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I slightly convex and faintly punctulated, each with a deep round brown spot 



near the suture towards the apex : body deep pitchy-black beneath : legs black : 



antennae and palpi pale testaceous. 

 The two distinct spots on the elytra and concolorous lateral margin of the 



thorax sufficiently distinguish this from Ce. quisquilium; as the former 



character does from Ce. ustulatum. 



Taken near London. 



Sp. 58. quisquilium. Oblongo-ovatum, nigrum, nitidum, thoracis laterihus 

 elytris striatis pedibusque pallidis : foemina elytris macula communi cor- 

 datd nigra. (Long. corp. f — 1^ lin.) 



Scar, quisquilius. Linne. — Ce. quisquilium. Steph. Catal. p. 65. No. 684. 



Oblong-ovate: head convex, punctulated, black, immaculate: thorax thickly 

 punctate, black, with the lateral margins very narrowly pale in the male, 

 and broadly so in the female : elytra distinctly, but rather faintly, punctate- 

 striated, the interstices thickly but finely punctulated, pale luteous, immaculate 

 in the male, and with a large common subcordate patch on the suture a little 

 beyond the middle in the female: body pitchy-black beneath: legs pale 

 ferruginous. The male is also much smaller and considerably narrower. 



Linnaeus in his latest work places the sexes of this insect in different genera ! — 

 Upon this point see observations in the introduction to my Catalogue. 



Extremely abundant in the spring throughout the metropolitan 

 district ; flying abroad in roads, paths, and meadows, towards after- 

 noon every sunny day. 



Sp. 59. flavum. Oblongo-ovatum, atrum, glabrum, thoracis lateribus elytrisque 



pedibus luteis. (Long. corp. 1^ lin.) 

 De. flavus. Marsham — Ce. flavum. Steph. Catal. p. 65. No. 685. 



Oblong-ovate, glossy ; head black, immaculate : thorax black, very shining, the 

 lateral margins broadly luteous : elytra punctate-striated, pale spotless luteous : 

 legs, antennae, and palpi pale-testaceous. 



As large as the female of Ce. quisquilium, but without the sutural black patch, 

 and with the lateral margins of the thorax broadly luteous. It is not unlikely 

 to prove a variety of the female of the foregoing insect, without the patch. 



Found near London, flying in May. 



Sp. 60 . scutellare. Brevz-ovatum, subnitidum, capite thoraceque nigris, elytris 

 testaceis, macula baseos communi elongato-triangulari nigra. (Long. corp. § 

 lin.) 



Ce. scutellare mihi. — Steph. Catal. p. 65. No. 686. 



Minute: short, ovate, slightly glossy: head and thorax black, immaculate: 

 elytra pale-testaceous, with an elongate-triangular black spot at the base on 

 the suture common to both elytra ; the latter punctate-striated; the legs, palpi, 

 and antennae pale luteous, the club of the latter dusky. 



