STEXID.E. STEKUS. 303 



rounded, longer than the head, rather attenuated behind, roughly punctured, 

 with an obsolete impression: elytra impressed behind near the suture, 

 roughly and thickly punctured with a fulvous dot in the middle : abdomen 

 subulate-conic, slightly margined, linely punctured : legs black, with the base 

 of the femora, and the tibitE luteous : antennae and palpi black. 



Found within the metropolitan district ; at Coombe Wood, &c.; — 

 also taken in Devonshire, and in Norfolk, Suffolk and near Carlisle. 



Sp. 6-1. bipustulatus. Punctulatus, ater, elytris puncto ferrugineo. (Long. corp. 



2^ lin.) 

 Sta. bipustulatus. Linne. — Sta. bipustulatus. — Steph. Catal. 291. No. 3162. 



Black, glabrous, rather obscure; head wider than the thorax, punctured 

 above, triangular, longitudinally depressed in the middle : thorax rounded, 

 a little attenuated behind, roughly punctured, with an impression on the disc 

 behind : elytra roughly and very thickly punctured, depressed near the 

 suture, with the shoulders elevated, the disc of each with a voxxnA ferruginous 

 dot 'mih.Q middle: abdomen subulate-conic, slightly margined, with the base 

 of the segments depressed and punctured : legs immaculate black : antennae 

 and palpi also black. 



Not very common : found at Hertford and Hampstead and other 

 places within the metropolitan district. " Among moss (near Swan- 

 sea.)" — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Lancashire." — Mr. Hutchinson. 



Sp. 65. binotatus. Ater, punctulatus, thorace postice aitenuato, elytris ina;qua- 

 libus piceis, puncto fulvo. (Long. corp. 2^ lin.) 



Ste. binotatus. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 291. No. 3164. 



Black, slightly punctulated : head triangular : thorax attenuated behind : 

 elytra unequal, longer than the thorax, pitchy, with a xoxmAeA fulvous spot on 

 the disc of each a little behind the middle : abdomen acute, with a short 

 seta on each side of the apical segment: legs antennae and palpi blnck. 



Taken near London, and in Norfolk ? 



C. Abdomen margined, its apex with a pilose process on each side. 



Sp. 66. Juno. Niger, prof undl punctatus, palpis basi tesiaceis, thorace elytrisque 

 foveolatis, fronte bicanaliculatd : mas: segmento ventruli penultimo profunde 

 emarginato, laciniis acutis, anfepenultimo etiam, emarj^inato, profunde im- 

 jiresso, bicarinato. (Long. corp. 2 — 2§ lin) 

 Ste. Juno. GyllenhalL— Steph. Catal. 291. No. 3165. 



Black, deeply punctured ; head much wider than the thorax with a scanty 

 short silvery-white pile, especially on the mouth, forehead bicanaliculatcd. 



