244 [April, 
raised Y. Elytra flattened, greatly depressed about the region of 
tlie claval suture : Gorium — the anterior margin, outside the first 
nerve, beyond the first third, considerably widened and deflected ; 
nerves strong : Membrane (in all the extant examples) abbreviated, 
not covering the abdomen. Legs slender ; thighs — 1st pair only J 
moderately incrassated, beneath, in the $ , anteriorly and out- 
wardly with two very small, acute spines ; in the ^ these are 
almost obsolete ; tihics with fine, short, projecting, spinose hairs : 
1st pair straight, the hairs finer and shorter, and on the under-side 
only ; tarsi long, slender; the 1st joint on the 1st pair of legs as 
long, on the 2nd pair longer, on the 3rd pair much longer, than 
the 2nd and 3rd joints together. 
This genus mostly resembles Drymus, Fieb., from which it differs 
in the antennae being longer and more slender, the 1st joint much 
longer and the others difiering in their proportions, in the different 
form of the pronotum, in the spines on the thighs of the ? only, in the 
fore-tibije being straight and furnished with hairs beneath, <fec. 
Species 1. — Lampeonotus Shaepi, Doug. ^ Scott (pi. 2, fig. 1). 
Black, shining ; pronotum anteriorly polished, sides delicately 
ciliate ; elytra piceous, corium black inwardly and posteriorly ; legs 
dark testaceous. 
Head — with fine irregular punctures. Antennae clothed with very fine projecting 
pubescence ; 1st joint piceous, 2nd and 3rd black, 4th piceous, towards the 
apex pale testaceous. Rostrum piceous. 
Thoraw — Pronotum anteriorly glossy, unpunctured (except a row of punctures on 
the anterior margin and sides) ; posterior portion deeply, roughly, and irregu- 
larly punctured ; sides with delicate pale cilia ; side margins, posterior margin, 
and the callus at the hinder angles smooth, unpunctured, piceous. Scutellum 
deeply punctured, more roughly at the sides, the Y impunctate. Elytra piceous; 
clavus with three rows of deep punctures ; corium — inwardly a black shade 
gradually widened posteriorly, and extending more or less along the posterior 
margin to the apex ; nerves with black punctures along their sides, the 1st 
exterior nerve with a row on the outside only ; disc more finely and irregularly 
punctured ; membrane (abbreviated) pitchy -black. Legs pitchy-testaceous, 
hairs black. 
Abdomen black, shining, with scarcely perceptible yellowish pubescence. 
Length 2 — 2| lines. 
Dr. Sharp, the well-known coleopterist, to whom we have dedicated 
the species, found one ^ and two ? examples, last autumn, on the 
shore of Dabton Loch, near Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, and kindly pre- 
sented them to us. 
