74 HYDRADKPHAGA. DYTICIDJE. 



Oval; finely punctulate ; head dull red; sides of thorax obscurely ferru- 

 ginous ; elytra with a short waved band near the base, a double spot 

 (sometimes divided) towards the outer margin, beyond the middle, and a 

 minute dot near the apex pale-testaceous ; legs and margins of abdominal 

 segments reddish. (L. 3^1.) Windsor; Larden, Salop; Norfolk; Whit- 

 tlesea Mere in plenty : 4-7. 



572 maculatus L. ii. 666. — Don. xiv. pi. 501. f. 1. — Ste. M. ii. 74. — 

 Oval ; finely punctulated ; above black ; thorax pale yellowish, its anterior 

 and posterior margins black ; elytra with pale longitudinal lines, and spots 

 (more or less united, or sometimes interrupted, or nearly obsolete), and a 

 pale margin; legs reddish. (L. 3^-4 1.) Devonshire; Cherwell, Oxon. ; 

 Buxton ; Bottisham ; Kimpton ; Glanville's Wootton ; near Edinburgh, 

 &c. : 3-9. 



d. Post, tarsi with 4 basal joints ciliated beneath in the g . 



573 vitreus Pk. F. i. 217. — Ste. M. ii. 75. — Dy. didymus Oliv. E. iii. 

 pi. 4. f. 37. — Ovate ; smooth ; black : head reddish in front ; thorax 

 with the extreme sides dull rusty ; elytra brassy, with a double whitish 

 transparent spot near the outer margin, and a smaller one towards the 

 apex ; the disc with 3 regular punctate striae ; legs reddish, the thighs 

 beneath and base of tibiae dusky. (L. 4 1.) London district ; Dartmoor; 

 Bristol ; Swansea ; Kimpton ; Netley, &c. : 4-7. 



574 nebulosus Forst. C. 56. — Ste. M. ii. 72. Dy. 2-punctatus Don. ix. 

 pi. 303. — Ovate, flattish ; above yellowish ; beneath pitchy-black : thorax 

 with 2 round approximating black spots ; elytra irrorated with black, with 

 a line down the suture ; the outer margin and a spot in the middle of the 

 latter clear : tip of abdomen and the legs dull red. (L. 4-4^1.) London 

 district ; Norfolk ; Hants ; Yorkshire ; Devon ; Newcastle ; Edinburgh, 

 &C. : *. 



575 subnebulosus Hope. — Ste. M. ii. 72. — Ovate ; above yellowish ; breast 

 pitchy-black ; abdomen testaceous : thorax spotless, middle of its hinder 

 margin dusky; elytra irrorated with dusky, the outer margin, suture, and spot 

 on the edge, clear; legs testaceous. (L. 4 1.) Aldborough, Suffolk: 5-6. 



57*)' conspersus Marsh, i. 427. — Ste. M. ii. 72. pi. xii. f 4. — Oblong- 

 ovate ; griseous yellow above ; black beneath : crown broadly black, with 

 2 distinct red spots ; thorax spotless ; elytra very obscurely irrorated with 

 dusky ; abdominal segments edged with testaceous ; legs pitchy-rust co- 

 lour ; thighs dusky. (L. 4-4| 1. ) Near London ; in plenty at Southend : 4-6. 



577 vittiger Gijll. iv. 379. — Ste. M. ii. 81. — Oblong-ovate; faintly 

 reticulate-strigose ; brassy-black : elytra with 3 irregular rows of punctures, 

 and a reddish rather oblique, and sometimes obsolete, line towards the 

 middle of the outer edge : legs pitchy-red. (L. 4^ 1.) Pits at Weyhill ; 

 Dartmoor, &c. : 5-9. 



578 striolatus Gyll. i. 508 Ste. M. ii. 77. — Oblong-ovate; flattish; 



finely striated longitudinally, the striae sometimes anastomosing ; black : 

 mouth, labrum and edge of the forehead dull red ; elytra with 3 very 

 irregular rows of punctures ; anterior edge of thorax and margins of the 

 abdominal segments dull red; legs rusty-red, with the thighs pitchy. (L. 

 3|1.) Near London: 5-6. 



579 brunneus Fab. E. i. 266. — Co. ferrugineus Ste. M. ii. 79. — Ovate ; 

 convex ; testaceous-red or ferruginous above, shining ; very smooth, spot- 

 less : elytra rather darker, with the base and outer edge a little paler ; 

 plurae and abdomen black ; 4 anterior legs pitchy-red ; hinder pair pitchy- 

 black ; antennae short, reddish. (L. 4-4^ 1.) Dartmoor, and near 

 Caernarvon : 5-6. 



