16 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Be. tibiale. Leach, MSS.—¥e. tibialis. Steph. CataL p. 38. No. 370. 



Deep brassy black, shining, depressed: head bright greenish, with the two 

 usual sulci: thorax green, very glossy and smooth, the dorsal line moderate, 

 at the base on each side a single deep impunctate fovea : elytra dusky-brass, 

 striated, the striae rather obsoletely punctate, with two or three impressed dots 

 on the third from the suture, and all reaching to the apex : body beneath 

 deep brassy-black ; femora the same, with their apex, the coxss, tibiae, and 

 tarsi reddish : antennae with the basal joint reddish, the rest dusky: palpi 

 also dusky. 



This likewise varies in colour; some specimens having the head and thorax 

 light blue, and others nearly black: the elytra are sometimes of the latter 

 colour, at others brownish or virescent. 



Also found in places remote from the metropolis. " Near Swansea, 

 and in the north of England." — Dr. Leach. " Carfin, Lanarkshire." 

 Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 12. Leachii. Depressus, ceneo-niger, antennarum articulo basali inj erne pic eo- 

 rufo, palpis pedibusque nigris; elytris striatis, striis impunctatis, ad apicem 

 excurrentibus. (Long. corp. 2^ lin.) 



Be. Leachii. Spence, MSS. — Pe. Leachii. Steph. Catal. p. 38. No. 371. 



Differs from all the foregoing by the impunctate striae on the elytra, and from 

 the next by its colour, which is blackish-brass, slightly shining : head smooth, 

 with the usual impressions very shallow, and with a violet tinge : thorax 

 smooth, with an abbreviated dorsal line, and a large, deep, impunctate fovea 

 on each side at the base : elytra rather broad, deep greenish-bronze, striated, 

 the striae impunctate, but two or three impressed dots on the disc: body 

 beneath, palpi, and legs, entirely black, the latter with the base of the femora 

 sometimes very obsoletely rufescent. 



Allied to Be. olivaceum of Gyllenhal ; but I presume that the next species is 

 synonymous with his insect. 



This is also found at a distance from the metropolis ; Dr. Leach 

 supplied me with a pair, and I obtained one from the Marshamian 

 collection. — " Loch Lomond. 11 — Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 13. olivaceum. Depressus, virescente-oeneus, antennarum articulo primo 

 femorumque basi brunneo-ferrugineis, elytrorum striis tenuibus impunctatis. 

 (Long. corp. 2^ — 2f lin.) 



Ocys picipes Kir by, MSS.—Ve. picipes. Steph. Catal. p. 38. No. 372. 



Greatly allied to the last, of which it may prove a mere variety : its head is 

 the same in colour and in sculpture ; the palpi are black, and the mandibles 

 rufescent : the thorax is also similar, and the elytra are simply striated with 

 two or more impressed dots on the disc : the body beneath is deep greenish- 

 black and glossy : the legs are of a pitchy-brown, with the thighs paler, or 

 rufescent at the base : the first joint of the antennae is more or less pitchy, and 

 the rest dusky. 



This is probably synonymous with the Be. olivaceum of Gyllenhal. 



