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legs fulvous : antennae thickened exteriorly, brownish, with the base and 

 apex pale rufous, the terminal joint elongate. 

 Head sometimes ferruginous. 



Rare ; but found near the metropolis, and near Bristol and York- 

 shire. " Barham." — Kirby MSS. 



Sp. 48. nigricollis. Rufo-hrunnea, capite thorace elytrisque piinctulatissimis, 

 antennis ptdibus coleoptrisque testaceis. (Long. corp. If lin.) 



Sta. nigricollis. Paykull.—Al. nigricollis. Steph. Cutal. 263. No. 2643. 



Red-brown, or ferruginous, very much punctured: head rather narrower 

 than the thorax, somewhat rounded and rugulose between the eyes, the 

 latter black : thorax scarcely longer than the head, subtruncate in front, 

 roimded behind, rather convex : elytra somewhat longer and wider than the 

 thorax, slightly pubescent, testaceous : abdomen thrice as long as the elytra, 

 smooth, with the apex testaceous : legs also testaceous : antennae half as long 

 as the body, a little thickened at the apex, testaceous, the terminal joint 

 elongate, rather obtuse. 



Not common ; taken also near the metropolis, and " Barhara."— 

 Kirhy MSS. 



Sp. 49. picata. Elongata, picea nitidissima, antennis palpis pedibusque testaceis, 



elytris punctulatis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 

 Al. picata. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 263. No. 2644. 



Rather elongate, piceous, very shining, rather smooth, sparingly pubescent, 

 with longish hairs : -head subtriangular, scarcely narrower than the thorax, 

 the last scarcely longer than the head, rounded posteriorly, and truncate in 

 front, with a dorsal channel at the base : elytra a little longer and broader 

 than the thorax, punctulate : abdomen linear, thrice as long as the elytra : 

 legs pale testaceous : antennue rufo-testaceous, thickened exteriorly, with the 

 apical joint ovate-acute: palpi also testaceous. 



The base of the abdomen is sometimes pale piceous. 



Found occasionally near London ; also in " Norfolk, near 

 Barham, and in Scotland." — Kirhy MSS. " Near Swansea by Dr. 

 Leach." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



3. With the base of the abdomen rufous. 

 * Thorax rufous. 



Sp. 50. coUaris. Plate xxvi. J". 2. — Rvfo, capite, epigastrio, elytris anoque 



nigris, antennis apice pedibusque pallidis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 

 St. coUaris. Paykull.— Steph. Catal. 263. No. 2645. 



Shining rufous : head black, smooth, suborbiculate, narrower than the thorax, 

 the last shorter than the head, suborbicuhite, rufo-testaccous, sparingly 

 punctulate, with a fovea behhid: c/y/m broader, but scarcely longer, than 



