354 



MANDIBUl.ATA. COl.KOHTF.n A . 



Not uncommon within the metropolitan district; also found in 

 SufFolk. 



Sp. 23. piceum. Piceum, punctulatum, antennis basi pe dibits elytrorvm hvmeris 

 anoque testaceis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 



Om. piceum. Kirby MSS.—Sfepk. Catal. 297. Xo. 3273.— Sieph. Nomen. 

 2(1 edit, col 108. 



Pitchy-red, finely punctured: head triangular, narrower than the thorax, 

 pitchy-black, with a longitudinal impression on each side between the 

 eyes: thorax somewhat transverse, widest in front, the disc with four ab- 

 breviated foveolae behind, the lateral ones broadest and oblique : elytra 

 nearly twice the length of the thorax, but wider, pitchy, with the shoulders 

 testaceous, finely and thickly punctulated throughout : abdomen very short, 

 smooth, slightly pubescent, pitchy, with its apex red: legs testaceous; 

 antennae testaceous, with the five terminal joints dusky. 



Taken near London, and in Devonshire and Suffolk. "Raehills." 

 — Rev. W. Little. 



Sp. 24. csesiim. Nigrum, subnitidum,, creberrim,e subtiliter punctulatum , antennis 

 fusco-testaceis basi nigricantibus, pedibus rufescentibus, thorace foveis duabus 

 brevihus ovatis. (Long. corp. li lin.) 



Om. csESum. Knoch. — Steph. Catal. 298. No. 3274. 



Black, slightly shining, thickly and very &ne\y punctulated : head subtriangular, 

 depressed, narrowed behind, with two oblong deep foveolae between the 

 eyes and two smaller obsolete ones between the antennae : the mouth testa- 

 ceous: thorax transverse, with the sides rounded and flat, the margins con- 

 siderably elevated; the disc slightly convex, posteriorly with two short 

 parallel deep ovate fovea : elytra depressed, thickly and rather irregularly 

 punctured, and longitudinally impressed near the suture and towards the 

 outer apex: abdomen smooth, with the margins considerably elevated: legs 

 reddish : antenncB dusky testaceous, with the base blackish : palpi testaceous. 



Also found within the metropolitan district, and on the coasts of 

 Norfolk, Suffolk, and Devonshire. " Beneath fuci, Mount Edge- 

 combe." — Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 25. rivulare. Nigrum, subnitidum,, punctatum, antennarum bast pedibusque 

 rufis, elytris fusco-testaceis, thorace foveis duabus longitudinalibus arcuatis. 

 (Long. corp. ]|^ lin.) 



Sta. rivularis. Paykull.—Om. rivulare. Steph. Catal. 298. No. 3275. 

 Black, slightly shining, rather deeply punctured : head triangular, with two 

 deep impressions on the 'crown between the eyes and two obsolete ones 



