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the punctures towards the suture disposed in strife, the strise somewhat 

 punctured : abdomen with the margins considerably elevated-, the penultimate 

 segment pitchy-Z>/ficA- : legs pale testaceous-red : antennas and palpi red. 

 The head, apex of the abdomen, and tips and suture of the elytra, are some- 

 times black. 



Taken within the metropoKtan district. " South Creek, Norfolk." 

 JRev. T. Skrimshire. " In the flowers of the whitethorn in May 

 1804-9."— if^r6^/ MSS. 



Sp. 9. iopterum. Rufuvi, nitidum, capite, pectore anoque nigris, elytris dense 

 striato-pundatis. (Long. corp. 1 — 1^ lin.) 



Om. iopterum. Kirby MSS. — Steph. Catal. 297. No. 3263. 



Linear, narrow, shining red : head very thickly punctured^ black above, red 

 beneath : eyes black : thorax subquadrate, somewhat retuse in front, red- 

 brown, thickly punctured: elytra pitchy-black, with the shoulders and 

 lateral margins reddish, the disc thickly punctate' striate : abdomen as long as 

 the elytra, with the apex black : breast Tpitchy-black : legs red : antennae 

 black, with the base red : palpi red. 



This may be a variety of the preceding insect : or rather the opposite sex. 



The abdomen is sometimes black, and the thorax dusky. 



Found near Hertford and other places within the metropolitan 

 district ; also in the New Forest, and in Devonshire and Suffolk. 

 "Rare; in the flowers of the whitethorn." — Kirby MSS. 



Sp. 10. sordidum. Sordide Jlavo-testaceum, suhtilissime punctulatum, antennis 

 apice oculisque nigris. (Long. corp. If lin.) 



Om. sordidum. Kirby MSS. — Steph. Catal. 298. No. 3264. 



Bull testaceous-yellow : head equal, a little narrower than the thorax, dusky 

 testaceous, very finely punctured: eyes black, prominent : thorax of a rounded 

 quadrate form, very delicately punctured : elytra longer than the thorax, 

 paler than the rest of the body, and finely punctured : abdomen dusky, 

 nearly as long as the elytra: legs yellowish : antennce as long as the thorax, 

 black, with the base yellow. 



Inhabits the metropolitan district, but not common. " Taken by 

 Mr. Sheppard."— Alr6i/ MSS. 



Sp. 11. striatum. Nigrum, nitidiusculum, antennis basi, ore pedibusque rufes- 

 centibus, elytris piceis punctato-striatis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 



Om. striatum. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal. 297. No. 3265. 



Bhick, rather shining, glabrous : head depressed, very much punctured, coarc- 

 tate behind the eyes: mouth red: thorax with the sides rounded, scarcely 



