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5/acAj slightly shining : head ovate^ shining, smooth, with a few punctures 

 behind the eyes, and four between : thorax also shining and smooth, with 

 two rows of rather obscure punctures on the disc, and a few impressions on 

 the margin; elytra pitchy-chestnut : abdomen dilated, with the apical segment 

 rufous : legs pitchy-brown or chestnut : antennae piceous, rather stout. 



Found near London, and in Devonshire : not very common. 



Sp. 14. fidvipes. Ater, nitidus, antennis obscuro-brunneis, elytris loevibus pedi- 



busque rufis. (Long. corp. 3 — 3§ lin.) 

 St. fulvipes. Fabricius. — Qu. fulvipes. Steph. Catal. 277. No. 2930. 



Black, rather shining: head very glossy, smooth, a little narrower than the 

 thorax_, with three impressions behind^ the intermediate one larger between 

 the antennae : thorax also very glossy and smooth, with discoidal impres- 

 sionSj placed very obliquely, and also a deeply excavated puncture on each 

 lateral margin, with four smaller ones anteriorly : elytra rufous, glabrous, 

 impunctate : abdomen black, with the edges of the segments and the extreme 

 tip dark reddish : legs rufous : antennce rufous at the base, the apex dusky-red. 



Not common : found within the metropolitan district, and in 

 Devonshire. 



Sp. 15. impressus. Niger, nitidus, elytris quadruplici serie impressis, margine 



omni rufo. (Long. corp. 3§ lin.) 

 St. impressus. Gravenhorst. — Qu. impressus. Steph. Catal. 278. No. 2931. 



Black: head smooth, very glossy, with about live punctures on the hinder 

 angle, and two on each side near the eyes : thorax very smooth and shining, 

 with six discoidal punctures, disposed in two oblique rows, and several 

 scattered ones towards the margin: elytra glabrous, shining, with the de^ 

 flexed sides, suture, and apex rufous, with four rows of impressions, one of 

 them near the suture, two on the disc, and the fourth on the lateral margin : 

 abdomen with the margins of the segments both above and beneath dull 

 rufous : legs pitchy, with the joints fuscescent: antennae pitchy-black. 



Slightly variable in the colour of the legs, and in the breadth of the coloured 

 edge of the elytra. 



Not very uncommon in dung, and beneath dead leaves, in the 

 vicinity of London ; found also in Suffolk, and in Devonshire. 



Sp. 16. sericopterus. Ater, nitidiusculus, antennis pedibusque rufo-brunneis, 



elytris sericeo-pubesceniibus brunneo-castaneis. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 

 Qu. sericopterus. Steph. Catal. 278. No. 2932. 



Black, rather glossy : head subovaie, smooth, shining, with a few punctures 

 behind the eyes, and one on each side between them : thorax also smooth 

 and glossy, with a faint double row of impressions on the disc, and a few 

 punctures on the margin : elytra chestnut-hrown, clothed with a long silken 



