APPENDIX. 427 



Brown-black, slightly pubescent; elytra testaceous-brown, immaculate, not 

 punctured ; thorax with two rather deep longitudinal foves at the base, 

 towards the hinder angle; antennae and legs red-brown. 



I have seen one example only of this species, which was found in the north of 

 England, and is in my collection. 



Page 47. Sp. 1. Mordella abdominalis. Curtis, v. xi. pi. 483. — Occurs in 

 the New Forest. 



Page 51. Genus 457 a. RIPIDIUS? Thunberg. 



Palpi with the terminal joint elongate, cylindric, subtruncate. Antennce short, 

 stout, the two basal joints most robust, orange shaped, third with a robust 

 process on one side as long as the antennae, fourth and remainder each pro- 

 ducing an elongate flattened ray, gradually decreasing in length, so as to 

 form (taken together) a truncate cone; head exserted; ei/es extremely large, 

 occupying above five-sixths of the head, and united above (as in many 

 Diptera) ; thorax transverse, rugosej, rounded in front, the base wider, with 

 the angles acute ; elytra very short, above one-fifth the length of the 

 abdomen, dilated externally at the base, attenuated at the apex ; abdomen 

 slightly attenuated towards the apex, the last obtuse ; wings ample ; legs 

 rather slender, anterior approximating, intermediate rather distinct, with 

 very long coxae; femora all slightly thickened in the middle; tibie simple, 

 subcylindric ; tarsi inserted at the apex of the tibia, and broad at the base, 

 so as to appear continuous with the tibia ; also subcylindric, but gradually 

 attenuated to the apex ; claws dilated at the base beneath. 



Page 51. Sp. 1. Rhi. ? anceps. Steph. Nomen. 'id edit. col. H6.—Nigro-pieeus, 

 elytris pallidioribus, pedibusfuscis, geniculis antennisqiie ochreo-albis. (Long. 

 corp. 2 lin.) 



Pitchy-black, slightly glossy ; eyes deep black, granulated ; thorax very 

 rough ; elytra smooth, of a pale pitchy-brown ; legs pale fuscous, with the 

 joints pale at their origin; antennas of a pale whitish-ochre. 



The only example I have seen of this remarkable insect I found several years 

 back in Somerset House, amongst some papers, written at, and received 

 from, Portsmouth : whether truly indigenous is, perhaps, under such 

 circumstances, doubtful. 



Page 80. Sp. 3 a. Scydm^nus hirtus. Sahl. Ins. Fenn. 97. — Gyll. Ins. Suec. 



V. iv. p. 321. — Piceo-niger, nitidus, subhirsutus, thorace globoso, postice 

 foveolis duabus geminatis impresso, antennarum articulis tribus ultimis incras- 



satis. (Long. corp. l\ liii.) 

 Pitchy-black, shining, slightly hirsute ; thorax globose, with two geminated 



foveolae behind, placed transversely ; antennee with the three terminal joints 



thickened. 

 Taken near London. 



Page 83. Sp. 11 a. Sevn. impressus. Gyll. Ins. Suec. v. \v. p. 322. — Scyd. 

 puiicticollis. Steph. Noiiint. '2d edit. col. DO. — Niger nitidus pubesccns, 



2 ) 2 



