314 MANDIBULATA. COLEOrrEllA. 



/)i7cA_!/-red, punctulated, or pitchy : h-f^s testaceous, with the feino>-a pitc/ii/ : 

 antenncB entirely black : mandibles fuscous. 



Taken near London, and in Suffolk. 



Sp. 8. caliginosus. Niger, nitidiui, crehre punctatus, ore j'cd'hiisque pallldis, 

 thorace obsolete canaliculato. (Long. corp. 1^- lin.) 



Oxyt. caliginosus. Steph. Catal. 293. No. 3185. — PI. caliginosus. Sieph. 

 Nomen. 2d edit. col. 105. 



Black, shining, glabrous, very thickly punctured : head distinctly narroiver 

 than the thorax, without a, Jrontal impression : thorax rather small, Z(;z7/i a 

 very obscure dorsal cha7mel : elytra black or dusky-pitchy : /t'^^^joa/e pitchy- 

 red, with the tibiae and tarsi paler : antennas dusky, with the base paler : 

 mouth pale. 



Inhabits the metropolitan district, but apparently not very 

 common. 



Sp. 9. pallidipennis. Ater, nitidus, capite supra piano, inerrni, elytris paUidis 

 ?nargiiie nigricanti, tibiis tarsisque rujis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 



Sta. pallidipennis. Paykull. — Oxyt. pallidipennis. Steph. Catal. 293. iVo. 3186. 

 — PI. pallidipennis. Steph. Nomen. 2d. edit. col. 105. 



Black, shining, glabrous : head rather narrower than the thorax, above Jlat, 

 unarmed: thorax truncate in front, rounded behind, with a deep dorsal 

 groove : elytra pale, with the margin dusky, the disc punctured : abdomen 

 slightly pitchy at the apex : legs fuscous, with the tibice and tarsi red : antennae 

 dusky-black. 



Found in Suffolk ; I have taken a single specimen within the 

 metropolitan district. 



Genus DXXXIII. — Oxytelus, Gravenhorst. 



Antennw not geniculated, rather long, slightly thickened towards the apex, the 

 basal joint stoutest, three following small nodose, each of equal length, the 

 remainder gradually increasing, terminal one ovate, subacuminate. Palpi 

 maxiUary rather longest, the second and third johits obconic, the terminal 

 subulate; labial with the apical joint stoutest and acuminate : labrum sub- 

 quadrate : mandibles nearly straight, bidenticulate within : body elongate, 

 linear, depressed : head and thorax unarmed ; the former as wide or wider 

 than the latter in the males, narrow in the females : thorax itself mostly im- 

 pressed with longitudinal channels : legs short ; four anterior tibice outwardly 

 a little denticulate-pectinate, with the outer apex excised; posterior straight, 

 unarmed, ciliated ; tarsi scarcely retractile, distinctly triarticulate, the ter- 

 minal joint longer than the others united. 



