148 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Inhabits the metropolitan district, not common. 



Sp. 39. pyginseum. Overturn, nigrum, elytris obsolete striatis, castanets bast 



saturatioribus, femoribus piceis, tibiis tarsisque nigris. (Long. corp. \ lin.) 

 Sp. pyginaeum. Illiger. — Ce. pygmaeum. Steph. Catal. p. 64. No. 665. 



Minute : ovate ; black, shining : head and thorax immaculate, punctulated : 

 elytra thickly punctured; rather obsoletely striated, deep castaneous, with 

 the base darker : the femora pitchy ; the tibiae and tarsi rufous. 



The pitchy femora, and more deeply coloured elytra, distinguish this from Ce 

 ery thropum ; which may however be only an immature state of the present 

 insect. 



Far from uncommon in the neighbourhood of London : also 

 found in Norfolk. 



Sp. 40. erythropum. Ovatum, nigrum, elytris obsolete striatis, piceo-castaneis 



apice rufo, pedibus omninb rtifis. (Long. corp. \ lin.) 

 Sp. erythropum. Kirhy MSS. — Ce. erythropum. Steph. Catal. p. 64. No. 666. 



Closely allied to the last ; very minute : ovate, black ; head and thorax pitchy- 

 black, immaculate, finely punctured: elytra pitchy-chestnut, with the apex 

 rufous ; the surface finely punctured and faintly striated ; the legs entirely 

 rufous. 



The totally rufous legs and paler colour serve to distinguish this from the 

 foregoing. 



Taken in Norfolk, Suffolk, and near London. 



Sp. 41. lugubre. Ovatum, nigrum, elytris punctato-striatis, inter stitiis sub- 

 lazvibus, apice pedibusque rufo-piceis. (Long. corp. ^ — ^ lin.) 



Sp. lugubre. Fabricius.—Ce. lugubre. Steph. Catal. p. 64. No. 66. 



Very minute : ovate, black ; head immaculate : thorax with the lateral margins 

 obsoletely piceous: elytra shining pitchy-black, the apex more or less ru- 

 fescent ; convex, punctate-striated, the interstices nearly smooth : legs, palpi, 

 and antennae dull pitchy-red. 



Closely allied to the foregoing, but smaller, and differs in having the legs of 

 a darker hue, and the punctures on the elytra fainter, with the striae more 

 distinct. It must not be confounded with theDermestes lugubris of Marsham, 

 which is many times larger. 



Inhabits the same counties as the last. 



Sp. 42. minutum. Ovatum, nigrum, elytris tenue punctato-striatis, apice Icevibus 



piceis, inter stitiis sublcevibus, pedibus concoloribus. (Long. corp. ^ — § lin.) 

 Sp. minutum. Fabricius. — Ce. minutum. Steph. Catal. p. 64. No. 668. 



Ovate, black; head and thorax immaculate: elytra faintly punctate-striated, 

 the apex smooth and pitchy, the interstices nearly smooth : legs pitchy or 

 deep black ; sometimes rufescent. 



Rather larger than the last, and the legs generally concolorous with the body : — 



