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behind the eyes^ and two on each side between : thorax suborbiculate, with 

 a double row of small punctures on the disc, and some larger ones on the 

 margin: elytra slightly pubescent, with the apex pale pitchy: abdomen also 

 pubescent, with the margins of the segments narrowly edged with pale pitchy : 

 legs pitchy : antennae the same, palest at the base. 



Found on the coast of Norfolk. " Swansea." — Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 28. calignosus. Niger, subnitidus, elytris pubescentibus, pedibus nigra- 



piceis. (Long. corp. 2§ lin.) 

 Qu. calignosus. Steph. Cutal. 278. No. 2946. 



Black, slightly shining: head subovate, glossy, smooth, with some faint im- 

 pressions behind the eyes, and two larger ones on each side between them : 

 thorax rather elongate ovate, shining, smooth, with a double row of im- 

 pressions on the disc, placed obliquely, and a few more distinct ones on the 

 lateral margin : elytra pubescent, dull black, finely punctulated: legs pitchy- 

 black: antennas raXher slender, entirely black. 



Captured in the neighbourhood of London. 



c. The series of impressions on the thorax quinque-punctate. 



Sp. 29. lepidulus. Niger, nitidus, antennis elytris pedibusque rujls, abJomine 



segmentis apice piceis. (Long. corp. 2§ lin.) 

 St. lepidulus. Kirby MSS. — Qu. lepidulus. Steph. Catal. 278. No. 2948. 



Pitchy-black: head subcordate ; rather narrower than the thorax, shining, 

 smooth, the posterior angles punctured, and two punctures on each side be- 

 tween the eyes : thorax shining, smooth, with ten slightly impressed punc- 

 tures disposed in a double row, and others on the lateral margins : elytra 

 slightly pubescent, punctulated, reddish: abdomen with the margins of the 

 segments dull piceovs, of the penultimate one whitish : legs ferruginous : 

 antennae rufous, with the base paler. 



Rare : taken near London, and in Suffolk and Devonshire. 



-}-Sp. 30. inquinatus. Ater, nitidus, subpilosus, elytris rujis basi nigris, 



pedibus fuscis, (Long. corp. 2| lin.) 

 St. inquinatus. Kirby MSS. — Qu. inquinatus. Steph. Catal. 278. No. 2949. 



Slack, shining, rather pilose : head suborbiculate, punctate behind the eyes, 

 and with four impressions placed transversely between the eyes, one of them 

 on the margin itself: thorax with a double row of five impressions, three 

 intermediate, and two lateral, besides others on the margin itself: elytra 

 pilose, punctulate, rufous, with the base black : abdomen linear, sericeous 

 beneath: legs fuscescent, with the tarsi paler: antennae fuscous-black, with 

 the basal joint pitchy. 



Found in Suffolk : not common. 



