OMALID.E. LESTEVA. 363 



Sp. 11. nigripes. Atra, punctata, suhnitida, pubescens, jiedibus eoncoloribus, 

 antennis piceo-fuscis. (Long. corp. IJ lin.) 



Le. nigripes. Steph. Catal. 299. No. 3295. 



Deep black, scarcely shining, clothed with a short pubescence, finely punctured 

 throughout : head triangular, with a deep impression on each side in front : 

 thorax cordate, convex, the disc punctured^ but without any impression or 

 channel : elytra finely punctured throughout, nearly as long as the abdomen, 

 which last is totally black, and has its apex acute, and but slightly exposed: 

 legs totally black: antennce dusky-hlack. 



I have a pair of this insect, taken many years since in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London. 



Sp. 12. impressa. Ferrxiginea, punctulata, pubescens, oculis abdomineque uigris, 

 thorace lacunoso. (Long. corp. 1§ lin.) 



Le. impressa. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 299. No. 3296. 



Ferruginous, pubescent, rather shining; head triangular, dusky-ferruginous, 

 very much punctured, with a fovea on each side between the eyes : eyes 

 black: thorax obcordate, scarcely margined, very much punctulate, irregu- 

 larly impressed : elytra longer and wider than the thorax, very much punc- 

 tulated, with two obsolete foveae near the suture; abdomen shorter and wider 

 than the thorax, black, or pitchy, smooth, with the apex acuminate : legs 

 pale red: antenns the same : palpi filiform. 



Found in the vicinity of the metropolis and in Somersetshire. 

 " Taken beneath rejectamenta of an inundation of the river, at Bar- 

 ham, in the spring of ISOy.'' — Kirby MSS. 



Sp. 13. planipennis. Linearis, atra, subnitida, elytris deprexsis pedibusque Ivridis, 

 antennis ferrugineis, thorace impresso. (Long. corp. If lin.) 



Le. planipennis. Kirby MSS.— Steph. Catal. 299. No. 3297. 



Linear, black, clothed with a very obscure pubescence, and slightly shining : 

 head rhomboidal; with three longitudinal impressions on each side between 

 the antennse : thorax rather slender, widest in front, punctured, irregularly 

 impressed, and with an obsolete smooth longitudinal ridge : elytra twice as 

 long as the thorax, depressed, very much punctulated, lurid, with the base 

 dusky near the suture : abdomen linear, rather longer than the elytra : legs 

 \vv\A-yellow : antennoe ferruginous : palpi reddish, svibulate at the apex. 



Taken in Yorkshire by Mr. Spence, and I possess a specimen from 

 the neighbourhood of Bristol. 



Sp. 11-. Kirbii. NIgro-fi/xca, suhtilissiiric punctulata, dcnsihs pubescens, aiilcunis 

 jCfiihufrjiic riijis) thorace vordato /rifhvcola/o, (Long. cor[). lA Hn.) 



