TACHYPORID.E. 



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depressions in front : thorax elongated, ovate, posteriorly truncate, with three 

 foveolte united by a semicircular impressed line, the central one largest, and 

 truncate : elytra subtriangular, with a stria on each side of the suture, and 

 another abbreviated one at the base: abdomen elongate-oval, with the 

 apes obtuse : legs pale chestnut : antennas pale testaceous, short, with the 

 last joint very large ovate-acute. 



Apparently rare ; few specimens have been taken within the metro- 

 pohtan district, and in Norfolk and Suffolk. " Moss, Humby, 

 Lincolnshire." — A. H. Davis, Esq., who supplied me with the 

 species. 



Sp. 9. Easterbrookianus. Corpore toto intejise ferrugineo, antennis palpis 

 pedibusque pallidioribus , thorace ruguhso, elytris punctato-striatis. (Long, 

 corp. 1 lin.) 



Eu. Easterbrookianus. Leach. — Steph. Catal 259. No. 2574. 



Body entirely oi a.hr\^h.t ferruginous, with the antennae, palpi, and legs, paler; 

 thorax rugulose ; elytra punctate-striate. 



" Near Ashburton." — Dr. Leach. 



Family LXVII.— TACHYPORID^,* Mac Leay. 



Head for the most part sessile, and inserted into the thorax near the eyes, the 

 latter small : thorax generally trapezoid, widest behind. Antennce rather 

 long, not very stout, but thickening from near the base to the apex, rarely 

 subclavate ; the terminal joint sometimes enlarged, and occasionally very 

 stout; the basal one robust, the second and third frequently elongate- 

 clavate : palpi filiform, or subulate : body elongate, somewhat elliptic, in 

 some cases very much attenuated behind : legs slender ; tibice sometimes 

 spinous ; tarsi pentamerous, furnished with two claws. 



* In the subsequent account of the contents of this and the three remaining 

 families of the Coleoptera, I have availed myself of the libaral present from 

 the Rev. W. Kirby of his manuscript notes and descriptions thereof; though, 

 from having had less experience in their investigation than that celebrated 

 writer, I greatly fear that, notwithstanding his elaborate descriptions, I shall 

 fall into error in my attempted abridgment of them in order to suit the limits 

 of this work, as I have not sufficient time to reinvestigate them ; it is therefore 

 possible that many of the species hereafter given as new may be described in 

 the recent monograph of the Russian species by Mannerheim, and that others 

 may lurk in the volumes of Gravenhorst and Gyllenhal, the only authors (with 

 the exception of Faykull) who have attempted a thorough description of all 

 the species known to them. 



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