244 MANDIRUI.ATA. COLF.OPTERA. 



Black, slightly villose : head narrower than the thorax, suborbiculate, ex- 

 tremely glossy, brassy-black, glabrous, smooth, with the ordinary punctures 

 on the occiput and between the eyes : thorax also hrassi/-black, and very 

 glossy and glabrous, with an oblique dorsal series of three punctures, then 

 two impressions placed anteriorly, and one, deeper, on the lateral margin 

 towards the base : elytra hrSLSsy -rufous : abdomen with the margins of the 

 ventral segments rufous: legs rufous, with the posterior femora dusky: 

 antennae and palpi testaceous. 



Apparently rare: found occasionally near London, and in Suffolk 

 and Norfolk. 



Sp. 9. fulvicollis. Rufo-piceus, nitidus, capite elytrisque atris, pedibus pallide 



iestaceis. (Long. corp. 2f lin.) 

 Ra. fulvicollis. Steph. Nojn. 2d edit. col. 101. 



Shining: head black, snborbiculate : thorax bright fulvous-red, glossy, smooth, 

 with two deep punctures on each side anteriorly, one on each lateral margin, 

 and two on the disc behind: elytra pitchy-black, with the suture and apex 

 paler, the disc finely punctured, pubescent : abdomen pale pitchy-red, with 

 the base of the anterior segments blackish : legs and mouth pale testaceous : 

 antennae pitchy. 



Taken beneath stones near Edinburgh. 



Sp. 10. ruficollis. Ater, thorace aniennis pedibusque rufis, elytris piceis. 



(Long. corp. .3| lin.) 

 St. ruficollis. Kirby MSS.—^a.. ruficollis. Steph. Catal. 282. No. 3009. 



Black : head very glossy, smooth, rather narrower than the thorax, suborhi- 

 culate, with two large punctures between the eyes, and three very minute 

 ones near them on each side : thorax pitchy-red, very glossy, with a double 

 dorsal series of three punctures, the anterior pair most remote, three other 

 punctures, placed triangularly, on the anterior angle, and four on the hinder 

 margin : elytra slightly shining, prit%y, sub-pubescent : abdomen rather 

 obscure, with the margins of the segments delicately edged with, and the 

 extreme apex, rufous : legs, palpi, and antennas rufous. 



Not common : found near Edinburgh, Carlisle, and on the coast 

 of Devonshire. "Swansea.'^''"' — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. "Taken in 

 the spring, near Ipswich."" — Kirhy MSS. 



Sp. 11. sericopterus. Ater, nitidus, antennis pedibusque rufo-piceis, elytris rufo- 



piceis, sericeo-pubescentibus. (Long. corp. 3^ lin.) 

 Ra. sericopterus. Steph. Nam. 2d edit. col. 101. 



Deep shining black : head small, somewhat ovate, smooth: thorax also smooth, 

 with two large punctures anteriorly on each side of the disc, and a few others 



