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crenate stria? ; breast reddish ; legs pale testaceous ; antenna? dusky, red- 

 dish at base. (L. 3 1. ) Fungi, &c. : London district and S. Wales: 

 5-7. 



2996 apicalis Ste. M.v. 173 Reddish; smooth; glabrous; shining: head 



black ; thorax with disc fuscous ; elytra with 2 crenulated stria?, the outer 

 apex with a black patch ; abdomen red-brown ; breast black ; tip of an- 

 tennas brownish. (L. 2-2^ 1. ) In boleti, &c. : London district : 6. 



2997 angularis Ste. M. v. 173~. — Elongate; testaceous- red, shining; smooth: 

 head pitchy ; elytra pale testaceous-red ; with 2 obscure crenulated stria?, 

 extreme outer apex black ; abdomen with the base of each segment 

 brownish ; legs and base of antenna? pale, tip of latter dusky. ( L. 2 1.) 

 Fungi, &c. : London district ; Devon : 6. 



2998 ochraceus Ste. M. v. 173. — Ochreous-red, smooth; very glossy: head 

 pitchy ; elytra with 2 faint crenulated stria?, the outer apex with a pitchy- 

 black patch ; abdomen very acute, the tip pitchy-black ; legs and antennae 

 pale testaceous. (L. 1| 1.) Fungi, &c. : London district : 6. 



2999 bimaculatus Ste. M. v. 174. — Slender; red-brown; shining; smooth; 

 head pitchy ; elytra pale testaceous, with 2 faintly crenulated obscure 

 striae ; the outer apex with a more or less obsolete fuscous spot ; abdomen 

 and legs pale; antenna? reddish, tip rather pitchy. (L. 1^-1.) Fungi, 

 &c. : London district ; Norfolk ; Bristol : 6. 



3000 pygmaeus Fab. E. ii. — Pz. F. xxvii. f 19 Ste. M. v. 174. — 



Pitchy-black, shining ; margins of the thorax and the elytra testaceous, 

 outer angle of the latter fuscous, disc with 2 faint punctured stria? ; abdo- 

 minal segments broadly edged with testaceous-red ; legs long, pale ; an- 

 tenna? testaceous, the tip brownish. (L. lgl. ) Boleti, &c. : London dis- 

 trict ; Suffolk; Norfolk; Bristol; Devon; S.Wales: 6-9. 



3001 marginalis Ste. M. v. 174. — Pitchy-black; smooth; shining; head 

 black; margins of the thorax testaceous; elytra pale testaceous, with a 

 spot on the outer angle and the lateral margins fuscous ; abdomen pitchy, 

 tip paler, margins of the segments reddish ; legs and antenna? pale, tip of 

 latter dusky. (L. l£ 1.) Fungi, &c. : London district; Plymouth: 

 4-6. 



3002 thoracicus Fab. E. ii. 606. ? — Ste. M. v. 174. — Pitchy-black; shin- 

 ing ; smooth ; head black : thorax red, spotless ; elytra pale testaceous, 

 the tip brown ; abdomen pitchy, edges of the segments pale testaceous ; 

 legs whitish; antenna? reddish, tips black. (L. Ii 1.) Fungi: London 

 district : 6. 



3003 nitidulus Leach. — Ste. M. v. 175. — Narrow; testaceous-red; shining; 

 smooth ; head pitchy, base reddish ; thorax and elytra spotless, the latter 

 palish, and with 2 faintly punctate stria? ; abdomen pitchy-brown, the 

 edges of the segments reddish; tip of antenna? pitchy. (L. ljl.) Boleti: 

 Battersea fields ; Ripley : 6-8. 



3004 brunnipennis Ste. M. v. 175. — Testaceous- red ; shining, smooth; 

 head fuscous; thorax with a faint central fuscous cloud; elytra red-brown, 

 spotless, with 2 very faintly punctured stria?; abdomen brown, with the 

 edges of the segments testaceous ; legs and antenna? pale testaceous, tip of 

 the latter brownish. (L. HI.) Fungi, &c : London district -. 6. 



3005 discoideus Ste. M. v. 175. — Pitchy-black; shining; smooth; head 

 black ; margins of thorax testaceous ; elytra testaceous-red, spotless, with 

 2 faint punctured stria? ; margins of abdominal segments broadly testace- 

 ous ; legs and antenna? pale, tip of the latter pitchy. (L. 1^1.) Boleti, 

 &c. : London district : 6-7. 



3006 biguttatus Kirby. — Ste. M. v. 175 Black; shining; very smooth ; 



glabrous ; thorax with the lateral margins piceous ; elytra with the 



