138 MANDIBULATA. COLEOPTERA. 



Body somewhat depressed ; above pitchy-black or deep black ; thorax with the 

 margins rather paler or castaneous ; elytra of a lurid testaceous, with two 

 brown subquadrate spots varying in magnitude near the suture towards the 

 apex ; legs pitchy-red, with the femora dusky ; palpi dusky. 



Var. /3. With a slight brown cloud at the base of the elytra near the suture ; the 

 suture itself rather dusky. 



It is probable that this is merely an immature state of the foregoing. 



Taken near Barhamin Suffolk by myself, in September 1821. — 

 " South Creak, Norfolk."— Rev. T. Skrimshire. 



Sp. 4. dilatatum. Nigro-piceum, depressiusculum, capite atro, thorace ely- 

 trisque lurido-testaceis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 



Ce. dilatatum. Steph. Catal. p. 62. No. 630. 



Rather depressed: of a pitchy-black; with the head jet-black, immaculate: 

 thorax with the margins dilated, very glossy-smooth livid testaceous ; elytra 

 rather faintly punctate-striated, immaculate livid-testaceous ; legs testaceous- 

 red, with the base of the femora dusky: palpi pitchy-red. 



Whether this be also an immaculate state of Ce. littorale time alone can de- 

 termine. 



Found with the foregoing insects. 



Sp. 5. depressum. Nigro-piceum, depression, thoracis laterihus etytrisque cas- 



taneo-piceis, his apice pallidioribus. (Long. corp. 1 — l\ lin.) 

 Ce. depressum. Steph. Catal. p. 62. No. 631. 



Greatly depressed ; pitchy-black, finely punctured throughout : head immacu- 

 late : thorax very glossy, with the disc pitchy-black, the margins castaneous 

 and dilated : elytra rather faintly punctate-striated, the striae vanishing on 

 the margins, which are of a pitchy-chestnut ; and the apex pale testaceous : 

 legs pitchy-black : antennae and palpi rufescent, the club of the former dusky. 



Taken near Brockenhurst in the New Forest. " Southend, in 

 damp places." — Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 6. aquaticum. Aterrimum, convexum, nitidissimum, elytris obsoletissime 

 striatis, apice tibiisque ferrugineis. (Long. corp. \ — § lin.) 



Sp. aquaticum. Kirby MSS. — Ce. aquaticum. Steph. Catal. p. 62. No. 632. 



Convex ; very deep glossy-black : head and thorax very smooth, shining, im- 

 maculate, black : elytra very obsoletely punctate-striated, the apex very ob- 

 scure ferruginous : legs pitchy-black, with the tibia? ferruginous : palpi and 

 antennae rufescent, the club of the latter dusky. 



Var. 0. With the legs entirely pitchy-red. 



Sometimes taken near London. " Found in water, never in 

 dung." — Rev. W. Kirby. 



Sp. 7. flavipes. Convexum, atrum, elytris substriatis, apice Jlavescentibus, pedi- 

 bus nifis. (Long. corp. f — 1 lin.) 



