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Sp. 1. scaber. Niger, obscurus, capite h'unneo, antennis pedihusqueferrugineisy 

 thorace postice bifoveolato. (Long. corp. 4 lin.) 



Ev. scaber. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal. 294. No. 3217. Ca. brunnipes- 

 Steph. Catal. 294. No. 3216. 



Black, thickly and minutely punctured, and under a strong lens appearing 

 clothed with a very short decumbent pubescence : head rather flat above, 

 dull brown, or obscure testaceous ; with two punctures between the eyes : 

 thorax narrowed behind, truncate in front and posteriorly, with two some- 

 what approximating incurved foveae towards the base: elytra rather wider 

 and shorter than the thorax : abdomen with the three anterior segments 

 depressed at the apex, the apical one more or less pitchy: legs ferru» 

 ginous : antennae the same. 



The first example I saw of this species was taken by Dr. Leach in 

 Devonshire ; it was afterwards found in Norfolk by Mr. Denny, to 

 whom I am indebted for my first specimen, and then by Mr. Rudd, as 

 below mentioned, who supplied me with a series, and by his suggestion 

 I acertained that the insect was synonymous with Ca. brunniceps of 

 Kirby. " Taken in a ditch at Aldham, near Hadleigh, in Suffolk, 

 by Mr. Spence, about May im<d:'— Kirby MSS. " Marton Lodge, 

 Yorkshire ; and Winterborne Stoke, Hants."*^ — Rev. G. T. Rudd. 



Genus DXXXIX. — Syntomium, Curtis. 



AntennoE inserted before the eyes, much longer than the head, two basal joints 

 a little thickened, ovate, second as long as the first and slender, five next 

 moniliform, the remainder forming a triarticulate club, of which the two 

 basal joints are cup-shaped, and the terminal one ovate-acute. Palpi short, 

 maxillary with the apical joint small, obconic-acute : mandibles very acute, 

 ciliated within : labrum slightly bilobed : head subglobose : e;i/es remote, 

 small : thorax with the lateral margins serrated, the base widest and 

 sinuated : abdomen broad, depressed, margined : legs short, slender : iibios 

 simple : tarsi five-jointed. 



This appears to be the only species of this family that possesses a 

 metallic gloss ; it may be known also by having the sides of the thorax 

 crcnulatcd ; the body wide and depressed, with the edges sharply 

 ridged ; exclusively of oral and other minor differences ; the species 

 is found at the roots of grass in chalky and arid situations. 



Sp. ]. nigroccneum. Nigro-ancum, punctaium, obscuriusculam, thorace subca- 

 riaalo, ubdoniinc (Ulululo. (Long. cor[). | — l lin.) 



