242 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOl'TKU A, 



pubescent; abdomen obscure beneath, with the margins of the segments red- 

 dish : legs entirely rusty-red: antennsE subfiliform, slender, and, with the 

 palpi, pale testaceous. 



Not uncommon within tlie metropolitan district ; found also in 

 Norfolk, Suffolk, and in Devonshire. 



Sp. 2. attenuatus. Piceo-ater, nitidus, anfennis pedibusque testaceis, tlytris 



opacis subtilissivie punctulatis. (Long. corp. 2 — SJ§lin.) 

 St. attenuatus. Gravenhorst. — Ra. attenuatus. Steph. Catal. 282. No. 3004. 



Pitchy-black, shining: head very glossy, suborbiculate, smooth, with a few 

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

 glossy, with six punctures on the disc, placed in two oblique rows, and a few 

 smaller scattered ones on the sides : elytra opaque, very finely pimctulated, 

 sometimes slightly greenish : legs testaceous, with the posterior femora 

 above dusky : abdomen with the extreme edges of the ventral segments and 

 the tip pitchy : antennce short, testaceous. 



Less abundant than the last within the metropolitan district ; 

 found also in Devonshire. 



Sp. 3. Boops. Niger, nitidus, antennis pedibusque testaceis, elytris fuscis me- 

 diocre punctatis, oculis maximis oblongis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 

 St. Boops. Grav. Mi. p. 21. — Ra. Boops. Steph. Nomen. 2ded. column 101.* 



Shining-Z)Zac^" : head orbiculate, as wide as the thorax ; eyes very large, oblong, 

 nearly as long as the head: thorax very glossy and smooth, black, or some- 

 what pitchy ; with three deepish punctures on each side of the disc ; elytra 

 pubescent, slightly punctured, pitchy-black, with a greenish tinge : legs and 

 antennce tuio-testaceous, the latter palest. 



Taken in the north of England, and in Scotland. 



Sp. 4. nitipennnis. Niger, nitidus, antennis pedibusque fulvis, elytris nigro- 



ceneis, subnitidis. (Long. corp. 2J lin.) 

 Ra. nitipennis. Leach MSS.—Steph. Catal. 282. No. 3005. 



Black, shining : head orbiculate^ narrower than the thorax, smooth, glossy, 

 with three punctures near each eye, one anterior and two above, and 

 another larger one on the occiput on each side : thorax smooth, glossy, with 

 a double row of three discoidal impressions^ and a single one on each side : 



* The remarks of Mr. Curtis (under Cercopis vulnerata) relative to this 

 edition, from their self-evident violation of truth, excite in rae only commis- 

 eration for the failings of the writer ; in compassion, therefore, I refrain from 

 publishing a reply, and thereby expose the real origin of the Guide itself. 



