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MANDIBULATA. COLEOl'TKUA. 



ones on the sides : elytra brassy-black, very much punctulated : legs 

 black : antenna filiform_, black, with the basal joint beneath rufous or fulvous. 



Var. j3. Ph. nigripennis. Steph. Catal. 280. No. 2966. — With the elytra of 

 a dusky, or fuscous, brassy hue ; and the basal joint of the antennte rufo- 

 piceous beneath. 



Not uncommon in dung throughout the metropolitan district ; 

 also found in Norfolk, Suffolk, Devonshire, &c. " (Near Swansea,) 

 not tmcommon.'''' — L. W. Dilhvyii, Esq. 



Sp 12. decorus. Ater, capite, thoraceque nigro-asneis, elytris obscuris, pedibus 



piceis, tarsis dilutioribus. (Long. corp. 4 — 5 lin.) 

 St. decorus. Gravenhorst. — Ph. decorus. Steph. Catal. 280. No. 2960. 



Black : head ovate, extremely glossy, blackish-brass, punctate behind the 

 eyes, and four larger punctures between the latter : thorax rather wider 

 than the head, also extremely glossy, and of a hlacVish-brass, with a double 

 series of impressions placed obliquely on the disc, and about five less dis- 

 tinct ones on each lateral margin ; one very deeply impressed on each side 

 of the posterior margin, and another near the neck : elytra slightly pubescent, 

 0^ an obscure dusky-brass : legs pitchy-hlack, with Me tarsi paler : antennae 

 clothed with a dusky pubescence, the base black and glabrous. 



Not very abundant ; found at the roots of trees and in dung in 

 Richmond Park, and occasionally taken in other parts of the metro- 

 politan district : it has occurred in Norfolk. 



Sp. 13. carbonarius. Niger nitidus, antennis crassioribus fuscis, ano tibiis 

 tarsisque fusco-ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 4 lin.) 



St. carbonarius. Gravenhorst, Micr. p. 23. — St. politus, var. /3. Paykull, 

 iii. 392. 



Slender, shining, black: head narrower than the thorax, subovate, with some 

 punctures on the vertex and forehead : thorax slightly tinted with brassy, 

 with a double series of rather deep impressions on the disc, and a few scat- 

 tered ones on the sides : elytra dusky-greenish, very thickly punctured : 

 abdomen with its extreme tip dusky-ferruginous : antenna rather stout, black, 

 the terminal joints fuscescent. 



I possess a single example of this species, which was captured in 

 the vicinity of London : it has also been observed near " Swansea."" 

 — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



-|-Sp. 14. cyanipennis. Ater, nitidus, elytris concinne violaceo-cyaneis. (Long. 



corp. 6 lin.) 

 St. cyanipennis. Fabricius. — Qu. cyanipennis. Steph. Catal. 279. JVb. 2955. 



Glossy-i^/acA; ; head small, suborbiculate, very smooth : thorax also very 



