STEXID.E. AtLODERUS, 321 



Not an imcommon species in some parts; found in the New 

 Forest, and in Suffolk and Devonshire. 



Sp. 18. opacus. A^iger, Icevis, opacus, thorace obsolete irisulcato, pedibus riijis, 

 elytris planiusculis. (Long. corp. 1 — 1^ lin.) 



Oxyt. opacus. Kirbij MSS.—Sleph. Caial. 296. No. 3204. 



Pitchy -black, opaque : head triangular, nearly as wide as the thorax, scarcely 

 punctulate, unequal, forehead depressed on each side : thorax scarcely as 

 long as the head, truncate and widest in front, rounded behind, smooth, 

 with three obsolete longitudinal grooves, and the sides depressed into a fovea : 

 elytra rather depressed, smooth, abdomen somewhat glossy, with the apex a 

 little acuminated : legs red, with, the femora darker : antennae black. 



The tibiae and tarsi are sometimes testaceous. 



Very abundant within the metropolitan district in the spring ; found 

 in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Devonshire. " Near Swansea." — L. W. Dill- 

 ivyn, Esq. 



Sp. 19. pusillus. Niger, opacus, subtilissime punctidatus, thorace obsoletissime 

 bisulcato, pedibus pallide rujis, elytris planiusculis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 



Oxyt. pusillus. Leach MSS. — Steph. Catal. 294. N'o. 3206. 



Black, opaque, very finely punctured : head small, unequal, suborbiculate, 

 obsoletely punctured: ^Aoraa; more distinctly punctured, with two obscure 

 longitudinal channels on the disc and a slightly impressed fovea towards each 

 lateral margin behind: elytra somewhat depressed, pitchy-h\ack: abdomen 

 slender, linear : legs pale red : antennae black, the base dusky. 



Taken in Suffolk and in Devonshire. 



Genus DXXXIV. — Aplodekus* mihi. 



AntenncB increasing from the base to the apex, the basal joint large, elongate 

 clavate, the two following joints short, obconic, the remainder globose-tur- 

 binate, the last being ovate-acute. Palpi with the penultimate joint clavate, 

 the extreme one minute, filiform: labrum small, subquadrate: head ox\A~ 

 culate : eyes rounded, lateral, somewhat incurved : thorax somewhat de- 

 pressed, uneven, notched in front to receive the head, narrowed behind, with 

 the angles a little rounded, being of a lunate-obcordate form, the sides 

 slightly margined : abdomen somewhat linear, rather broadest towards the 

 apex, which is acute : legs moderate ; femora linear ; tibia; and tarsi as in 

 Oxytelus. 



* AttXooc simplex ; Cicn\ colluni. 



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