00 COLEOPTERA. 



Taken by Mr. Waterhouse and Mr. Morris Young, both at 

 Paisley. 



59. Thinobius brevipennis, Kiesenw., Stett. Ent. Zeit. 



(1850) -221 ; Ki-aatz, Ins. Deutschl. ii. SSd, 5 ; E. W. 



Janson, Proc. Ent. Soc, 3rd Feb. 1862, Zool. 7912 



(1862). 



Taken by Mr. Janson at Holme Fen, Hunts., in May, 



1859 ; also in some numbers by Mr. G. R. Ci'otch (to whom 



1 am indebted for specimens) in the Fen district. 



60. Omalium Allardi, Fairm. et Bris., Ann. Soc. Ent. 



Fr. (1859), p. 44. 



When on the point of concluding this paper I was in- 

 formed of the occurrence in Britain of this and the following 

 species, which have been returned from the Continent to 

 Mr. Morris Young with the names here given to them re- 

 spectively. 



I have not consequently had time to refer to the original 

 description of the present species, which is however decidedly 

 a distinct one from any of our other British Onialia. 



It is about the size of oxyacanthcB, but in general habit 

 more like a small example of rivulaj^ef w^ith the exception 

 of being narrower; pitchy, with the base of the antennae, 

 maroiu to the abdomen, and a humeral spot testaceous-red j 

 the latter sometimes suffused nearly all over the elytron. 



Its place is next to fos.wla turn in our lists. 



Taken somewhat plentifully by Mr. Morris Young (to 

 whom I am indebted for specimens) at Paisley ; also by 

 Ml". Waterhouse in the same locality, as well as in different 

 parts of the London district (including the British Museum 

 Court Yard), but neither this nor the next species are to be 

 referred to the two queried new species in Wat. Cat. 



