348 MANDIBULATA. COLKOPTERA. 



rather above twice the length of the thorax, shining-, pitchy-hrovrn, very 

 thickly punctulated : abdomen smooth, with its apex pitchy : legs testaceous : 

 antenna testaceous at the base, the apex black, the six terminal joints monili- 

 Jorni, pUose and pubescent. 

 Found near London; also in Suffolk and Somersetshire. 



Sp. 6. brunnipenne. Piceo-nigrum, nitidum, punctulatum, antennis, elytris, 



pedibusque hrunneis. (Long. corp. IJ lin.) 

 Sta. brunnipennis. Marsham. — Om. brunnipenne. Steph. Catal. 297. 



No. 3260. 



Pitchy-h\dick, shining: head flat, thickly punctulated: mouth brown: eyes 

 • black : thorax slightly narrowed behind, its hinder angles acute, not promi- 

 nent, the disc with two shallow foveae near the middle of the hinder margin: 

 elytra brown, very much punctulated, the punctures obscurely disposed in 

 striae: abdomen rather longer than the elytra: legs brown: antenna also 

 brown. 



Taken in the vicinity of the metropolis; also in Suffolk and 

 Norfolk. 



Sp. 7. picinum. Piceo-nigrum, glaberrimum, punctulatissimum, palpis tarsisque 

 rvjis, antennis suhjiliformibus. (Long. corp. l\ lin.) 



Om. picinum. Kirby MSS.Steph. Catal. 297. No. 3261, Om. piceum.— 

 Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 107. 



Linear, pitchy-black, shining, very glabrous: head very thickly punctured, with 

 two obsolete fovese in front : eyes moderately prominent : thorax thickly 

 punctured, with a very obsolete longitudinal furrow : elytra nearly as long 

 and as wide as the abdomen, very much punctured: abdomen darker than 

 the rest of the body, smooth: legs pitchy, tarsi red: ajitennoe shorter than 

 the thorax, nearly filiform, black, with the tip obscurely reddish : palpi 

 reddish. 



Found near London and in Devonshire. 



B. With the thorax subquadrate. 



Sp. brunneum. Rufo-brunneum, capite abdominis elytrorumque apicibus nigri- 

 cantibus, elytris substriato-punctatis. (Long. corp. 1 — 1§ lin.) 



Sta. brunneus. Paykull.—Om. brunneum. Steph. Catal. 297. No. 3262. 



Red-brow?i, shining, punctured : head dusky, punctulate, with an impression 

 on each side, composed of the two ordinary ones nearly united : eyes black : 

 thorax of a subquadrate obcordate form, with the sides somewhat margined, 

 very thickly pimctured, and two very obsolete impressions behind opposite 

 to the suture: elytra red-brown, with the tip dusky, very much punctured. 



