STENID-E. ASTEXUS. 2^3 



Sp. 2. tricolor. Filifo7-mis, niger, antenhis thorace pedibusque J'ulvis, elytris 

 rufo-piceis, ventre anoque rufescentibus. (Long. corp. If lin.) 



Sta. tricolor. Marsharn.—^n. tricolor. Steph. Catal. 287. No. 3084. 



Y'lViiorm, black, slightly shining: head scarcely punctured : Morcra? very finely 

 punctured, bright fulvous, dusky in front : elytra pitchy-red, minutely 

 punctured : abdomen beneath and its apex reddish : legs and antenne 

 Julvous. 



It is not improbable but that this species may be an immature state of the 

 foregoing. 



Found near London ; also in Suffolk, Norfolk, near Bristol, in 

 Devonshire, &c. 



Sp. 3. ochraceus. Rufo-piceus, capite nigra, antennis pedibusque rujis.. 



(Long, corp. If lin.) 

 Paed. ochraceus. Gravenhorst. — Su. ochraceus. Steph. Catal. 287. No. 3085. 



Pitchy-red : head cordate, smooth, black, slightly pubescent: thorax sub- 

 quadrate, with the angles rounded, smooth, with a very delicate short silken 

 pile : elytra pubescent, smooth : abdomen slightly pubescent, with long 

 divergent lateral hairs: legs pale testaceous: antennae filiform, red : palpi redi 



Found beneath stones : not uncommon near London ; also found 

 near Bristol, and in Suffolk. 



Sp. 4. rubricollis. Rufo-fuscescens, nitidulus, capite obscure, ore, thorace; 



antennisque rufis, pedibus pallidis. (Long. corp. 1 J lin.) 

 Psed. rubricollis. Gravenhorst.— Su. rubricollis. Steph. Catal. 287. No. 3086: 



Dusky-red, slightly shining: head small, obscure, orbiculate, very finely 

 punctured : thorax red, also finely punctured : elytra dusky-red, with a 

 slight griseous silken pile ; abdomen the same: legs pale testaceous: antenna; 

 and mouth rufous. 



Taken, but not uncommonly, near London, and near Dover. 



Genus DXXIII. — Astenus, Dejeam 



Antennas filiform, shorter than the thorax, the basal joint stout, second shorter, 

 obconic, third nearly as long again, subclavate, fourth to the tenth of nearly 

 equal length, shorter than the third, and gradually thickening, subturbinate, 

 eleventh as long and stout as the first, with the apex obliquely truncate. 

 Palpi maxillary, with the peimltimate joint stout, subacuminate, terminal 

 very minute ; head large, suborbiculate : eyes small, rather prominent : thorax 

 small, suborbiculate, subdepressed : abdomen linear, subtruncate at the 

 apex: legs slender ; tibicE simple; tew pentamerous, with the fourth joint 

 bifid ; anterior slightly dilated. 



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