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the abdomen ; the terminal one subacuminate and pitchy : legs 7-ed;th.e ante- 

 rior femora thickened, and armed with a small tooth ; the anterior tibiae also 

 bearing a small tooth towards the base : antennse brown : palpi rufous. 



Also common near London, beneath stones, &c., in the winter and 

 spring ; and near Bristol, and in the New Forest. " Marton, York- 

 shire." — Rev. G. T.Rudd. "Not uncommon (near Swansea)." — 

 L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Cramond."— i?ey. W. Little. 



Sp. 3. atriceps. Ferrugineum, elytris pedibusque dilutioribus, capite nigro. 



(Long. Corp. 3| lin.) 

 Lat. atriceps. Kirhy MSS.—Steph. Catal. 286. No. 3070. 



Ferruginous: head subovate, black, glabrous, punctulated, rather shining; 

 thorax dark rust-colour, slightly glossy, punctulated, with a smooth longi- 

 tudinal line : elytra fulvous, with the base dusky, punctulated : abdomen 

 obscure : legs fulvous, anterior femora stout, and armed with a single tooih ; 

 antennae ferruginous, with the tip paler. 



Not common : found within the metropoHtan district, and in 

 Norfolk. " Taken by Mr. Dalton."— ^m% MSS. 



Sp. 4. elongatum. Nigrum, nitidum, thorace oblongo, elytris postice, pedibus 

 antennisque ferrugineis, femoribus tibiisque anterioribus dentatis : mas, seg- 

 mento penultimo abdominis subtus bis canaliculato sub-biemarginato. (Long, 

 corp. 4 lin.) 



St. elongatus. Linne. — Don. xvi.pl. 573, f. 3 — Lat. elongatum. Steph. Catal, 

 286. No. 3071. 



Elongate, shining, black : head rather wider than the thorax, subcordate, 

 punctulate : thorax oblong, very glossy, punctulated, with a smooth dorsal 

 line : elytra very thickly punctulated, black, with the apex broadly chestnut, 

 clothed with a fine, remote, pubescence : abdomen also slightly pubescent, 

 with a delicate white edge to the antepenultimate segment, the apical one 

 pitchy : the penultimate segment in the male beneath with two channels, 

 and somewhat doubly notched; of the female elongate subconic, with the 

 tip entire and rounded : legs ferruginous, coxae brown ; the anterior femora 

 and tibiae each with an obscure tooth : antennae and palpi brown. 



Sometimes very narrow, with the elytra nearly entirely of a chestnut colour. 



Very abundant in the neighbourhood of London ; also near Bris- 

 tol, in the New Forest, Devonshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, &c. " Com- 

 mon (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 5. fulvipenne. Nigrum, nitidum, thorace oblongo, elytris pedibusque testa" 

 ceis : mas segmento penultimo abdominis subtus simpliciter emarginato, baud 

 impresso. (Long. corp. 3§ lin.) 



St. fulvipennis. Fabricius. — Lat, fulvipenne. Sleph, Catal. 286. Ao.3072. 



