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country, as in Norfolk, Suffolk, Devonshire, near Bristol, &c. 

 " Southend."— i?eii. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 2. quadrinotatus. Niger, subnitidus pilosus, antennis pcdibiisqve fusco- 

 Jerrugineis, eli/tris maculis quatuor testaceis, thorace oblongo jjosiicc angustato. 

 (Long. corp. 1§ lin.) 



An. quadrinotatus. Gyllenhal. — Steph. Catal. 255. JVo, 2522. 



Black, slightly shining, pilose : head rather deeply punctured with a smooth 

 longitudinal line : thorax elongate, rather deeply, but not very thickly, 

 punctured ; very much narrowed behind : elytra deeply punctured, with an 

 ovate oblique testaceous spot behind the shoulder, and a second smaller one 

 behind the middle towards the suture, neither of them touching the margins : 

 body beneath pitchy-black, finely punctured : legs fusco-testaceous ; femora 

 piceous : antennte fusco-ferruginous. 



Rare : I possess a single example, captured within the metropo- 

 litan district in June. 



Sp. 3. ater. Niger, subnitidus glabriusculus , ihorac.e convexo, oblongo, suh- 



tiliiis pmictato, elytris profunde punctatis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 An. ater. Paykul. — Steph. Catal. 255. No. 2523. 



Black, slightly shining, and nearly glabrous : head and thorax very Jinely 

 punctured; the latter oblong, narrowed behind, and very convex, with the 

 sides dilated before the middle : elytra immaculate, thickly and more deeply 

 punctured than the head and thorax : legs black, with the tarsi fuscous or 

 dusky-ferruginous : antenna black. 



Found in June near London, and also in Essex, near Wrabness : 

 I have a specimen from the vicinity of Bristol. 



Sp. 4. fuscus. Ferrugineus, nitidus, subpubescens, punctulatus, elytris fuscis 



basi obsolete ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 1 — \\ lin.) 

 Ly. fusca. Marsham— An. fuscus. Steph. Catal. 255. No. 2524. 



Ferruginous; sMning, slightly pubescent: head rusty-black, faintly 

 punctured ; thorax ferruginous : elytra glabrous, rather shining, somewhat 

 deeply punctured, the base more or less obsoletely ferruginous, the rest of 

 the surface hrown-black; abdomen the same : legs and antennas dusky- 

 ferruginous. 



Very abundant throughout the metropolitan district, and in other 

 parts of the country, in June. " Cramond, plentiful."'' — Rev. W. Lit- 

 tle. "Bottisham." — Bev. L.Jenyns. "Weston." — Rev. A. H. Mat- 

 thews. " Cummersdale." — T.C. Heysham^ Esq. "Among herbage 

 (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



