308 >1 A N 1) I liU L ATA. COLEOrTK U A. 



apex pitchy : femora pitchy: tibiaj red ; tarsi slender and testaceous: autcmiffi 



pitchy-brown. 

 Female without the hora on the head and thorax ; but with small tubercles in 



lieu. 

 The length of the horn on the head and thorax varies considerably m different 



specimens. 



Abundant on most of the sandy shores of England and on the 

 shores at the mouth of large rivers. " In plenty at Southend." — 

 Rev. G. W. Hope and Mr. G. Waterhouse. " Yorkshire."— i?eu. 

 G. T. Rudd. " Near Carhsle."— 7'. C. Heyshmu, E^cj. " Said to 

 have been taken in the neighbourhood (of Swansea)." — L. W. Dill- 

 wyn^ Esq. 



Sp. 2. Taurus. [Niger, nitidus, sparse j^unctatus, jiedihus castuneis, riifo- 

 ochraceis, saturd basi liigricanti : mas, capiie utrinque cornii tenui recto, 

 thorace anticl in medio cornH pilose arinaio. (Long. corp. 2§ — 85 lin.) 



Oxytelus Taurus. Ahrens. — Bl. Skrhnshirii. Curtis, m.. pi. lA^S. Steph. Catal. 

 292. No. 3171.— Bl. Taurus. Steph. Nom. 2d edit. col. 105. 



Black shuihig : head depressed in front, produced on each side at the base of 

 the antennae into a long thin vertical horn, the apex of which is chestnut : 

 thorax convex, with large remote scattered punctures and a dorsal channel ; 

 the anterior angles slightly produced, and the centre of the anterior margin 

 into a long obtuse horn, pilose and chestnut at the apex : elytra sparingly 

 and rather coarsely punctured, reddish-ochre, with a triangular dusky patch 

 at the base of the suture : abdomen black, its tip rusty : legs pale chest- 

 nut; tibia? and tarsi brighter : antennae chestnut: palpi rust-coloured. 



Female without the horn on the anterior margin of the thorax, and the head 

 furnished with two conical tubercles. 



The horn on the head and thorax also vary considerably in different specimens;, 

 as in the last species. 



Hitherto taken only on the coast of Norfolk, by ray friend the Rev. 

 T. Skrimshire, to whom I am indebted for my series of the insect. 



Sp. 3. lluddii. — Plate xxvii. J". 3. Augustus, niger, subnitidus,punctatus, anten- 

 nis,pedibus elytrisque ochreo-ritfis ; mas, capite utrinque cornu brevi, thorace 

 antict in medio cornu piloso armato. (Long. corp. 2 — 2^ lin.) 



Bl. Ruddii. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 105. 



Narrow, shining black, moderately punctured : head depressed in front, and 

 produced on each side into a short acute horn : thorax convex, rather finely 

 punctured, with a dorsal channel, and produced in the middle of the anterior 

 margin into a long, slender, straight horn, the apex of which is pilose: elytra 

 ochreous-red, with the suture and base dusky, rather finely and distinctly 



