160 MANDIBULATA. — COLEOPTERA. 



Oblong-ovate, greenish-brass : head very glossy, smooth ; mouth pitchy : thorax 

 very shining and extremely smooth : elytra as broad as the thorax at the base, 

 slightly attenuated posteriorly, moderately convex, very glossy, with two rather 

 faint stria; towards the suture, which do not reach to the base ; body and 

 thorax beneath deep pitchy-black: legs stout, pitchy-black or brownish: 

 antennae ferruginous at the base, dusky or black at the apex. 



The brilliant greenish-brass colour and bistriated elytra distinguish this species. 



Very abundant in hedges in the neighbourhood of London, 

 especially in the spring : found in the winter, beneath moss, &c. 

 occasionally, and sometimes in the autumn. 



Sp. 3. ovatus. Oblongo-ovatus, nigro-ceneus politus, posterius attenuatus, elytris 

 obsoletissime striatis. (Long. corp. f lin.) 



Der. ovatus. Marsham. — Ph. ovatus. Steph. Catal. p. 67. No. 697. 



Oblong-ovate, deep very shining brassy-black : head very smooth : thorax ob- 

 scurely punctured : elytra as broad as the thorax at the base, the apex greatly 

 attenuated, with two deep striae parallel with the suture, and several faint 

 ones on the rest of the surface, the interstices finely punctured : antenna?, 

 palpi, and legs piceous. 



Differs from the last in being more attenuated behind and smaller, with the 

 elytra faintly striated throughout, and the interstices between the stria? being 

 punctured. 



Not uncommon near London. 



Sp. 4. cognatus. Mneo-niger, nitidus, ovatus, postice hand attenuatus, elytris 



obsoletissime striatis. (Long. corp. f lin.) 

 Ph. cognatus mihi. — Steph. Catal. p. 67. No. 698. 



Ovate, not attenuated posteriorly : glossy shining brassy-black : head and 

 thorax impunctate : elytra faintly punctate-striated, the two stria? nearest the 

 suture deepest, the interstices punctured : legs, antenna?, and palpi black. 



The dissimilar form and deep brassy-black hue distinguish this from the fore- 

 going, of which it is not very unlikely that it may prove to be a variety of the 

 female. 



My specimens were taken near London. 



Sp. 5. corticalis. Oblongo-ovatus, piceo-testaceus, glaberrimus, capite, thorace 

 marginibusque elytrorum saturatioribus, elytris bistriatis. (Long. corp. 

 1-lllin.) 



Ph. corticalis. Illiger.— Steph. Catal. p. 67. No. 699. 



Oblong-ovate, above entirely of a pitchy-testaceous, with the head, thorax, and 

 suture, apex, and lateral margins of the elytra, of a deeper, or pitchy-black, 

 tinge: eyes black: antenna? rufescent : the disc of the elytra is slightly punc- 

 tulated, and near the suture are two abbreviated rather faint stria? ; the body 

 beneath and legs are pale pitchy-testaceous. The colours vary considerably, 

 but all the varieties of the insect may be known by the characters above given, 

 as the other species of the genus are of darker colours. 



