1(J8 MANDIUUI-ATA. COLKOPTKllA. 



iivo last segments, and apex of the penultimate one, rufous: legs rufous: 

 antennie Jili form, fuscous, with the two basal joints paler. 



Very rare in England : taken near Swansea, and I believe within 

 the metropolitan district. 



Genus CCCCXCV. — Ischnosoma* mihi. 



A/itennw stout, ll-joiiiteil, distinctly thickened towards the apex, the basal 

 Joint large, elongate, obconic; second short, nodose; third elongate, 

 obconic ; slender at the base ; the remainder shorter than the second, and 

 gradually stouter, truncate at the apex, the terminal one being ovate-obtuse, 

 or slightly acuminate. Paljii viaxillarii with the third j'oint large and swollen, 

 the apical one minute and subulated : head small, elongate : thorax ample, 

 as Avide as the clijtra behind, the latter pnnctate-striate : abdomen slender, 

 elongate, setose : legs short ; tibia: spinose. 



Ischnosoma may be readily distinguished from the preceding genus 

 (with which it has great similarity in habit) by the slender atte- 

 nuated body, and especially by the diversity in the structure of the 

 palpi, wliich have the third joint swollen, with the terminal joint 

 minute and subulated ; whereas in Megacronus the terminal joint is 

 longer than the third, and acuminated, with the preceding one of 

 similar bulk at the base : notwithstanding which, the two genera 

 have been recently reunited, with the following genus, which differs 

 in other points, under the general name Bolitobius, than which 

 nothing can be more unnatural. The species of the present genus 

 are found in grassy places during the summer. 



Sp. 1. splendens. Ater, niiidus, elytris, ana pedibusque rufis, elytris lined medid 

 e punctis impressis. (Long. corp. SJ lin.) 



St. splendens. Marsham. — Is. splendens. Steph. Catal. 268. No. 2in%. 



Shining, black, smooth, glabrous: head very glossy, suborbiculate : thorax 

 narrowed in front, dilated, and truncate behind : elytra bright sanguineous- 

 red, each with a stria composed of punctures : abdomen twice as long as the 

 elytra, luith the tip rw^o-ferruginous : legs rusty-testaceous: antenna; clavate, 

 black the base slender, testaceous. 



x\pparently scarce: I possess the original specimens from the 

 IVIarshamian Collection, and one that I captured near London ; it 

 has also been taken in Suffolk. 



* lo'xi'of, gracilis, Sw/ia, corpus. 



