438 APPENDIX. 



Page 391. Sp. 9 a. -f-HYDROPORUS marmoratus. Bakewell MS. — Suhdepressus 

 niger; elytris fusco-piceis basi niringue Jtiaculis ohliguis i testaceis, marginibus 

 iesiaceis Jusco lineatis, apicibus macula rolundata testacea ; pedibusj'e?-ru- 

 gineis. (Long. corp. 1^: Hn.) 



Slightly depressed^ black ; elytra pitchy-brown, with four oblique testaceous 

 spots on each side at the base, the margins also testaceous, with fuscous 

 lines ; the apex with a rounded testaceous spot ; legs ferruginous. 



"^ Taken near Nottingham." — R, Bakewell, Esq. 



Page 396. tHELOPHORus alternans. Bakewell MS. — Fusco-ferrugineus, 

 elytris punctato-striatis, interstitiis alternis basi elevatis, antennis palpis 

 tarsisque piceis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 



Dull fusco-ferruginous ; head with the usual fovese ; eyes black ; thorax 

 convex-punctate, with five irregular sulci; the outer one rather obsolete 

 anteriorly; elytra of a griseo-testaceous, with dusky spots, convex, a 

 little elevated posteriorly, with the alternate interstices elevated at the 

 base; body beneath black ; antennse and palpi dark pitchy; legs ferrugi- 

 nous ; tarsi pitchy. 



" Meadows near Nottingham, May 1834."— i2. Bakewell, Esq. 



Genus ANISOCERA,* Howitt MS. (I believe this name is elsewhere em- 

 ployed.) 



Oblong-ovate, rather depressed; antennae eleven-jointed, two basal joints 

 large and flattened, first oblong, second triangular, in the male oblong, 

 ovate in the female ; six following ones small, nearly equal in length, the 

 remainder forming a three-jointed club ; palpi three-jointed, terminal one 

 longest ; head subtrigonate, inserted to the eyes, which are rather large ; 

 thorax transverse-quadrate, with the lateral margins rounded ; scutellum 

 small, the apex rounded; elytra truncate, exposing the last two segments 

 of the abdomen, which abruptly descends ; femora broad, tibiae compressed, 

 elongate triangular, spined on the outer edge and apex ; tarsi four-jointed. 



fSp. 1. Ani. Spireae. Howitt MS.—Depressa, sublata, testacea, crehre punctata, 



oculis pectoreque nigris. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 

 Depressed, rather broad, testaceous ; thickly and deeply punctate ; eyes and 



breast black ; female with a broad smooth line down the centre of the 



thorax. 

 " Taken by Dr. Howitt on the flowers of the Spiraea Ulmata, Oxton Bog."— 



R. Bakewell, Esq. 



Page 14. Sp. 6. IDiaperis unistriata. Howitt? MS.—Oblongo-ovata convexa, 

 mtida punctata, fusco-picea, subtus nigro-picea ; capite antennarum basi pedi- 

 busque rufis, elytris punctatis stria unica suturali ijnpressis. (Long. corp. 

 2i lin.) 



Oblong ovate, convex shining, and punctured; pitchy-brown above, blackish- 



aviffoQ dispar, Ktpag cornu. 



