300 M.wniBULA r.\. — coi-eopteka. 



Like Ste. affinis, but narrower, with tlic tliorax cyliiidric and not channellcil. 



Inhabits Suffolk and tlie New Forest, and, I believe, the vicinity 

 of Bristol. 



Sp. 55. carbonariiis. Tot us ater, par tan puhcscens, confcrtissime punctatus, 

 thorace oblongo, suhdepresso, obsolete Jbvcolato, ahdomine latihs marginato. 

 (Long. corp. 9^ lin.) 



Ste. carbonarius. Gi/llenhall. Ins. Suec. iv. p. 505. — Ste. nitidulus. Leach 3ISS. 

 Steph. Caial. 290. No. 3154. 



Entirely black, slightly pubescent, and very thickly punctate: head wider than 

 the thorax, opaque, with two broad channels between the eyes, the ridge 

 between ovate and elevated: eyes large, brown: thorax oblong, with the 

 base and apex truncate, slightly convex, vith two more or less obscure im- 

 pressions on each side, one towards the middle, the other near the base : elytra 

 also slightly depressed, opaque, with a short ashy pile : abdomen glossy, finely 

 punctured and distinctly margined ; the anal segment in the male beneath 

 triangularly notched, and the two preceding ones impressed : legs long, with 

 brown tarsi: antennae short, black: palpi black, pitchy at the base. 



Taken in Battersea-fields and in Devonshire ; apparently not very 

 common. 



Sp. 6(3. nitidus. Ater, nitidus, glaherrimus, thorace siibgloboso, antennis ])alpisque 

 hasi testaceis, abdomine submarginato laviusculo. (Long. corp. If lin.) 



Ste. nitidus. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Cofal. 290. No. 3155. 



Deep shining black, very glabrous, punctured : head wider than the thorax, 

 longitudinally elevated in the middle, the mouth clothed with shining silvery 

 hairs: thorax subglobose, the surface equal, with a minute impression on each 

 side : elytra scarcely longer but wider than the thorax, with the suture 

 depressed : abdomen slightly margined, nearly smooth, with the segments 

 transversely depressed in the middle: legs dusky: antennw testaceous, wiih 

 the basal joint and club black: palpi testaceous with the terminal joint dusky. 



Inhabits Battersea-fields ; found also in Suffolk and in Devon- 

 shire. 



Sp. 57. nitens. Ater, nitens, antennis piceis, thorace elytrisque excavato-punctatis. 

 (Long. corp. 1| lin.) 



Ste. nitens. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 290. No. 3156. 



Deep shining black, cylindric, with a very short whitish pile : head suborbicu- 

 late, wider than the thorax, coarsely punctate, with a faint obtusely elevated 

 longitudinal ridge between the eyes : thorax rather widest a little before the 

 middle, the base distinctly narrowed, the disc coarsely punctured : elytra as 



