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M A N fi I B U L A T A . ■ L O L i: 1' I' J: IC A . 



tfic base rounded and broad, witli a semicircular impressed line: elytra 

 subtriang-idar, with an impressed line on each side of the suture, the apex 

 with a margin of yellowish hair: abdomen very broad: legs dull red: 

 antcnnic dull liver-colour, the terminal joint lanceolate-ovate: palpi yel- 

 lowish-brown. 



Also rare : the only example I possess was given to me by Mr. 

 Denny. " Woodbastwick and Loddon, in Norfolk."— Z>e;^7^2/, I. c. 



Genus CCCCLXXX.— Euyaxis, AwocA. 



Anfemice long, gradually clavated, basal joint robust, second also stout, but 

 smaller than the first, the six following- small, generally of nearly equal 

 size and length, slender, subcylindric, the eighth being usually least, and 

 the fifth sometimes elongate; the three terminal joints stouter than the rest, 

 the apical one being largest. Pa/pi maxillary short, and thick ; the basal 

 joi}it slender at the base and abruptly clavate, the second large, subangu- 

 lated, the third ovate, with its apex acute : head exserted : e/^ira broad, 

 ample : ahdovien broad, rounded behind : femora incrassated ; tibia; slender. 



This genus may be known from the other Pselaphidae by the 

 comparative brevity of its palpi, united to the thickened apex of the 

 antennae, and the relative proportions of the joints of the latter ; the 

 slcndcrness of the tibiae, &c. The species are usually found in damp 

 and mossy places, during the winter and spring. 



A< AntennfE with the fifth joint elongate, the terminal one generally acute. 



Sp. 1. longicornis. Elongaiiis, vitidus, niger, elijtris ritfis, thorace poxticc 

 foveolis trihus lineold transversa impressu arcuat2 unitis, antennis lovgissimis, 

 temiissimis. (Long. corp. 1| — If lin.) 



Br. longicornis. Leach.— Denny, M. pi. 7. f. 2.—Steph. Catal 257. JVo. 2550. 



Considerably elongated, black, shining: head subquadrate, with three deeply 

 impressed foveolae : thorax narrowed before and behind, the base with three 

 foveolcB united by a semicircular imjDressed line : elytra bright red, smooth, 

 with a black band across the apex, with a stria on each side of the suture, 

 and an arcuated line on each from the base : abdomen black, each segment 

 slightly tinted with brown: legs chestnut-brown ; the anterior tibia notched, 

 with a small spine, and a row of fine hairs down the internal edge : antenna: 

 of a dusky liver colour, more than half the length of the body, and slender. 



Immature specimens are entirely ferruginous-brown. 



Taken in Battersea Fields, and in other parts of the metropolitan 

 district, in Epping Forest, &c. in the spring ; and also in Norfolk. 



