STAPHYLIXID.E. QUEDIUS. 217 



Broad, shining, black : head rounded, with a single impression on each side 

 near the eyes : thorax very smooth^ with a faint metallic tinge, and three 

 obsolete punctures on each side, placed obliquely: scutellum very smooth: 

 ehjtra opaque, with the lateral edge broadly pale testaceous : abdomen with a 

 violaceous or brassy tinge, the apex rufescent : legs pitchy ; tarsi rufes- 

 cent: antennae stout, fuscous-black, with the first joint and base of the two 

 next reddish. 



Although this conspicuous insect has been nearly twenty years in the collec- 

 tion at the British Museum, unnamed, it has never been recorded as indi- 

 genous, from having been accidentally omitted in my Catalogue. 



A single example taken in July, 1815, at Darenth-wood by Dr. 

 Leach, and a second in " Spitchweek-park," by Mr. Bentley, in 

 June, 1828, are the only specimens that I have seen. 



B. With the eyes moderate, or small ; the sides of the thorax not waved, 

 a. Thorax with a double row of two or three impressions. 



Sp. 8. haemorrhous. Niger, capite thoraceque nitidissim.is, lavibus, antennis 

 basi, pedibus, elytris punctulatis anoque rufescentibus. (Long. corp. 

 3§— 4 lin.) 



St. haemorrhous. KirbyMSS. — Qu. haemorrhous. Stevh. Catal. 277. iVo.2924. 



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

 smooth, with about four punctures towards the hinder angle, and one on 

 each side near the eyes : thorax smooth, glossy, with six discoidal spots, 

 the two posterior in each series approximating, and two or three on the 

 lateral margins : scutellum dusky : elytra shining, very much punctulated, 

 testaceous : abdomen with the margins of the segments both above and be- 

 neath, and the apex rufous : legs ferruginous : antennae dusky, with the 

 basal joint rufous : palpi rufous. 



Eound in boleti, and beneath the bark of willows. Not common ; 

 in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, as well ag in Norfolk and 

 Suffolk. 



Sp. 9. haemopterus. Ater, nitidus, elytris rubris, antennis pedibusque brunneis, 



(Long. corp. 4 lin.) 

 St. haemopterus. Kirby MSS.—Qu. haemopterus. Steph. Catal. 277. No. 2925. 



Black, shining: head suborbiculate, smooth, with three punctures on the 

 occiput, placed obliquely, and one near each eye : thorax smooth, with six 

 punctures, disposed in three parallel rows, the anterior two being rather 

 more distinct, and other punctures on the margin and anterior angle : elytra 

 pubescent, reddish : abdomen with the margins of the segments and the 

 extreme tip piceous : legs brown : antennae rather stout, brown or reddish- 

 black, the apical joint small : palpi fuscous. 



Occasionally found near London, and in Suffolk and Devonshire. 



