STENID-E. — STENUS. , 289 



whitish pubescence : head rather wider than the thorax^ with the forehead 

 broad and obscurely bicanaliculated : thorax rounded^ slightly convex^ the 

 surface equal: elytra convex, equal: abdomen acute at the apex, finely punc- 

 tured, the base of the segments depressed, the apex rarely smooth: legs 

 pitchy; antennae the same ; labrum testaceous, clothed ivith a silvery pile. 



Taken in Battersea-fields in the spring. 



Sp.23. fuscipes. Niger subnitidus, crehre punctatus, palpis, antennis extrorsum 



pedibusque ferrugineo-piceis, thorace oblongo. (Long. corp. 1§ lin.) 

 Ste. fuscipes. Gravenhorst.—Steph. Catal. 289. A"b. 3122. 



Black, slightly shining, and thickly punctured: head much wider than the 

 thorax, with the forehead obsoletely bicanaliculated : thorax oblong, dilated 

 on the sides a little before the middle, equal, not foveated : elytra above 

 conic : abdomen more glossy than the elytra, thickly, but finely, punctured : 

 legs rusty-pitchy, with the femora brightest or rufescent : antennce pitchy, 

 with the two basal joints black: mouth pitchy. 



Found near Dover, and in Norfolk and near Bristol. 



Sp. 21. flavipes. Ater, nitidus, pedibus palpis antennisque medio pallide luteis. 

 (Long. Corp. 1| — ]i lin.) 



Ste. flavipes. Kirby MSS. — Steph. Caial. 28. No. 3123. 



Black, shining : head triangular, much wider than the thorax, thickly clothed 

 with a velvety pile, having a silvery gloss in certain lights, depressed, punc- 

 tured, with the middle of the occiput slightly elevated and smooth : thorax 

 rounded, rather widest before the middle, less punctured than usual, 

 with a triangular smooth space on the disc : elytra punctate, depressed, 

 and slightly pitted at the base towards the suture : abdomen linear, much 

 narrower than the elytra, finely punctvired, with the apex of the segments 

 smooth : legs pale luteous : antenne the same, with the basal and two apical 

 joints black : palpi luteous. 



Not common ; taken near London ; also in Devonshire, Suffolk, 

 and Yorkshire. 



Sp. 25. circularis. Ater, obscurus, punctulatus, thorace subglohoso, pedibus fer^ 

 rvgineis, abdomine conico. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 



Ste. circularis. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal. 28. No. 3121. 



Black, obscure, glabrous : head rather wider than the thorax, triangular, 

 roughly pmictate, flattish between the eyes : thorax scarcely longer than the 

 head, subglobose, very roughly-pcmctate, the surface equal : elytra also 

 roughly-punctured, equal : abdomen conic, acute, rather faintly margined 



Mandibulata. Vol. V. 31st Dkc. 1833. u 



