ODONTOSCELID.fl. 59 



Tetyua Scaeab.eoides, Fab. S. E. 143, 70 (1803) ; Fall. Mon. Cim. 



42, 3 (1807) ; Hem. Suec. IG, 6 (1829). 

 Odontoscelis — Burm. Handb, ii, 385, i (1835) ; Germ. Zeits. i, 



38, 3 (1839) ; E. Schf. Wanz. v, 34 (1839). 

 Coia.MEL.?JNA — While, Mag. Nat. Hist, iii, 24 (1839); Fieh. 



Europ. Hem. 365 (1861). 

 CoKEOMELAS — Am. et Serv. Hem. CS, i (1843); SaJiIb. Geoc. 



Pen. 17, 1 (184S) ; Flor, Rhyn. Liv. i, 150 



(1S60). 



Black, metallic-shining, thickly punctured above and beneath. 



ILead : Antennce and also the tubercle piceous. Eyes piceous. 

 Ocelli black. Bostrum light brown. 



Thorax. — Elytra; Memhrane whitish. Wings whitish. Tarsi 

 piceous. 



Abdomen with extremely fine punctures. 



Length, 1^ — If lines. 



Scarce. Purley Downs, near Croydon, in spring, under fallen 

 leaves; near Gloucester {W. V. Guise); Mickleham (^. G. Bye) \ 

 on the sand-hills near Burnham {W. Wilson Saunders). 



Genus 2. — Odontoscelis, Lap. 



Elliptic, broad, very convex. 



Head very much deflected, very broad, convex, rounded to the 

 front; Face; side lobes as long as the middle lobe. Antennw 

 inserted half way between the eye and the rostrum in a direct line, 

 1st, 4th, and 5th joints in length and breadth subequal, 2nd shorter, 

 3rd two thirds the length of the 2nd, the 5th fusiform. Eyes small, 

 subreniform. Ocelli small, distant. Rostrum reaching to the 3rd 

 pair of coxae, the base in a deep channel, of which the sides are 

 much produced; 2nd joint longest, 3rd joint rather longer than the 

 4th, but shorter than the 1st. 



Thorax. — Bronotum quadrangular, transverse, convex ; anteriorly 

 wider than the head and eyes, anterior angles obtusely produced ; 

 lateral margins rounded in front, near the hinder angle with 

 a notch ; hinder angles broadly rounded ; posterior margin straight. 

 Seutellum ybtj convex, as long as the abdomen and nearly as wide, 

 leaving only a small portion at the side thereof and of the base of 

 the corium visible. Elytra : the uncovered portion of the corium 

 alone coriaceous, the rest membranous ; Membrane with 5 long 



