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nil each side with a short stria : elytra elliptic, very delicately striated : 

 legs deep Iiiack. 

 Found on the ^V'elsh mountains. 



Page 117. Sp. 2 a. Steropus cognatus. Steph. Komen. 2d edit. col. 8. — Ater 

 nitidus, thorace postice iitrinque profundi fovenlala, elytris subovatis subpunc- 

 tato-striatis, punciisque tribus impressis, tarsis piceis. (Long. corp. 6 lin.) 



Deep glossy black ; thorax orbicular, v%ith a deep fovea on each hinder angle; 

 elytra somewhat orate, deeply striate, the striae faintly punctured^ and the 

 disc with three remote impressions: legs blacky with pitchy tarsi. 



The males of this and 01 the preceding species differ from the others of the 

 genus by having a process on the penultimate or terminal joints of the 

 abdomen beneath. 



Taken on Snowdon. 



Page 117. Genus 45 a. MISCODERA, jE-s-cAi-c/jo/fe. 



Palpi moderate, external maxillary with the terminal joint short, elliptic- 

 truncate ; labial with the terminal joint somewhat fusiform^ the apex 

 slightly truncate : mandihles acute, with a small tooth on the inner edge : 

 /«ZirM/7i transverse, faintly notched in front : mentum deeply emarginate in 

 frontj with an obtuse tooth in the middle, the lateral lobes round. Antennae 

 shortish, the basal joint stout^ second short, third almost as long as the 

 basal, fourth slender and rather short, remainder moniliform, the terminal 

 joint being longest and somewhat acute: head small: thorax somewhat 

 globose: elytra remote, ovate: legs short: tibiae simple. 



The very smooth polished surface of these insects, combined with their globose 

 and tumid thor ix (whence the name Oncoderus, that I applied to the first 

 specimen I received from Mr. Gibson at the time the sheet in which it is 

 named was in the press,) will distinguish them from the other Harpalidse : 

 they appear somewhat allied to Broscus, which they resemble by having 

 the elytra remote. The genus was first characterized by Eschscholtz. 



Page 117. Sp. 1. arctica. Steph. Nomen. '2d edit. col. 8. — Clivina arctica. 

 Paylc. Faun. Svec v. i. S5.~ Nitidissima, suhtus rufo-picea,antennis pedibusque 

 rvjis, elytris dorso punctato-striatis. (Long. corp. 4 — 4g lin.) 



Very glossy and smooth ; above of variable tint, being brassy- greenish- or 

 bluish-black, with the margins of the elytra, &c. sometimes concolorous, at 

 others different, and varying also in punctation ; the elytra with a variable 

 number of punctate striae on the base within, vanishing towards the apex; 

 the space behind the thorax more or less punctate; beneath pitchy-red : 

 antenna and legs red. 



Leiochiton Readii, Curtis, v. viii. pi. 346, forms one of the numerous varieties 

 of this inconstant species. 



Maxuibim.ata, Vol. V., L'Brrr Vv.v.. 1H35. 2 c 



