2'.)2 MANDIRULATA. COI.EOl'TKR A. 



Genus DII. — Crkophilus, Kirhy. 



Antenna; subclavate, scarcely longer than the head, ll-jointed, pubescent, the 

 basal joint large, elongate, obconic, the two following shorter, also obconic, 

 the remainder very short, lenticular, gradually incrassated, the terminal one 

 obliquely truncate. Palpi subfiliform ; maxillary glabrous, the terminal 

 joint attenuated at the base and apex : head large, broad, transverse: eyes 

 oblong: thorax transverse, broadest in front, subemarginate, glabrous, 

 polished: scutellum subtriangular : coleoptra quadrate, depressed towards 

 the suture, the shoulders gibbous : abdomen with the last segment deeply 

 emarginate in the male: /e^A- elongate, stout; //Z>tVc setose; ^a?-At, anterior, 

 very much dilated. 



The subclavate antennae of the insects of this genus, combined 

 with their great bulk, strong dentate jaws, broad head, irregularly- 

 pubescent body, but smooth, polished, glabrous, thorax, and the 

 dissimilarity of the structure of the palpi, are sufficient to point out 

 their distinctions. 



Sp. 1. maxillosus. Ater, nitidus, pubescens, fascia elytrorum et abdominis ven- 

 treque cinereis. (Long. corp. 6 — 10 lin.) 



St. maxillosus. Linne. — Don. iii. pi. 9Q. f. 3. — Cr. maxillosus. Steph. Catal. 

 274. No. 2888. 



Black, shining: head glabrous, broader than the thorax, suborbiculate, with 

 some large impressions behind the eyes : thorax semicircular, subemargi- 

 nate in front, with the angles deQexed, the disc very smooth, with some- 

 times two or four large impressions : elytra much punctulated, with a cen- 

 tral angulated villose-cinereous fascia, in which are about seven large im- 

 pressions on each elytron, placed longitudinally, the posterior margin ciliated 

 with black: abdomen with a subinterrupted cinereous-villose fascia above, 

 and the three basal segments beneath densely cinereous : legs black; ante- 

 rior tarsi dilated, fulvous within: antennfe dusky-black, pubescent. 



The ashy pile on the elytra and abdomen is frequently more or less denuded. 



Very common in carcasses, and beneath old bones, dung, stones, 

 putrid vegetables, &c., especially on the coast. " Common near 

 Swansea." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Cramond." — Rev. W. Little. 



fSp. 2. ciliaris. Ater, cinereo-puhescens, scutello, elytris apice, abdomine seg- 



mentis m,argine anoque fulvo-aureis. (Long. corp. 7^ lin.) 

 Cr. ciliaris. Leach MSS.— Steph. Catal. 274. No. 2889. 



Black: head scarcely broader than the thorax, glabrous, punctulated, with 

 larger impressions behind the eyes, the sides slightly ashy-pubescent : thorax 



