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ferruginous or pitchy black, very faintly striated, the striae obsoletely punc- 

 tate, vanishing before the apex, and the outer ones obliterated : body beneath 

 pale-reddish ferruginous : antennae fulvous : legs and palpi pale testaceous. 



Far from an abundant species : I have taken it at Ripley, Hert- 

 ford, and near London ; and have received it from Norfolk and 

 Swansea. " Lawrence- Waltham, in March, 1828."— Mr. Hanson. 

 " Netley, Salop, not common." — Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 3. tempestivus. Rufo-ferrugineus, elytris obsolete punctato-striatis, plagd 



longitudinali atrd; antennis pedibusque pallidis. (Long. corp. 2<| lin.) 

 Ca. tempestivum. — Panzer ?—Steph. Catal. p. 37. No. 358. 



Rather larger than the last: entirely of a ferruginous-red, with the thorax 

 brightest : head a little dusky, slightly rugose between the eyes, with two 

 moderately deep longitudinal sulci anteriorly: thorax very glossy, with a 

 faint longitudinal channel ; the base with a transverse impressed line near the 

 margin, and with an oblique fovea on each side: elytra subovate, rather 

 glossy, with an undefined, black, longitudinal patch towards the margin, 

 obsoletely punctate-striated, the outer striae nearly obliterated, and all but the 

 central one vanishing before the apex : body beneath pale ferruginous red ; 

 the margins of the abdominal segments dusky: legs pale rufous: antennae 

 and palpi the same. 



I have seen few specimens only of this species, which appears to agree with 

 Panzer's figure of Ca. tempestivus; but the palpi are not sufficiently de- 

 veloped in his figure to decide the point, and Panzer places his insect in the 

 (c Index Entomologicus" amongst the Trechi : at all events, the present insect 

 has always been considered, in this country, as the one just named ; and as it 

 appears not to be otherwise described, I have retained the name in preference 

 to imposing a new one. 



Found occasionally near London, and in Norfolk : also, I believe, 

 in Devonshire. 



Genus LXIX. — Peryphus, Megerle. 



Palpi rather elongate ; external maxillary with the second joint nearly equal in 

 length with the third, very slightly subclavate ; the third more robust, cla- 

 vate, the terminal very short, slender, truncate; labial with the terminal 

 joint rather elongate, slender, acute: labrum transverse, entire: mandibles 

 short, curved, rather acute : mentum anteriorly emarginate, the emargination 

 with an obtuse central lobe. Antenna with the two basal joints naked, the 

 rest pubescent, the third joint longest, the remainder elongated, though 

 shorter than the third : head small, ovate : thorax cordate-truncate, the hinder 

 angles prominent, acute: elytra elongate-ovate: body rather depressed: 

 anterior tarsi of the males with the two basal joints dilated. 



The genus Peryphus embraces the largest species of the family: 

 the antennae have the two basal joints naked, with the third longest. 



