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Ps. glabiicollis. Reichenhach. — Ar. glabricoUis. Denny, M. pi. 5. /. 4. — 

 Steph. Gated. 258. No. 2558. 



Obscure ferruginous, or piceous, slightly pubescent : head triangular, smooth, 

 the base with two punctures between the eyes : thorax very finely pubes- 

 cent, ohcordate, smooth, the base with a transverse curved line : elytra punc- 

 tured, with a stria on each side of the suture, and a depression at the 

 shoulder : abdomen oblong : legs pale ferruginous ; tarsi flavescent : 

 antennse ferruginous, the basal joint very large in the female. 



Found not uncommonly within the metropolitan district in the 

 spring, beneath moss, &c. " By no means rare in Norfolk." — 

 Denny ^ I. c. 



tSp. 2. clavicornis. Piceo-castaneus , thorace capite latiori antice, et postice 

 lavi angustato,femorihus crassiuscuKs. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 



Ps. clavicornis. Panzer. — Ar. clavicornis. Denny, M. pi. 5. f. 2. — Steph. 

 Catal. 258. No. 2559. 



Dark chestnut : head nearly triangular, smooth, deeply impressed in the centre, 

 with two foveolse between the eyes: thorax wider than the head ante7'iorly, 

 and posteriorly narrowed, and faintly punctured, with an impressed line : 

 elytra pitch-coloured, thickly punctured towards the posterior part, with 

 a stria on each side of the suture, and one at the shoulder deeply impressed: 

 abdomen pitchy-black: legs testaceous; femora rather thick: tibise slightly 

 curved : antennae dark chestnut, the first, second, and last joints very large, 

 the second subquadrate : palpi pale ferruginous. 



Rare : specimens have been taken in Norfolk, and also near 

 Bristol. 



Sp. 3. puncticollis. Piceo-ferruginus, punctatus, nitidus, thorace maxima, 

 antice dilatato, punctatissimo femoribus femineis crassissimis. (Long. corp. 

 f-1 lin.) 



Ar. puncticollis. Denny, M. pi. 5. /. 3.— Steph. Catal. 258. No. 2560. 



Dark ferruginous, pun-ctured, shining : head triangular, thickly punctured, 

 with two large foveolae between the eyes : thorax large, dilated m front, and 

 thickly punctured, the base narrowed, with an impressed line, terminating in 

 a puncture at each side : elytra pitchy-brown, with four excavations at the 

 Ijase, and a stria on each side of the suture : legs pale ferruginous-yellow, 

 femora incrassated in the female : antennse ferruginous : palpi pale 

 yellow-brown. 



Not uncommon in some parts of the metropolitan district ; I have 

 taken it, in moss, during the winter at Hertford. " At Horning, in 

 Norfolk.^'— 7)eww?/, /. c " Newcastle."— G. Walks, Esq. " Net- 

 hy:'~Rev. F. W. Hope. 



