TACHYPORID.E. FALAGIIIA. 103 



An. angusticoUis. Steph. Catal. 259. No. 2580. 



Slender, black, shining: head small, orbiculate, glossy: thorax very slender, 

 obcordate, with four abbreviated dorsal furrows : elytra broad, each with 

 four impressions at the base : legs pitch coloured, with the tibise paler : 

 antenna pitchy-black. 



Taken in Battersea-fields, and near Bristol. 



Gexus CCCCLXXXVI.— Falagria, Leach 3ISS. 



AntenncE sensibly thickening to the apes, the basal joint incrassate, scarcely 

 longer than the two following, which are obconic-slender, the remainder are 

 turbhiated or turbinate-quadrate, the extreme one being ovate-acute. 

 Palpi maxillary with the penultimate joint slightly elongate-incrassatC;, or 

 subconic, the terminal one minute : labrum short, transverse : head some- 

 what orbiculate: thorax obcordate, rounded anteriorly, generally with a 

 central furrow : sciitellum minute : elytra less than half the length of the 

 abdomen, the latter linear, recurved: legs slender; femora linear, com- 

 pressed; tibicE subtrigonal, with very minute spurs at the apex; tarsi 

 setaceous, 5-jointed. 



In some points Falagria resembles the preceding genus, especially 

 in the form of the thorax, the exserted head, and phcate elytra, but 

 the palpi are very dissimilar in form and proportions, as are also the 

 antennse. The species are also found in similar situations, and 

 appear to be most abundant in the later spring months. 



Sp. 1. sulcata. Fusca, subsericea, thorace cordato, convexo, unisulcato, pedihus 

 ferrugineis testaceis. (Long. corp. Ig lin.) 



St. sulcatus. PaykuU.—Ya. sulcata. Steph. Catal. 259. No. 2581. 



Fuscous, slightly sericeous : head as large as the thorax, with a transverse 

 impression between the eyes : thorax globose, cordate, with a deep longi- 

 tudinal impressed groove in the middle : elytra quadrate, with two, more or 

 less obscure, foveolse at the base : legs rusty-testaceous : antennce the same. 



Found near London, also in Suffolk and Norfolk ; and in 

 Devonshire. 



Sp. 2. sulcatula. Nigro-fusca, nitida, thorace cordato, convexo, unisulcato, 



pedibus ant cnnar unique basi testaceis. (Long. corp. 1 J lin.) 

 Al. sulcatula. Gravenhorst. — Fa. sulcatula. Steph. Catal. 260. No. 2582. 



Rather slender, fuscous-Z>/«c7t, shining: head small, globose, with a faint stria 

 between the eyes: thorax convex, cordate, with a single deep longitudinal 



