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Black : head subcordate, very glossi/, smooth, with several punctures on the 

 hinder ang-Ie, and two between each eye : thorax with eight discoidal punc- 

 tures, disposed in two lines, and others on the lateral margins, and a fovea 

 on the hinder margin : elytra pitchy, pubescent, very much punctured : 

 abdomen with the penultimate segment delicately bordered with white : 

 legs rufo-piceous, with the anterior cox£e dusky : antenna; black. 



Rather uncommon: found occasionally near London; and in 

 Suffolk and Devonshire. 



Sp. 21. picipes. Niger, pubescente-ohscurus , capite thoraceque glabris nitidis, 



elytris pedibusque piceis. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 

 St. picipes. Kirby MSS. — Qu. picipes. Steph. Catal. 278. No. 2937. 



Black, with a rather long but sparing ashy pubescence : head subcordate, 

 shining, smooth, glabrous, punctate as in Qu. picatus : thorax also smooth 

 and glabrous, with the ordinary series of discoidal impressions, and others 

 on the sides : elytra obscure, piceous, very minutely punctulate : abdomen 

 with the penultimate joint slightly margined with white, the terminal one 

 at the tip beneath reddish : legs xvdo-piceous, with the anterior coxae dusky : 

 antennce black, with the basal joints pitchy. 



Found occasionally within the metropolitan district; also in 

 Suffolk. 



Sp.22. hirtipennis. Niger, nitidiusculus, elytris pubescente-obscuris, pcdibvs 



ferrugineis, antennis thorace brevioribus. (Long. corp. 2|- lin.) 

 St. hirtipennis. Kirby MSS. — Qu. hirtipennis. Steph. Catal. 278. No. 2939. 



Black, rather shining, similar in all respects to Qu. picipes, but the antennae 

 are shorter than the thorax ; the neck stouter : the elytra clothed with 

 longer and more rigid pubescence ; the legs of an obscure ferruginous, and 

 the margins of the abdominal segments beneath reddish. It may possibly be 

 a mere variety, or an immature state of the preceding. 



Found also within the metropolitan district, and in Suffolk ; but 

 rarely. 



-|-SiJ. 23. sericans. Ater, nitidus, thorace sei'icante, elytris pedibusque rtfescen- 



tihus. (Long. corp. 2j lin.) 

 St. sericans. Kirby MSS.—Qu. sericans. Steph. Catal. 278. No. 294.0. 



Black, shining, pilose : head suborbiculate, punctured behind the eyes, and 

 with four impressions placed transversely between them : thorax with a 

 slightly silken gloss, with a double series of four deeply impressed punc- 

 tures, rather diverging, and five others towards the margins ; elytra dull 

 rufous, pilose, punctulated : abdomen acute, with the edges of the segments 

 beneath rufous : legs dull reddish : antennce black, iviih the base rufo-piceous. 



Taken in Suffolk, by Mr. Kirby. 



