STKNID.E. — PLATYSTHETUS. 313 



Sp. 4. sulcatus. Latus,niger,ni1idus, punctatus,eli/trb pedibusqve piceis, thorace 

 profunda vnisulcato, capite canaliculato. (Long. corp. IJ lin.) 



Sta. sulcatus. Marsham. — Oxyt. sulcatus. Steph. Catal. 293. No. 3181. — 

 PL sulcatus. Steph. Nomen. 2d. edit. col. 1 05. 



Broad, black, shining, glabrous, punctured: head with a channel heiweeu the 

 eyes in front: thorax convex, moderately punctured, with a broad deep 

 dorsal channel: elytra pitchy-black, rather deeply, but distinctly, punc- 

 tured, with a faint stria towards the suture : abdomen broad and glossy : 

 legs pitchy : aiitennte dusky. 

 Found near London and in Devonshire, and I believe also in 



Suffolk and Norfolk. " On the Crwmlyn sand-hills."— L. W. Dill- 



ivyn^ Esq. 



Sp. 5. brunnipennis. Ater, nitidus, crehrl punctatus, elytris hriinneis, pedibus 

 antennisque rufo-piceis, thorace obsolete unisulcato. (Long. corp. l^: lin.) 



Oxyt. brunnipennis. Steph. Catal. 293. No. 3182.— PI. brunnipennis. Steph. 

 Nomen. 2d edit. col. 105. 



Black, shining, glabrous, thickly punctate : head large, with a short transverse 

 impression and an abbreviated longitudinal one : thorax convex, dispersedly 

 punctured, with an obsolete dorsal channel: elytra reddish-Z»?"0i/^7?, depressed,, 

 punctured, the punctures somewhat disposed in a stria towards the suture: 

 abdomen black, ovate : legs pitchy-red ; antennas the same. 



From the Marshamian cabinet ; taken near London. 



Sp. 6. immunis. Ater, nitidus, jninctatus, elytris pedibusque rufo-piceis, thorace 



subsulcato, capite hand canaliculato. (Long. corp. 1§ lin.) 

 Oxyt. immunis. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 293. No. 3183.— PL immunis. 



Steph. Nomen, 2d edit. col. 105. 

 Black, shining, glabrous, punctured : head rather small, convex, without a 

 frontal impression : thorax ample, convex, the disc moderately punctured, 



with a delicate dorsal channel: e/;?/^rajt32Yc%-red, finely punctured: abdomen 



with the apex pitchy : legs pitchy-red : antennos dusky. 



Found in Suffolk, and Norfolk ; also in the New Forest. 



Sp. 7. foveatus. Ater, nitidus, elytris pedibusque rufescentibus, thorace canalicu" 



lata, utrinque fovea impress i. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 

 Oxyt. foveatus. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 293. No. 318i.— PL foveatus. 



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

 Black shining, glabrous ; head rather narrower than the thorax, with a 



slightly impressed longitudinal line on tlie occiput : thorax short, subclavatc, 



wilh a deep dorsal groove, and on each side a liroad dci:[) rnguloae fovea: elytra 



