3G'2 WAKUIBULATA. COLKOhTKUA. 



Sta. obscurus. Taykull.—he. obscura. Steph. Catal. 298. No. 3292. 



Pitchy -black, pubescent, obscure : head very much punctulated, with an oblong' 

 impression on each side between the eyes, but not on the crown : thorax ob- 

 cordate, very much punctured, scarcely wider than the head, the sides 

 slightly margined, with two extremely obscure impressions on the disc : 

 elytra depressed, pitchy, very thickly and finely punctured : abdomen black, 

 scarcely punctured: legs dull testaceous, with the joints dusky: aniennce 

 pitchy-red, or dusky-testaceous. 



Elytra sometimes dull testaceous-yellow : or the insect entirely of that colour, 

 except the abdomen, which is dusky : both probably immature. 



Abundant within the metropolitan district, and not uncommon 

 in other parts of the country, as Devonshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, So- 

 mersetshire, &c. " Not unfrequent on the borders of Crwmlyn-bog." 

 — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 9. plagiata. Nigra, subpubescens, capite ihoraceque impressis, elyirorum 

 liturafemoribusque rufescentibus. (Long. corp. 2§ lin.) 



Sta. plagiatus. Paykull. — Le. plagiata. Steph. Catal. 299. No. 3296. 



Black, shining, slightly pubescent : head with two deep impressions between 

 the eyes, thickly punctured : mouth dull testaceous : thorax cordate, convex, 

 very much punctured, with an impression behind, the sides slightly mar- 

 gined : elytra twice as long as the thorax, very much punctured, with an 

 oblong, more or less distinct, and sometimes nearly obliterated, discoidal red 

 stripe : abdomen large, ovate, the terminal segment small : legs black, with 

 the base of the femora reddish : antennae hairy, black, with the base pitchy: 

 palpi pitchy. 

 This insect is also rare; at least few specimens are to be seen in the 



I^ondon cabinets ; mine were taken in the north, but this species has 



been fund within the metropolitan district. 



Sp. 10. rufitarsis. Atra, nitida, punctulata, tarsis rufis, mandibulis piceis. 

 (Long. Corp. \% lin.) 



Le. rufitarsis. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 299. No. 3294. 



Black, shining, punctured: head rather narrower than the thorax, nearly tri- 

 angular, with a fovea on each side behind the eyes : mandibles pitchy : 

 thorax convex, subequal, with an obsolete impression in the middle behind : 

 elytra much longer and wider than the thorax, impressed on each side ante- 

 riorly towards the suture: abdomen somewhat triangular, much shorter 

 than the elytra, very finely, and obscurely punctulated : legs black: tarsi 

 slender, red : antennce rather longer than the thorax, black. 



Found in Charlton Wood in June, and in Devonshire ; apparently 

 not very common. 



