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Shining', slightly pilose : head small, orbiculate, black : mandibles pale testa~ 

 ceous ; palpi the same, with the apex dusky : thorax oblong, bright red, 

 with a few coarse punctures: elytra dark blue, or deep green, coarsely 

 punctured, slightly pubescent: abdomen red, with the two last joints, above 

 and below, black: breast black : coxte and femora red, the latter with the 

 apex rather broadly black; tibice, especially 'wiXh.oui. fuscous ; tarsi pitchy- 

 brown : antennae pale testaceous at the base, black at the apex. 



1 obtained a specimen of this insect from Hants, several years before it was 

 discovered? by Messrs. Chant and Bentley according to Mr. Curtis, and 

 had it named in my cabinet Pad. thoracicus, a name quite as applicable 

 as the one it now bears. 



The first known specimens of this insect — with the exception of 

 the one above referred to — were taken in the New Forest, Hants, by 

 Messrs. Chant and Bentley ; but in July 1826, when in company 

 with my friend Mr. Westwood, on Clandon Common, about three 

 miles from Ripley, the low bushes actually swarmed with this insect; 

 but although I have repeatedly gone to the same place at the same 

 period of the year, in hopes of obtaining more specimens (having 

 secured but few), I have been disappointed. 



Sp. 4. ruficoUis. Niger, subnitidus, capite cterulescente, elytris cdruleis, thorace 

 rvfo-testaceo, aniennarum basi subtus testaceo. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 



Pasd. ruficoUis. Fabricins.—Steph. Catal. 288. No. 3099. 



Black, slightly shining : head bluish-h\ac]< : thorax bright testaceous-rec/, very 

 convex: eli/tra deep blue, coarsely punctured; abdomen obsoletely punc- 

 tured : legs black : antennce black, ivith the basal joint testaceous beneath. 



Rare : taken near Swansea, and on other parts of the Welsh coast, 

 " Near Rarmouth, in plenty." — Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 5. sanguiuicollis. Violaceus, nitidus, elytris c<£ruleis, thorace rufo, anteitnis 



■pedibusqve totis nigris. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 

 Pad. sanguinicollis. Steph. Catal. 288. No. 3l00. 

 Violet, shining : head suborbiculate, punctured : thorax bright red, obcordate : 



elytra bright blue, thickly punctured : abdomen black, its apex bluish : legs 



and antennce totally black. 



Very rare : it has been captured on the north coast of Devonshire; 

 and I believe the specimen in the British Museum was found on the 

 coast of Glamorganshire. 



