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Red-brown or brownish-yellow, feebly or dully glistening, finely hair- 

 ed; the head and the foremost abdominal joints pitch-brown, abdominal tip 

 reddish-yellow; antennal club brownish, their base, maxillary palpi and 

 legs yellow. L. 0.7-0. ^ mm. 



A cosmopolitan species, widely distributed at shipping ports, often 

 numerous in harbours of South and ^est Europe, especially in hips of earth- 

 nut cakes, also on the strand under alluvium (Sanglb.); in Denmark found 

 only in few numbers at Odense (9. 1907. Jorgensen). 



3. 0. atomaria Sr. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Uk. Br. I, 363; Jen. Stdc. Staph. 180; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 348; Muls. et Rey Ere'vip. 1873, 142; Janglb. Kaf. '1. II, 311). 



Very closely allied to pusillima . but most often a little larger, e- 

 specially broader, with somewhat longer elytra and more tapering abdomen; 

 antennal club sharply three-Jointed. 



Black, glistening, finely haired; abdominal tip brownish; antennae, 

 mouth-parts and legs pitch-brown. L. 0.7-1 ram. 



Distributed in Middle lurope and England; under certain fern leaves 



and other plant waste (Fowler); heretofore not with certainty denoted in 



this country. (Page 281) 



4, 0. .^ranaria 3r. 



(Srichs. Kaf. Uk. Br. I, 364; Jen. Spec. Staph. 181; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 349, f.luls. et Rey Brevip, 1873, 105; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 31C.- 

 pentatoma Forst.). 



Short fusiform, with four (f ive)-jointed antennal club, and in combi- 

 nation with the color identified thereby. 



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