118 MANDIUULATA. — COLEOFTERA. 



than the thorax, suborbiculate : thorax scarcely longer than the heail, rather 

 widest and somewhat truncate in front, rounded behind, sometimes with an 

 obsolete furrow : elytra convex, rvfo-piceous, a little longer and broader than 

 the tliorax : abdomen linear, nearly thrice as long as the elytra, glabrous, 

 shining: legs pale testaceous: antcnvaj scarcely shorter than the elytra, 

 thickened exteriorly, ferruginous, glabrous, with the terminal joint ovate : 

 mouth ^and palpi rufous, the apical joint of the latter dusky. 



The antennce are sometimes dusky at the apex; and the body is occasionally 

 piceous, with the elytra and legs paler : the last probably immature. 



Inhabits Suffolk and Norfolk, and I believe also the west of 

 England. 



Sp. 26. nitidula. Nigra, nitida, antennis elytrisque rifescentihus, pedibus 



Jlavis, thorace suhcanaliculato antice latiori. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 Al. nitidula. Kirhy MSS. — Stejih. Catal. 262. No. 2621. 



Mather elongate, black, shining, very slightly pubescent : head smooth, scarcely 

 narrower than the thorax, of a triangular-orbiculate form; thorax broadest 

 in front and truncate, the base rounded, delicately and very thickly punctu- 

 late, with an obsolete doj'sal furrow : elytra scarcely longer, but broader than 

 the thorax, more pubescent, very finely punctulate, dull rifescent, or pitchy- 

 red, subquadrate: abdomen narrower than, and thrice as long as, the 

 elytra, linear, smooth, and shining : legs yellow : antennw longer than the 

 thorax, thickened exteriorly, ferruginous, with the terminal joint ovate, 

 somewhat obtuse : palpi ferruginous. 



Found " at Holme-near-the-sea in Norfolk, in the marshes 

 beneath the rejectamenta of the river in August." — Kirhy MSS. 



Sp. 27. longiuscnla? Atra, elytris piceis,subsericeis, pedibus testaceis, antennis 



articulo nltimo abhreviato. (Long. corp. 1§ lin.) 

 Al. longiuscula. Gravenhorst ? — Stejjh. Catal. 262. No. 2622. 



Black, rather shining, smooth: head somewhat narrower than the thorax, 

 nearly rounded : thorax scarcely longer than the head, subtruncate in front, 

 rounded behind, rather flat, finely pubescent, willb an obsolete longitudinal 

 line : elytra rather longer and broader than the thorax, pitchy-black, clothed 

 with a short glossy silken pubescence : abdomen nearly thrice as long as the 

 elytra, black, with the penultimate segment finely edged with whitish : legs 

 testaceous, with the femora brownish : antemife longer than the thorax, 

 pitchy, slightly thickened at the apex, with the terminal joint ovate-acute. 



The legs are sometimes entirely testaceous, or testaceous with black 

 femora. 



Less rare than the foregoing species, taken " in boleti." — Kirhy 

 MSS. " In the woods about Penllergare.'" — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



