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Family MELYRIDiE. Mehjridans. 



CXXXV. Genus DASYTES. Payk. 



(331) 1. * Dasytes foveicollis. Pit-necked Dasytes. 



D. (foveicollis) atro-ceeruleus, subhirtus, capite prothoraceque punctalis, hoc antice bifoveato. 



Pit-necked Dasytes, black-blue, somewhat hairy : head and prothorax punctured ; the latter with two anterior impressions. 



Length of the body 2f lines. 



A single specimen taken in the Journey from New York to Cumberland-house. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body somewhat hairy, underneath black and glossy ; above with a blue tint. Head glossy, 

 punctured with largish scattered punctures ; front with two impressions : prothorax nearly square, 

 with the sides a little curved, punctured at the head, with a pair of transverse anterior impressions ; 

 sides and base margined, margin reflexed : elytra less glossy than the rest of the body, minutely, 

 but not conspicuously, punctured. 



This species answers in almost every respect to Major Gyllenhal's description of Dasytes ccurii- 

 leus, but as he does not notice the impressions in the prothorax, which so minute a describer would 

 scarcely have overlooked, I apprehend it as a distinct species. What we have in England under 

 the name of D. cceruleus is the Lagria viridis of Rossi, a fine green insect, first taken I believe 

 on the Sussex coast by Sir W. T. Hooker. It differs from D. cceruleus not only in its colour, but 

 also by having the prothorax much more thickly punctured. 



Family CLERIDJE. Cleridans. 



CXXXVI. Genus NECROBIA. Oliv. 



(332) 1 . Necrobia violacea. Violet-coloured Necrobia. 



Necrobia violacea. Lat. Hist. Nat. ix, 156, t. lxxvii, /. 5 ; Gen. i, 274, 1 ; Crust. Arachn. et Ins. i, 479. Oliv. Ent. iv, 



76, bis. 5, I. Steph. Ulustr. Mandib. iii, 327, 1. 

 Dermestes violaceus. Linn. Fn. Suec. 422; Sijst. Nat. ii, 563, 13. Fab. Syst. Ent. hi, 10; Ent. Syst. i, 230, 16. Panz. 



Fn. Germ, v, t. 6 ; Ent. Germ, i, 98, 18. Ced. Fn. Ingr. 129. Schrank Enum. 26, 45 ; Fn. Boic. i, 516, 595. 

 Clerus Quadra. Marsh. Ent. Brit, i, 323, 4. 



nigro-caeruleus. Geoff. Ins. i, 304, 2. 



Corynetes violaceus. Payk. Fn. Suec. i, 275, 1 . Fab. Syst. Elevth. i, 285, 1 . 



Length of the body 2^- lines. 



Taken abundantly on the Journey. 



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