280 MANDIHULATA. COl.KOl'TKJ! A . 



with the base of the joints Boniethiies reddish: aiiteiinse fuscous, with the 

 base rufous. 



Gravenhorst appears to have confused this and the following species in his 

 Monograph, the characters he has assigned to the respective insects being 

 evidently transposed, if our common species be the true Linnaean one, of 

 which there appears no doubt. 



Not found near London ; but not uncommon on several of the 

 coasts, and on the borders of large rivers near their junction with the 

 sea ; rather abundant on the coast of Devonshire. "■ In great 

 plenty in the sedge boats at Cambridge, March 1831." — C. C. 

 Bahington, Esq. " Carlisle."— 7". C. Hey sham, Esq. 



Sp. 2. riparius. Rufus, capite, mandibulis, abdominis apice, pectore, cuxis 

 posticis, genubusque nigris, elytris ccerideis, ihoruce globoso, suborbiculato. 

 (Long. corp. 3§ — 4 lin.) 



Sta. riparius. Linne.— Donovan, v. pi. 167.— Psed. riparius. Steph. Catal. 238. 

 No. 3097. 



Shining, slightly pilose : head large, orbiculate, black : mandibles black : palpi 

 fulvous, dusky at the apex : thorax short, very globose, suborbiculate, 

 bright red : elytra deep blue, or greenish, very coarsely punctured : abdomen 

 red, the two last segments, both above and below, black: breast black: 

 four anterior cox^e red, two posterior black: femora red, the apex of all 

 broadly black; tibiae red; tarsi also red, with the tips of the joints slightly 

 brownish: antennae pale testaceous, with the apex dusky, the terminal joint 

 pale, sometimes testaceous. 



Very abundant _at the roots of large trees, or in grass, moss, &c. 

 throughout the year,* within the metropolitan district, and not 

 uncommon in other parts of the country. " Very common (near 

 Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Common at Cambridge." — 

 C. C. Babington, Esq. 



Sp. 3. fuscipes. Rufus, capite {ore excepto'), abdominis apice, pectore genu- 

 busque nigris, tibiis tarsisque piceo-fuscis, elytris caeruleis, thorace oblongo. 

 (Long. corp. 2 — 3 lin.) 



Paed. fuscipes. Curtis, iii. pi. 108.— Paed. fulvipes. Steph. Catal. 288. No. 3098. 



* On the 1st of January, 1825, 1 captured about eighty specimens at Ripley, 

 beneath a small quantity of moss, — not rtiore than would fill a quart measure, 

 — in which, so densely congregated were these and other insects, that I 

 actually obtained hi less than one hour no less than 413 dozen specimens of 

 Coleoptera! 



