296 M.AKDIBULATA. 'Ol. EOPTEUA. 



Ste. bifoveolatus. Gj/llvnhall. Inn. Siiec. iv. 500. — Ste- longicollis. Stejih. 

 Catal. 290. No. 3112. 



Short, deep black, slightly shining, ratlier tloeply pinictuicd : head wider than 

 the thorax, with two impressions on the forehead between the eyes, the inter- 

 mediate space elevated : thorax oblorig-, with the sides somewhat equally 

 rounded, convex above, with an oblique curved ivtjjrcssion on each side towards 

 the base : elytra moderately convex, thickly and prettily punctate, and with 

 a few scattered hairs : abdomen short, cylindric, finely punctured : legs 

 moderate ; femora pitchy-red, or dull testaceous, with the apex black ; 

 tibiae pitchy-brown, or testaceous: antenna jialc testaceous, yv'iih. the first and 

 three last joints black. 



Apparently not common : taken within the metropolitan district, 

 and also in Devonshire and near Bristol. 



2. With the legs black or fuscous. 



Sp. 44. lineatulus. Ater, punctulatus, palpis basi rvfis, abdomine segmentis basi 

 hiceold elevatu abbreviat .i longitudinali, tarsis elongatis, tenuibits. (Long. corp. 

 2| lin.) 



Ste. lineatulus. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Catal. 290. No. 3143. 



Black, somewhat glabrous : head wider than the thorax, triangular, roughly 

 punctured, bisulcate between the eyes: thorax somewhat elongate, and 

 slightly attenuated, roughly punctured, faintly pitted^ with a very obscure 

 dorsal channel in the centre behind : elytra roughly punctured with the base 

 somewhat pitted : legs black, with the tarsi rather elongate and slender : 

 abdomen subulate-conic, slightly margined, with the base of the segments 

 depressed, and marked with a faint longitudinal ridge : palpi reddish, with 

 the apex black. 



Found near London and in Norfolk, and Suffolk, not common. 



Sp. 45. buphthalmus. Niger, confertissime pnnctatns, argenteo-pilosus , thorace 

 oblongo, obsolete canaliculato, antennis brevibus. (Long. corp. 2 — 2^ lin.) 



Ste. buphthalmus. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal. 290. JVo. 3144. 



Black, thickly punctured, clothed with a silvery pile : head very broad, the fore- 

 head depressed between the eyes with two obsolete channels : thorax oblong, 

 rounded in front, narrowed and truncate behind, above moderately convex, 

 the back with an obscure channel: elytra convex: abdomen more glossy 

 than the rest of the body, slightly margined, finely punctured, the anterior 

 segments transversely impressed at the base; the penultimate segment 

 beneath, in the male slightly notched : legs slender, tarsi fuscous : antennas 

 short, black: palpi pitchy, pale at the base: eyes large, ovate, broivn. 



More abundant than the last; found in Battersea-fields and in 



