was taken near 

 Hoxton in June, about ten or twelve years since. " Bottisham, once 

 taken." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Genus CCCCLXXI. — Sybaris mihi. 



AntennoB with the basal joint slightly elongate, curved and clavate, the second 

 minute. Palpi maxillary with the terminal joint short, securiform ; labial 

 with the same joint subacuminated : head deflexed, very broad : eyes large : 

 thorax elongate, subconic, narrowed anteriorly, the base broad and straight : 

 elytra rather broader than the thorax, linear, soft, as long as the abdomen ; 

 the apex rounded, not gaping: legs long, slender; tibiae straight; tarsi 

 slender. 



Sybaris not only differs from Cantharis by the dissimilarity of its 

 palpi, but by the diversity in the form of the thorax, and elytra, as 

 well as in that of its tibiae and tarsi, its pale hue^ &c. One species 

 only is known to me. 



Sp, 1. immunis. Plate xxv. f. 4. — Fusca, capite thoraceque testaceis, 

 elytris lurido-Jlavescentibus, pedihus Jlavis geniculis iarsisque nigris. (Long, 

 corp. 5i lin.) 



Ne. immunis. Marsham MSS. — N. G. immunis. Steph. Catal. 254. No. 2518. 



Clothed with a short glossy pubescence: head testaceous, rather shining. 



