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Sp. 3. minutus. Elongatus, castaneo-Juscus, puhescens, capite antice Jbveolis 

 duabus confluentibus, thorace antice foveolCi unica, postice tribus lineold iinitis. 

 (Long. corp. f lin.) 



St. minutus. Marsham. — Eu. minutus. Steph. Catal. 259. No. 2567. — Eu. 

 sanguineus. Denny, M. pi. 1. /. 2. — Steph. Caial. 259. No. 2568. 



Elongate^ chestnut-hrovrn, pubescent : head nearly quadrate, shining, smooth, 

 with two converging depressions joined in front, each terminating in a 

 puncture at the base : eyes black ; thorax smooth, shining, with an oblong 

 Jbveola in the centre in front, and three others joined by an impressed line at 

 the base : elytra elongated, with a stria on each near the suture, and an 

 abbreviated one at the shoulder, very deeply impressed at the base : abdo- 

 men with the apex ovate : legs pale ferruginous : antennae testaceous, apical 

 joint obtuse. 



Taken, but rarely, witliin the metropolitan district, and also in 

 Norfolk, whence I have received it from the Rev. T. Skrimshire. 

 " Not uncommon (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 4. signatus. Elongatus, depressus, pubescens, ferrugineus, capite antice 

 lined transversa impressdjbveolisque duabus inter oculos. (Long. corp. | lin.) 



Ps. signatus. Reichenbach. — Eu. signatus. Denny, M. pi. 1. f. 4. — Steph. 

 Catal. 259. No. 2569. 



Elongated, depressed, ferruginous, pubescent : head nearly quadrate, smooth, 

 with a transverse irnpressed line in front, and two foveolae between the eyes, 

 these latter black : thorax somewhat rounded, smooth, with a single foveola 

 in the centre in front, and three united by a semicircular line at the base, 

 which is a little narrdwed, and the sides are very much depressed : elytra 

 with a stria on each side of the suture, and a depression at the base : abdo- 

 men with the apex acute : legs pale ferruginous : antennae the same, with 

 the terminal joint acute. 



Found near Ripley in June ; also in the neighbourhood of Bar- 

 ham, by the Rev. W. Kirby. 



Sp. 5. Reichenbachii. Obscure piceo-fuscus, nitidus, latus, depressus, subpu- 

 bescens, capite medio Icevi elevato, antice punctis duabus impressis confluentibus, 

 foveola occipitali, elytris striatis, striis basin versus valde impressis. (Long. 

 corp. J lin.) 



Eu. Reichenbachii. Leach. — Denny, M. pi. 1. f 1. — Steph. Catal. 259. 

 No. 2570. 



Dull pitchy-brown, shining, broad and depressed, slightly pubescent : head 

 subquadrate, elevated in the centre, and smooth, with two converging de- 

 pressions in front, and a foveola at the base : thorax rather wider than the 

 head, with an oblong, triangular, foveola in the centre, and three round ones 



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