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elytra Ara^iy-black, slightly shining, pilose: abdomen also pilose: legs 

 Julvous : palpi and antennae the same. 



Rare : found in Battersea-fields, and in Devonshire. " ]\iarton." 

 —Rev. G. T. Riidcl. 



Sp. 5. picipennis. Niger niiidus, antennis rufo-piceis, pedibus pallide rufo- 



testaceis, elytris piceis. (Long. corp. 2§ lin.) 

 Ra. picipennis. Steph. Nom. 2d edit. col. 101. 



Shining black: head suborbiculate, smooth: thorax with about five minute 

 punctures on each side, its hinder margin slightly pitchy : elytra pitchy, 

 with a faint greenish tinge : abdomen with the margins of the segments and 

 its apes pitchy-red ; legs pale testaceous-red ; antennce pitchy-rec?. 



Found, but rarely, near London. 



Sp. 6. rufipennis. Ater, obscurus, capite thoraceque politis, elytris antennis 



pidibusque 7-uJis. (Long. corp. 2f lin.) 

 St. rufipennis. Kirby MSS. — Ra. rufipennis. Steph. Catal.282. JVo. 3006. 



Black, shinmg: head somewhat rovmded, narrower than the thorax, glossy, 

 smooth, with two punctures behind, and one between, the eye, on each side : 

 thorax also glossy, with three discoidal impressions on each side, placed 

 obliquely, and a few others on each of the lateral margins: elytra rufo- 

 Jerruginous, with a dense griseous pubescence : four anterior legs testaceoiLS, 

 two posterior red: antennae and palpi rufo-testaceous. 



Also rare : my specimens I obtained from the Marshamian Collec- 

 tion; the insect has been found in Suffolk. " Sea-shore, Redcar." — 

 Rev. G. T. Rudd. 



Sp. 7. fuscipes. Niger, antennis pedibusque fuscis, femoribus rufesceniibus, 



elytris nigro-ceneis. (Long. corp. 2f lin.) 

 St. fuscipes. Kirby MSS. — Ra. fuscipes. Steph. Catal. 2S2. No. 3007. 



Black, shining, smooth: head orbiculate, slightly tinted with brassy, with 

 four punctures between the eyes, and about three behind them : thorax 

 also somewhat brassy, with two approximating punctures on each side 

 placed obliquely, then two remote ones in a straight line, followed by three 

 other oblique ones towards the centre of the disc : elytra of a pitchy brassy- 

 black, slightly pilose and punctulated : abdomen rather obscure : legs fuscous, 

 with the femora reddish : antennce fuscous, with the basal joint reddish. 



Found on the banks of the Thames near Gravesend. " Holrae- 

 near-the-sea, Norfolk." — Kirby MSS. 



Sp. 8. semiaeneus. Niger, capite thoraceque nigro-ceneis, antennis pedibus, 

 elytris abdomineque segmentis ventralibus margine riifis. (Long. corp. 2| lin.) 

 St. semiaeneus. Kirhy MSS. — Ra. semieeneus. Steph. Catal. 282. No. 3008. 



