150 MAXDIBULATA. COLEOPTEUA. 



■with the apex fuscous : legs jnile testaceous: (inioir.w shorter \.\\an the thorax, 

 chivate, the basal joint rufescentj the tcrmuial joint longer than the rest, 

 ovate : palpi rut'ous. 



Taken witliiii the metropolitan district; also in Norfolk and 



Suffolk. 



•f-Sp. 129. nigro-fusca. Nigro-fusca, vitidiitscula, capite ahdominisque medio 



nigris, pedibus rvfis, aiitcnnis brevihus incrassatis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 Al. nigro-fusca. Kirbij MSS. — Steph. Catal. 266. A'o. 272i. 



Duskij-black, shining, clothed with a very short dull silken pubescence : head 

 much narrower than the thorax, orbiculatc, black: thorax truncate in front, 

 somewhat rounded behind, dusky-red, or fuscous, with a very obsolete 

 channel: elytra longer and a little wider than the thorax, subquadrate, 

 fuscous, depressed near the base of the suture, with the apex emarginate 

 towards the exterior angles : abdomen linear, above twice the length of the 

 elytra, black, with the base and apex dull fuscous : legs ferruginous : antennjB 

 shorter than the thorax, stout, fuscous, slightly thickened towards the apex, 

 the intermediate joints subquadrate, the apical one large, oblong, obtuse. 



"Taken at Barham, during a flood, in January, 1809." — 

 Kirhy MSS. 



Sp. 130. ruficornis. Mitida, fusca, untennis, thoracis lateribus, elytris pedi" 



busque mfo-testaceis, thorace fovea posiicd. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 

 A\. ruficornis. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal. 266. No. 2725. 



Fuscous, shining, clothed with a silken pubescence, and very delicately pimc- 

 tured : head black, smaller than the thorax, rounded: thorax a little nar- 

 rowed in front, truncate, with the sides and base rounded, and testaceous : 

 the latter in the middle ivith an obsolete transverse fovea : elytra scarcely 

 broader, but much longer than the thorax, xuio-lestaceous : abdomen thrice 

 as long as the elytra, with the margins of the segments and the apex testa- 

 ceous : legs pale testaceous : antennce dull ferruginous, with the base pale 

 testaceous, a little thickened exteriorly, with the apical joint elongate, 

 conic, acuminated. 



This large and conspicuous species is apparently very rare : I 

 have hitherto seen my own specimen only, which was captured in 

 Norfolk by Professor Lindley. 



Sp. 131. lata. Nigricans, obscuriuscula, elytris pedihusque rufo-testaceis, abdo- 

 minis segmentorum marginihus rufescentibus. (Long. corp. H- lin.) 

 Al. lata. Steph. Catal. 266. No. 2726. 



Husky-Hack, slightly pubescent, broad, rather obscure : head small, inflexed, 

 suborbiculate, black : thorax ample, convex, with a moderately deep fovea 

 in the middle of the hinder margin: elytra longer than the thorax, and 



