dyticid;e. — HYGROTUS. 47 



middle; within the margin, on each side, a bent, impressed fovea, and, to- 

 wards the middle, an obsolete transverse one, in which are two oblong fuscous 

 spots : elytra moderately convex, pale shining testaceous, the suture narrowly 

 brown, each elytron with about five more or less confluent longitudinal lines on 

 the disc, the two exterior shorter, and interrupted in the middle by a large 

 pale spot : body pitchy-ferruginous, and obsoletely punctated beneath : legs 

 elongate, ferruginous, with the base of the femora obscure. 

 Very similar to the preceding, but the markings on the elytra different, the 

 colour more ferruginous, &c. 



" In the river Plym, near Plymouth." — Dr. Leach. " Netley, 

 Salop, and Aldborough, Suffolk."— Rev. F. W. Hope. 



f Sp. 3. decoratus. Ferrugineus, elytris profundi? punctatisfusco-brunneis, macula 

 didymd anticd, lunuldque posteriori pallidis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 



Hyp. decoratus. Gyllenhal.— Hyg. decoratus. Steph. Catal. p. M* No. 431. 



Somewhat resembling Hy. pictus : colour rufo-ferruginous ; head large, glossy, 

 nearly smooth; eyes black: thorax shining, thickly and closely punctate: 

 elytra large, ovate, smooth, shining, pitchy-brown, with several deeply-im- 

 pressed, large, irregularly-scattered dots, and some minute ones between, 

 with a large double pale spot at the base of each elytron, and a transverse lunule 

 of the same colour a little beyond the middle, following the outline of the 

 thorax, and connected with the exterior pale margin : body shining, reddish- 

 brown beneath : legs entirely pale testaceous : antennae ferruginous, with the 

 tips dusky. 



This insect, which is the Hy. cuspidatus of Kunze, has been 

 seldom found in England: there is one specimen in the British 

 Museum, and the Rev. F. W. Hope has taken it at Netley. 



Sp. 4. confluens. Niger, capite thoraceque ferrugineis, elytris pallidis, lineis 



quatuor abbreviatis nigris. (Long. corp. 1^ — if lin.) 

 Dy. confluens. Fabricius. Hyg. confluens. — Steph. Catal. p. 44. No. 432. 



Rather depressed: head finely punctulated, ferruginous, with the crown and 

 region of the eyes dusky : thorax thickly punctulated, pale-ferruginous, im- 

 maculate : elytra pale griseous, punctated, with a single regularly punctate 

 stria on each, near the suture, the latter black ; the disc posteriorly with four 

 or five parallel black lines, which are frequently united behind ; the sutural 

 one and the third abbreviated anteriorly : body glossy-black beneath, deeply 

 punctate : legs pale ferruginous. 



A very common species throughout the metropolitan district: 

 also found in Norfolk, and in Whittlesea Mere. " Wandsworth- 

 common and Copenhagen-fields." — Mr. Ingpen. 



Sp. 5. collaris. Ferrugineus, elytrorum basi, sutura lineisque distinctis in- 



terruptis nigris. (Long. corp. 1^ — 1£ lin.) 

 Dy. collaris. Panzer.— Hyg. collaris. Steph. Catal p. 44. No. 433. 



