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elongate, sides nearly straight, disc punctured in front; elytra fuscous, with 

 a greenish tinge, tip slightly acute ; clothed with an ashy pile, faintly 

 striated, interstices slightly granulated ; legs dull testaceous ; tibiae pale ; 

 basal joint of antennae pitchy. (L. 3-3^ 1.) Lanes near Birch and Darenth 

 Woods ; Cramond : 6. 



286 Ctenonychus Stephens. 



1441 hirsutus Ste. M. Hi. 273. — Brown-black ; densely clothed with long- 

 ish yellowish-ash-coloured hairs, especially on the head and thorax ; elytra 

 elongate, striated; legs pitchy; antenna? testaceous. (L. 5 1.) Bris- 

 tol: 6. 



287 Athous Eschscholtz. 



1442 rhombeus Oliv. E. ii. 31. pi. 2. f. 16. ? — El. pubescens Marsham.-*- 

 Ste. M. iii. 274. — Pale testaceous-red ; clothed with an ashy pile, the 

 pubescence appearing abraded on the elytra obliquely, and forming an 

 obscure V; eyes and legs black ; antennae slightly serrated. (L. 8-9^ 1.) 

 Decayed trees : Lea Wood, and in the New Forest, near Lyndhurst : 6. 



1443 niger L. ii. 656. — Pz. F. ci. f. 16. — Ste. M. iii. 274. — Black, 

 shining ; clothed with fuscous down : elytra deeply punctate-striate at 

 the base, obsoletely at the tip, interstices finely punctured ; tarsi dull 

 pitchy. (L. 4f6L) 



Var. El. nigrinus Marsh, i. 389 Ste. M. iii. 275. — Slightly shining, 



and clothed with an ashy pile; stria? on the elytra very obsoletely punctate. 

 Hedges and wood-sides : London district ; Bottisham ; Swansea ; Edin- 

 burgh : 5-6. 



1444 haemorrhoidalis Fab. E. ii. 235. — Ste. M. iii. 275. — El. sputator 

 Don. iii. pi. 96. f. 4. — Linear-elongate ; dusky-black ; pubescent : thorax 

 linear, the hinder angles short, slightly reddish ; elytra faintly punctate- 

 striate, brownish ; body beneath fuscous, with the margins of the abdo- 

 minal segments and the entire terminal one red ; legs dull-red, ante- 

 rior thighs pitchy. (L. 6-8 1.) Abundant in hedges, &c, everywhere : 

 4-7, *. 



1445 elongatus Marsh, i. 385. — Ste. M. iii. 276. — Elongate, narrowed 

 behind ; dull chestnut : thorax with hinder angles elongate, acute ; elytra 

 flattish, striated ; body red chestnut beneath ; legs reddish ; eyes black. 

 (L. 6 1.) Near Southgate? 



1446 subfuscus Gyll. ii. 411. — Ste. M. iii. 276. — Linear-elongate; dusky- 

 black ; pubescent : head reddish : thorax with its angles, and generally 

 the entire margins, testaceous-red; elytra pale testaceous, faintly punc- 

 tate-striate, apex obtuse ; sides and tip of abdomen, legs, and antenna; 

 testaceous- red. (L. 4-5 1.) Grassy places in New Forest : 6-7. 



1447 vittatus Fab. E. ii. 231. — Bon. xv. pi. 518. f. 2. — Ste. M. iii. 276. 

 — Elongate ; pitchy- fuscous ; pubescent : thorax with the anterior and 

 lateral margins and the angles testaceous-red ; elytra pale testaceous, with 

 the suture and sides more or less broadly fuscous -black, leaving a pale 

 discoidal stripe ; sides and tip of the abdomen reddish ; legs and basal 

 joints of the antennae pale testaceous: elytra sometimes entirely blackish. 

 ( L. 4-5 1. ) Decayed trees in New Forest, and near Bristol ; Swansea : 

 5-6. 



1448 angularis Ste. M. iii. 277. — Oblong; pitchy-brown; pubescent: 

 thorax whitish, slightly convex, hinder angles very short, red ; elytra fus- 

 cous, with a griseous pile, punctate-striate, interstices convex ; legs and 

 antennae red, 2d and 3d joints of the latter longish and slender. (L. 5 1.) 

 Devonshire: 6. 



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