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species are found beneath putrid leaves and wood, or in fungi, and 

 in sand and gravel pits, &c. Owing to their extreme minuteness, 

 and the want of specimens, I have not been able to detail their 

 generic characters so completely as could be wished. 



Sp. 1. Armadillus. Plate xv. f. 5. Gibboso-ovatus, niger nitidus IcEvissimus, 



thoracis marginibus antennis pedibusque pallidis. (Long. corp. ^ lin.) 

 Der. Armadillus. Be Geer.— CI. Armadillus. Steph. Catal. p. 70. No. 762. 



Glossy black, very smooth : head convex, rounded anteriorly, with the lateral 

 margins angulated posteriorly : thorax convex, with the sides rounded, and 

 pale, somewhat pellucid : elytra very convex, above shining black, impunctate, 

 with a few short scattered hairs, the apex sometimes with a ferruginous tinge : 

 body pitchy-black beneath : legs slender, pale : antennae also pale, and slightly 

 pilose. 



Known from the next by wanting an abbreviated sutural stria, and from CI. 

 enshamensis by its colour and form. 



Not common; found in the metropolitan district. " Hackney, 

 in April last." — Mr. G. Waterhouse. 



Sp. 2. coccinelloides. Gibboso-ovatus, ater, nitidus Icevis, thoracis marginibus 

 concoloribus, antennis pedibusque piceo-testaceis, stria suturali abbreviatd. 

 (Long. corp. f lin.) 



Anisotoma coccinelloides. Kirby MSS. — CI. coccinelloides. Steph. Catal. p. 70. 

 No. 763. 



Shining black; head convex, smooth; thorax very convex, the sides margined 

 and concolorous with the disc, which is black and impunctate : elytra deep 

 black, very convex; sparingly punctate, each with an abbreviated stria at the 

 apex near the suture : antenna and legs pitchy- testaceous, the femora palest. 



Much larger than the foregoing, and distinguished by the concolorous margins 

 to the thorax, and the abbreviated sutural stria. 



I possess a single example of this insect, which was kindly given 

 to me by the Rev. W. Kirby, who captured it near Barham. 



Sp. 3. enshamensis. Hufo-testaceis, elytris saturatioribus, capite latissimo, 



maximo, thoracis lateribus attenuatis subacuminatis. (Long. corp. ^ lin.) 

 CI. enshamensis. West wood MSS.— Steph. Catal. p. 70. No. 764. 



Ovate, shining, pubescent: head pale rufo-testaceous, very large and broad, 

 slightly convex, the front rounded, the lateral margins produced into a lobe, 

 in which the eyes are placed : thorax pale rufo-testaceous, slightly convex, 

 the sides attenuated, somewhat acuminated, and pale testaceous : elytra con- 

 vex anteriorly, somewhat depressed towards the apex, deep rufo-testaceous, 

 or slightly piceous, impunctate, very pubescent: legs very slender, pale. 



This extraordinary insect may be known by the immense size of its trilobe 



