48 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Ferruginous : head finely punctulated, with a large impressed spot on each side 

 between the eyes : thorax with its hinder margin dusky : elytra pale ferru- 

 ginous, with the base and suture black ; parallel with the latter is a longi- 

 tudinal line, which is generally interrupted beyond the middle, and does not 

 reach to the base : from the shoulder is a second, bent outward obliquely, and 

 behind this is a short, duplex, irregular one, which is sometimes slightly 

 hojked: body beneath totally pale ferruginous: legs testaceous. 



Var. /3. With the lines on the elytra slightly confluent towards the apex. 



Not so abundant as the last, though frequently met with in 

 ditches and ponds round London: also in South Wales and 

 Devonshire. " Wandsworth-common and Copenhagen-fields." — 

 Mr. Ingpen. 



Sp. 6. affinis. Saturate ferrugineus, elytrorum disco nigro lineis obsoletis in- 



terruptis margineque ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 Hyg. affinis mihi. Steph. Catal. p. 44. No. 434. 



Deep ferruginous : head as in the last, with the vertex slightly fuscous : thorax 

 with the hinder margin black : elytra thickly punctulated, black, with several 

 obsolete interrupted lines, and the outer margin ferruginous : body beneath 

 ferruginous : legs pale testaceous. 



Found with the preceding, of which it may prove a variety, differing chiefly in 

 having the elytra nearly entirely black, and more punctulated than in the last : 

 it is also somewhat larger. 



Taken near London. 



Sp. 7. reticulatus. Ferrugineus, thorace margine postico in medio nigricante, 



elytrorum disco nigro lineis interruptis ferrugineis. (Long. corp. l| lin.) 

 Dy. reticulatus. Fabricius. Hyg. reticulatus. Steph. Catal. p. 44. No, 435. 



Ferruginous : head as in the last : thorax finely punctulated, pale ferruginous, 

 the hinder margin dusky in the middle : elytra covered with large irregular 

 impressions, and many very minute ones between ; the disc black, with the 

 lateral margin, an angulated spot near the base, a line near the suture, and 

 several interrupted ones on the disc pale ferruginous : body pale ferruginous 

 beneath : legs testaceous. 



This and the two preceding species greatly resemble each other, and all are by 

 Gyllenhal presumed to be varieties of Hy. reticulatus of Fabricius ; but I am 

 induced to consider them different, until their identity shall be more satis- 

 factorily proved. 



Found near London : South Wales, and in Devonshire. 



Sp. 8. inaequalis. Ferrugineus profundi punctatus, thorace antice posticeque 

 nigris, elytris nigris, lateribus sinuatim ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 1^ lin.) 



Dy. inaequalis. Fabricius. — Hyg. inaequalis. Steph. Catal. p. 44. No. 436. 



Ferruginous, deeply punctate : head faintly punctate, with a deep impression 

 on each side of the forehead ; thorax with the anterior and posterior margins 



