92 PHILHYDRIDA. SPHTERIDIID^E. 



scarcely clouded with dusky. London district ; Bottisbam ; Southend ; 

 Norfolk; Suffolk; Scotland, &c. : 0. 



710 Colon Ste. M. ii. 133 Somewhat globose; black; finely punctulated : 



head with 2 minute pale spots ; thorax with the lateral margin pale 

 yellowish ; elytra dusky, or pale brownish, faintly punctate-striate, the disc 

 darkest, with 2 round whitish spots towards the apex, the outer margins 

 and sometimes the base pale; legs pale. (L. l^-l^-l.) Near London; New 

 Forest ; Bottisham : 4-6. 



711 bipustulatus Marsh, i. 406. — Ste. M. ii. 133. — Somewhat globose; 

 glossy black : head with 2 tawny spots ; thorax testaceous, with 3 more or 

 less united dusky spots on the disc, the sides pale yellowish ; elytra testa- 

 ceous, clouded with obscure black lines, with a single sutural stria ; legs 

 red. (L. 1^-1^1.) London district ; Andover; Bottisham; Norfolk: 4-6. 



712 Marshami. Hy. minutus Marsh, i. 406. — Ste. M. ii. 133. — Somewhat 

 ovate ; glossy pitchy-black, faintly punctulated : margins of the thorax and 

 of the elytra pale testaceous, the disc of the latter with a single sutural 

 stria: body beneath and legs pitchy-black. (L. 11-1^1.) 



Var. ? ochraceus Ste. M. ii. 134. — Thorax deeply punctured; elytra pale 

 immaculate ochreous ; body beneath and legs pale griseous. London dis- 

 trict ; Norfolk; Suffolk; Devons. ; Bottisham, &c. : 4-6. 



713 lutescens Ste. M. ii. 134. — Somewhat ovate; pitchy-black ; head 

 black ; thorax with the anterior angles above (rarely the entire margin) 

 pale testaceous ; elytra obscurely punctured, with a faint sutural stria, the 

 outer margins lutescent : body beneath and legs pitchy. (L. 1-1^ 1.) Near 

 London, and in Suffolk: 4-6. 



714 foveolatus Ent. Tra. {Haw.) i. 86. — Ste. M. ii. 134. — Somewhat 

 globose ; glossy-black : head immaculate ; thorax with the sides pale, the 

 disc with several minute foveolets, sometimes united ; elytra pitchy-black, 

 finely punctulated, with a faint sutural stria; legs dull red. (L. ^-1 1.) 

 Hampstead Heath, and London district : 4-6. 



715 seneus Steven. — Ste. M. ii. 135. — Oval, convex ; above densely and 

 deeply punctured, of an obscure greenish-brass, rather glossy ; beneath 

 black : thighs pitchy; tibia?, tarsi, and palpi dull red; antennae pitchy-red. 

 (L. Ijl.) Wimbledon Common : 4. 



716 limbatus Fab. E. i. 97. — Hy. minutus Herbst. vii. pi. 114. f. 8. — 

 Hy. globulus Ste. M. 135. — Somewhat hemispheric; above dusky-black, 

 very finely punctulated : thorax with the lateral margins broadly pale 

 griseous; elytra gibbous, with the lateral margins and the apex more or less 

 pitchy, and a simple sutural stria; legs brownish-red, or pitchy. (L. 1^-1^ 1.) 

 Hampstead Heath ; Wandsworth Common ; Bottisham, &c. : 4-6. 



1 26 Ch^etarthria Waterhouse. 



717 Seminulum Pk. F. i. 1 90, — Herbst. vii. pi. 114, f. 11. —Ste. M. ii. 

 1 35. and v. 401. — Somewhat globose ; black, shining, smooth : thorax with 

 the lateral and hinder margins rounded ; elytra with a faint sutural stria, 

 the apex acute and dull pitchy ; body beneath pitchy ; legs pitchy-red ; 

 tibia? compressed ; ciliated with spines. (L. ^ 1.) Wimbledon Common; 

 in Norfolk and Suffolk : 4-6. 



Fam. 15. SPHiERIDITDiE Leach. 



cxxvii. Cyclonotum Ant. 9-jointed, club slightly imbricated : maxilla with 

 the lobes coriaceous : palpi robust : mention with a central impression : 

 body somewhat hemispheric : scv.tellurn moderate : elytra punctate. 



