12 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



and the following elongated: the thorax is cordate-truncate, with 

 prominent angles ; and, with the body, rather depressed. 



A. Elytra more or less spotted. 

 Sp. 1. femoratus. Subdepressus, viridis, antennarum basi tibiis tarsisque fer- 



rugineis, elytris rufescenti bimaculatis, striis laterum et apicis evanescentibus. 



(Long. corp. %\ — 2j lin.) 

 Be. femoratum. — Sturm. Pe. femoratus. — Steph. Catal. p. 37. No. 360. 



Rather depressed, green ; head smooth, with two ohsolete sulci anteriorly : 

 thorax smooth, with a rather faint longitudinal impression, and a deep one 

 on each side, near the hinder angles: elytra rather greenish-brass, with a 

 large reddish humeral spot, and another at the base on each; punctate- 

 striated, the lateral striae obsolete, and the others not reaching to the tip : 

 body beneath brassy or pitchy-black : thighs black, more or less ferruginous 

 at the base ; tibiae and tarsi generally ferruginous : palpi with the penulti- 

 mate joint deep-black : antennae black, with the first, and frequently the base 

 of the three following joints, rufous. The size of the spots on the elytra, as 

 well as the colour of the upper surface, varies considerably: the femora are 

 sometimes totally ferruginous. 



An elegant and far from uncommon species, abounding, espe- 

 cially, in Battersea-fields. " Netley, Salop." — Rev. F W. Hope. 

 " Plaistow-marshes." — A. Cooper, Esq. 



Sp. 2. concinnus. Subdepressus, oeneo-viridis, antennarum basi pedibusque Jer- 



rugineis, elytris pallidis cruce ceneo-nigro. (Long corp. 2\ — 2| lin.) 

 Ocys concinnus. — Kirby, MSS. Pe. concinnus. — Steph. Catal. p. 37. No. 



Probably a variety of the foregoing : it differs chiefly in its paler hue, and in 

 the integrity of the cruciform mark on the elytra : it is smaller ; of a brassy- 

 green ; the base of the antennae and the legs entirely ferruginous : the elytra 

 pale testaceous, with a blackish-green patch down the suture, transversely 

 crossed near the apex with the same : in some specimens the elytra are nearly 

 pale, with a slight greenish patch near the suture. 



Found in damp situations near London, and in Suffolk. 



Sp. 3. saxatile. Depressus, nigro-virescens, antennis pedibusque obscure J'er- 

 rugineis ; elytris obsolete rufo trimaculatis, striis ad apicem excurrentibus. — : 

 (Long. corp. 2,\ lin.) 



Be. saxatilis. — Gyllenhal. Pe. saxatilis. — Steph. Catal. p. 37. No. 362. 



Differs from the two last, and from the following, which it greatly resembles, in 

 its smaller size, more depressed body, and by the elongation of the striae on 

 the elytra : it is of a rich dark-greenish, sometimes tinged with blue : the 

 head is similar to the last : thorax rather larger, with a more evident dorsal 

 line: elytra with two rather obsolete rufous spots upon each, generally 

 round, and the posterior ones frequently minute ; striated, the striae punctated, 



