102 PHILHYDRIDA. — ANISOTOMID^E. 



tinged with chestnut: elytra very convex; wide in front, narrowed behind, 

 the tip obscurely edged with pitchy ; antennae and legs pale testaceous. 

 (L, \ 1.) London; Hertford; Swansea; Cramond, &c. : 4-8. 



801 nigriclavis Ste. M. ii. 168. — Shining, glabrous; black; impunctate: 

 mouth pitchy ; thorax wholly black : elytra deep pitchy-black, with the 

 apex rather paler ; legs testaceous-red ; antenna? pale testaceous, the club 

 dusky. (L. \ § 1.) London and New Forest : 4-6. 



802 oonfinis Ste. M. ii. 169. pi. 15. f. 2. — Glossy black, slightly pubes- 

 cent : mouth testaceous : thorax with the anterior margin narrowly edged 

 with chestnut : elytra glabrous, impunctate, dark pitchy-black, with the 

 tip more or less chestnut ; antenna? and legs chestnut. (L. ^ 1.) 



"Var. ? Ep. Histeroides Westwood. — Ste. M. ii. 169. and v. 402. — Putney; 

 Bristol ; Hertford, &c. : 4-6. 



803 nitidus Ste. M. v. 402. — Pitchy-black ; shining ; elytra darker, im- 

 punctate ; antennas and legs pitchy-red. (L. \ 1.) Near London. 



132 Alexia Stephens. 



804 pilifera Germ. M. (Mull.) iv. 207. — Ste. M. v. 402. — Somewhat 

 globose, oval ; testaceous-red ; densely clothed with a fine erect, long, 

 whitish pile above : elytra punctured ; thorax with a dusky central cloud. 

 (L. | 1.) New Forest: 6. 



805 globosa Stu. D. F. ii. 82. pi. 32. f. A. — Ste. M. ii. 166. and v. 402. — 

 Somewhat orbiculate, slightly convex ; reddish-brown, or dull chestnut ; 

 shining ; impunctate : elytra rather obtuse behind, not striated ; legs pale 

 reddish-yellow ; antenna? the same at the base, dusky at the tip. (L. 1 1.) 

 Near London : 5. 



806 la?vissima Ste. M. v. 402. — Deep black ; extremely glossy and smooth : 

 elytra deeply and somewhat regularly punctate; antennae and legs pitchy ; 

 club of the former black. (L. f 1.) Near London and Bottisham : 5. 



133 Leiodes Latreille. 



807 punctata Stu. D. F. ii. 42. pi. 25. f. A. — Ste, M. ii. 170. — Elon- 

 gate-ovate, testaceous-yellow, shining : head reddish ; thorax with minute 

 remote punctures ; elytra coarsely and thickly punctured throughout, with 

 an obscure stria near the suture ; legs pale yellowish ; antennae reddish- 

 yellow at the base, the 3 terminal joints dusky. (L. 1^ L) Near Lon- 

 don : 4-6. 



808 aciculata Kunzi. — Ste. M. ii. 170. — Short, ovate; pale testaceous: 

 eyes black ; head and thorax pale testaceous-red, impunctate ; elytra some- 

 what chestnut, finely strigose transversely throughout, with a rather deep 

 sutural stria and the merest rudiments of 1 or 2 others on the disc : 

 hinder thighs with a minute tooth towards the apex. (L. § 1.) South 

 Creek, Norfolk. ; and Devonshire? ; Cramond: 4-6. 



809 dentipes Gyll. ii. 567.? — Ste. M. ii. 170. — Globose-ovate; testaceous- 

 red, shining : eyes black; elytra finely punctate striate, interstices faintly 

 strigose transversely ; legs stout ; hinder thighs in £ with a large acute 

 tooth near the tip, and a smaller one about the middle; hinder tibiae slightly 

 bent ; ^ without the teeth and the hinder tibiae straight : antenna? pale 

 testaceous, the 8th joint scarcely smaller than the 7th. (L. ^11.) Bank 

 near Coombe Wood : 4-6. 



810 Gyllenhalli Ste. M. ii. 197. — Le. brunnea. Gyll. ii. 566. — Ste. 

 M. ii. 171. — Globose-ovate, slightly narrowed behind; red-brown: eyes 

 and club of antenna? black; head and thorax impunctate; elytra regularly 

 but finely punctate striate, the interstices faintly strigose transversely ; 



