HELOPHORIDiE. — HELOPHORUS. 113 



striated, the interstices narrow, and a little elevated: body dusky black 

 beneath ; antennae, legs, and palpi pale rufescent. 



Taken near London, and in Suffolk, apparently not common. 



Sp. 6. tuberculatus. Niger obscurus, thorace obsolete sulcato, elytris punctato- 

 striatis, interstitiis alternis tuberculis oblongis elevatis. (Long. corp. 1^ — 1^ 

 lin.) 



El. tuberculatus. Gyllenhal. — He. tuberculatus. Steph. Catal. p. 57. JVo. 573. 



Dull black: head punctulated: thorax sub-convex, the margins flat, broadest 

 anteriorly, the sides nearly straight, oblique, the disc thickly punctate, with 

 five rather obsolete sulci : elytra black, punctate-striated, the three alternate 

 dorsal interstices with several oblong shining elevated tubercles: body and 

 legs black : palpi and antenna? pitchy-brown. 



The elytra sometimes pitchy-brown, or dusky. 



The only specimens I have seen of this species were taken in 

 the spring near " Southend. 1 ' — Rev. F. W. Hope. 



B. Elytra with elevated lines. 



Sp. 7. fennicus. Fusco-ferrugineus, elytris griseis punctato-striatis, interstitiis 



alternis carinato-elevatis l&vibus. (Long. corp. 2^— 2f lin.) 

 El. fennicus. Paykul. — He. fennicus. Steph. Catal. p. 57. No. 574. 



Dusky-ferruginous: head with the forehead obsoletely impressed: thorax 

 broad, rather convex, broadest anteriorly, the lateral margins sinuated, the 

 disc rugose-punctated with five sulci, the central one straight, the rest more or 

 less flexuous : elytra somewhat convex, griseous, punctate-striated, the alter- 

 nate interstices elevated, smooth ; a little beyond the middle are some oblong 

 elevated dusky or black spots on the carinas ; and near the scutellum is an 

 abbreviated punctate striola : body beneath pitchy-brown ; the abdomen pale 

 ferruginous ; legs, palpi, and antennae pale testaceous ; the tip of the latter 

 rather obscure. 



Not common ; taken occasionally in damp banks and hedges in 

 Battersea-fields ; also near Hertford, at Dover, and in Norfolk. 

 " Ealing, Middlesex, and Netley."— #00. F. W. Hope. " Leith 

 Hill."— Mr. Waterhouse. 



Sp. 8. nubilus. Ovatus, griseo-testaceus, elytris punctato-striatis, nigro-nebu- 

 losisy interstitiis alternis elevatis, crenulatis. (Long. corp. if — 2. lin.) 



El. nubilus. Olivier.— Re. nubilus. Steph. Catal. p. 57. No. 575. 



Griseous or testaceous-brown: head punctate; forehead with an impression: 

 thorax short, convex, with the sides depressed, broadest in front, and bi- 

 sinuated; above with the disc punctate, with five sulci: elytra moderately 

 convex, griseous, with scattered brown clouds, punctate-striated, the alter- 

 nate interstices elevated, and the carinulae obsoletely crenulated : body fus- 

 cous : legs testaceous : antennae and palpi pale, with the apex dusky. 



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