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black: elytra glossy black, thickly and deeply punctate, the lateral margin 

 broadly and unequally ferruginous, with an irregular testaceous spot near the 

 base, posteriorly bifid, sometimes united by a pale streak to the margin, the 

 apex sometimes with a narrow black line on the lateral coloured margin: 

 body deep shining ferruginous ; deeply punctulated : legs elongate, pale fer- 

 ruginous. 

 The markings on the elytra very much as above indicated. 



Not uncommon in various parts of the south of England, and in 

 Ireland. " In turf pits in Bottisham and Swaffham-fens." — Rev. 

 L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 9. scitulus. Plate XI. f. 3. Niger, thorace ad marginem utrinque macula 

 ferrugined, elytris maculis strigisque aliquot irregularibus Jlavo-tesiaceis. 

 Long. corp. 1^ — if lin.) 

 Dy. scitulus. Spence MSS. — Hyg. scitulus. Steph. Catal. p. 44. No. 437. 



Black : head deeply but distinctly punctate ; with two larger impressions be- 

 tween the eyes : thorax thickly punctate, the disc rather elevated transversely : 

 elytra thickly and finely punctate, the lateral margin irregularly pale tes- 

 taceous, branching off first obliquely at the base, towards the angle of the 

 suture, where it again turns backward parallel with the suture; secondly, 

 beyond the middle, nearly at right angles, and waved ; thirdly, short and 



. obliquely, near the apex : body opaque, black beneath, thickly punctulate : 

 legs ferruginous ; the posterior pitchy-black. 



I believe this is synonymous with the Hy. lepidus of De Jean ; but it is different 

 from the Hy. lepidus of Schonherr, as may be readily observed by a com- 

 parison of his figure with the one given in this work. 



Common near London. " Ireland, Devonshire, and near Car- 

 lisle." — Dr. Leach. " Wandsworth-common and Copenhagen- 

 fields." — Mr. Ingpen. 



Sp. 10. pictus. Piceo-ferrugineus, elytris pallidis, suturd macula ohlongd disci, 



stridque suhmarginali nigris. (Long corp. £ — 1^ lin.) 

 Dy. pictus. Fabricius. — Hyg. pictus. Steph. Catal. p. 44. No. 438. 



Black, finely punctulated, the elytra with a few minute hairs; head pitchy- 

 ferruginous, with a shallow impression on each side between the eyes : thorax 

 slightly convex, pitchy-black, the lateral margin rufescent, with an abbreviated 

 curved striola on the inner edge : elytra very convex, pale-yellow, with the 

 suture, an oblong discoidal spot, and a stripe on the lateral margin black, 

 leaving a flexuous stripe, dilated at each extremity, of the former hue upon 

 the disc of each: body pitchy-red or ferruginous beneath: legs elongate, 

 pitchy-red : antennas with the base pale rufous, the apex dusky. 



Var. #. Steph. Catal. 1. c. With the suture and a broad common fascia behind 

 black. 



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