110 >IANOIBULAl'A. I'OLEOPT KllA. 



several of the last divisions should entirely, or in part, be lopped oft"; 

 but the time for such a task has not yet arrived. The filiform, 

 slender, subulated palpi, and gracile, simple, naked tibiie, are the 

 most constant characters to be observed ; but in other points there 

 is considerable diversity of appearance. The insects are found at 

 the roots of moss, grasses, in dung and dunghcaps, refuse vegetable 

 substances, Sec. 



A. With the thorax longer than broad. 



Sp. 1. longitarsis. Nigra, pube sericea ohscura, pcdihiis testaccis, femoribiis 



fuscis, tarsis posticls loiigisshnis. (Long. coqj. If lin.) 

 Al. longitarsis. Kirhy MSS.—Steph. Catal. 261. No. 2596. 



Black, clothed with a very short dull silken pile : head orbiculate, scarcely 

 narrower than the thorax ; maxillaj porrect : palpi pitchy-red : thorax 

 longer than the head, oZi/o/Ag-j tt'27/i an obsolete furrow behind: elytra about 

 half as long as the thorax, and broader, pitchy-black : abdomen linear: legs 

 testaceous-yellow, with the femora fuscous; the posterior tarsi slender,, and 

 very long : antennae piceous, with the last joint oblong. 



The elytra are sometimes fuscous, and. the base of the abdomen dull rufous, 

 with the legs entirely pale. 



Apparently not very common, at least within the metropolitan 

 district. " In Suffolk and near Hull, by Mr. Spence."" — 

 Kirhy MSS. 



Sp. 2. aterrima. Atra, obscuriuscula, antennis elongatis piceis, pedibus hasi 



tarsisque pallidis, thorace canaliculato. (Long. corp. IJ lin.) 

 At. aterrima. Gravenhorst — Steph. Catal. 261. No. 2597. 



Black, obscure, smooth, clothed with a very short obscure silken pile : head 

 scarcely broader than the thorax, suborbiculate, with the mouth prominent ; 

 the palpi piceous, and rather long ; thorax oblong-quadrate, with the angles 

 rounded, the disc with an obsolete farrow, terminating in an obscure foveola 

 before the scutellum : elytra quadrate, broader and longer than the thorax : 

 abdomen rather narrower than the elytra: legs pitchy-black, with the base 

 and the tarsi pale : antennae piceous, with the terminal joint conic-acute. 



I have taken this species at Ripley in the winter. " In Norfolk 

 and in Yorkshire."— ^m% MSS. " Swansea."— Z. W, Dill- 

 wyn, Esq. 



Sp. 3. leucopa. Nigra, obscuriuscula, sericeo-puhescens, tarsis pallidis, anteu' 



nis longissimis, thorace canaliculato. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 St. leucopus. Manham. Al. leucopa. — Steph. Catal 261. No. 2598. 



