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testaceous; elytra shining blue-black, irregularly punctured; antenna- 

 testaceous-red, with the club black. (L. lj-2 1. ) Under bark, &c, 

 Coombe Wood; Walthamstow ; Netley ; Norfolk; Jedburgh in Scotland, 

 &c. : 2-6. 

 1077f Ancora Fab. E. ii. 575. — Cur. iii. pi. 123. — Ste. M. iii. 91.— 

 Head and thorax testaceous ; punctured, eyes black ; scutellum testa- 

 ceous ; elytra brown-black, deeply punctured, with a large common lobate 

 pale spot on the disc, and several small ones on the base and on the mar- 

 gins ; legs and antennae testaceous, club fuscous. (L. 1^1.) In moss, &c, 

 Highgate woods ; Colney Hatch ; Southgate ; Henhault Forest: 12-5. 



1078 f picta Ent. M. (Newman) ii. 202. — Ste. M. v. 408. — Black ; head 

 fuscous; thorax with the anterior margin rusty; elytra with 10 rusty 

 spots, placed 1 on the shoulder, 1 near the tip of the outer margin, 2 

 on the disc, and 2 on the suture, common to both. (L. l£ 1,) New- 

 castle: 6?. 



Fam. 21. EROTYLID^E. 



clxxx. Triplax Ant. with an elongate, obtuse, 3-articulate club : palpi un- 

 equal, terminal joint securiform : body elongate-ovate, or oblong. 



clxxxi. Tritoma Ant. with an ovate perfoliated 3-jointed club : palpi max. 

 with the terminal joint compressed, lunate, lab. somewhat clavate : body 

 gibbous. 



clxxxii. Ecanus Ant. with an elongate 3-articulate acute club : body some- 

 what hemispheric. 



180 Triplax Paykull. 



1079 russica L. ii. 570. — Ste. M. iii. 88. — Ips nigripennis Pz. F. xxx. f. 7. — 

 Oblong-ovate ; rusty-red, shining, glabrous : antenna? and eyes black ; scu- 

 tellum and elytra black, the latter faintly punctate-striate ; breast blue- 

 black ; base of thighs dusky. (L. 2^-3 1.) 



Var. Si. castanea Marsh, i. 122. — Ste. M. iii. 89. — Ochreous-yellow ; elytra 

 and antennae pale chestnut. Fungi, &c, Coombe and Darenth woods; 

 Bristol ; Swansea ; Winterborne Stoke ; Bottisham ; Notts. : 5-6. 



1080 aenea Fab. E. ii. 582. — Ste. M. iii. 89.— Cur. xv. pi. 706. —Ob- 

 long-ovate, shining rusty-red ; punctate : eyes black ; antenna? pitchy ; 

 elytra bluish-green, very glossy, punctate-striate; legs reddish. (L. 2 1.) 

 Fungi, &c, Coombe Wood ; Meldon Park, &c. : 5-6. 



1081 bicolor Marsh, i. 122. — Ste. M. iii. 89. pi. xvii. f. 4. — Oblong- 

 ovate ; rusty-red, punctured ; shining : eyes black ; antennae rusty at the 

 base, the tip pitchy-brown ; elytra black, deeply punctate-striate, inter- 

 stices punctate : legs and body beneath red. (L. 2 1.) Under bark, &c , 

 Coombe Wood : 6-7. 



1082 rufipes Fab. E. ii. 582. — Ste. M. iii. 90. pi. xvii. f. 5. — Short, ovate, 

 glossy-black ; punctured : head, thorax, and legs pale red ; antenna? red at 

 the base, the club pitchy: elytra punctate-striate. (L. If 1.) Windsor ; 

 Coombe Wood : 7-8. 



1083 ruficollis De Jean?— Ste. M. iii. 90. pi. xvii. f. 6. — Oblong, black: 

 thorax bright red ; elytra faintly punctate-striate, interstices punctured ; 

 apex of abdomen pitchy ; legs dull red ; antenna? rusty-chestnut. (L. 2+ 1.) 

 Near Windsor : 6. 



181 Tritoma Fabric 



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1084 bipustulatum Fab. E. ii. 571. —Ste. M. ii. 158.— Cur. xi. pi. 498.— 

 Black, shining ; punctate : mouth pitchy ; elytra faintly punctate-striate, 

 interstices punctured, at the outer basal angle a large 4-drate bright red 



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