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1 138 bipustulatus Fab. E. ii. 561. — Ste. M. iii. 101. — Cur. xiii. pi. 579. — 

 Black, or pitchy-black, shining, glabrous : thorax transverse, a little nar- 

 rowed behind, punctate ; elytra punctate-striate, with a bright rusty spot 

 near the apex, and sometimes a 2d at the base ; legs and antennae rusty, 

 club of the latter palest. (L. 1^-1 \ 1.) Under bark; roots of grass, &c. ; 

 Battersea Fields ; Kensington Gardens ; Scotland : 1 2-6. 



Fam. 23. CUCUJIDJE Stephens. 



cc. Trogosita Ant. short, gradually increasing in size to the tips, the 4 ter- 

 minal joints being largest, and compressed: palpi filiform, apical; joint 

 ovate, truncate : maxillce with a single slender lobe : labium entire ; some- 

 what 4-drate : body oblong-ovate : elytra slightly remote from thorax : 

 tarsi 5-jointed. 



cci. Cucujus Ant. short, or moderate; moniliform, or clavate ; basal joint 

 short : palpi with the terminal joints slightly thickened : maxillce with a 

 small external process : labium bifid : body oblong, or elongate, very flat : 

 tarsi obscurely 5-jointed ; heteromerous in $ . 



ccii. Uleiota Ant. as long as the body, filiform, basal joint longer than the 

 head, 2d joint bent, remainder elongate : palpi filiform : maxillce. with an 

 acute hook within: mand. in the $ with a long, curved horn-like process: 

 labium slightly notched : body very flat : tarsi obscurely 5-jointed, the 

 4th joint very minute. 



200 Trogosita Fabricius. 



1139 mauritanica L. ii. 674. — Ste. M. iv. 221. — Tr. caraboides Pz. F. 

 iii. f. 4. — Above black, shining ; beneath pitchy-black, punctured : elytra 

 faintly punctate-striate; legs and antennas pitchy-red. (L. 3^-5 1.) Under 

 bark of pines ; Coombe Wood ; Houses, at Hertford ; Cambridge ; London : 

 5-6. 



201 Cucujus Fabricius. 



(1140f depressus Fab. E. ii. 93. — Roem. G. pi. 34. f. 28. — Ste. M. iv. 

 222. note. — Black, rather shining ; head, disc of thorax, and the elytra 

 red ; lateral margins of thorax denticulated, the disc with 2 grooves. 

 (L. 5 1.) Improperly introduced as British.) 



§ B. Biophl^eus De Jean. 



1141 dermestoides Fab. E. ii. 94. — Pz. F. iii. f. 13 Ste. M. iv. 222. — 



Rusty-brown ; punctured : thorax with 4 fovea?, placed tetragonally, the 

 sides 4-dentate ; elytra testaceous, flat; legs pale testaceous-red. (L. 

 1^-2^1.) Under bark of oaks ; near London ; at Hertford, and in New 

 Forest : 5-6. 



§ C. L^emophljeus De Jean. 



1142 piceus Oliv. iv. pi. 1. f. 5? — Ste. M. iv. 223. — Chestnut- red, 

 shining, immaculate ; finely punctured : thorax with the base of the 

 lateral margins slightly denticulated ; elytra faintly striated. (L. 1| 1.) 

 Under bark of elm ; Wilts : 6. 



1143 Spartii Cur. xi. pi. 510. — Ste. M. v. 421. — Deep pitchy-brown, 

 sometimes of a chestnut hue, minutely punctured ; antenna?, mouth, and 

 legs paler : thorax obovate-truncate ; elytra with 4 slightly raised lines, 

 interstices with faint punctured lines. (L. 1-1^1.) Under bark of 

 broom ; Coombe Wood : 4-5. 



1144 ferrugineus Meyerle. — Ste. M. iv. 223. — Testaceous- red, shining, 



