38 COLEOPTERA. 



segment crenulated as in inconsj)icua, hence its identification 

 with that species is somewhat doubtful. 



6. OxypoDA UMBRATA, Mann. Brach. 70, 5 ; Erichs. 



Gen. et Spec. Staph. 144, 5 ; Kiaatz, Ins. Deutschl. 

 ii. 168, 10; E. C. Rye, Zool. 8476 (1863). 

 ? Aleochara umhrata, Gyll., Ins. Suec. ii. 4*24, 46. 



Taken by me at Highgate in January last, and deter- 

 mined by the assistance of Mr. Waterhouse ; subsequently 

 taken by Dr. Power. 



It is shorter and much narrower than 0. opaca, and not 

 quite so dull as that insect; black, clothed with fine pu- 

 bescence, the elytra pitchy brown, legs and base of antennsg 

 rufo-testaceous, and having in the abdomen (which is at- 

 tenuate at the apex) the entire terminal segment, the greater 

 part of the penultimate, and the hinder margins of the 

 remaining segments, ferruginous. The antennae are as long 

 as the head and thorax, not so long or incrassate as in O. 

 o;;«c«,and with the terminal joint shorter and more blunted; 

 tlie thorax is convex, rather shorter than its breadth, de- 

 flexed at the sides, especially in front, where it is slightly 

 narrowed, and with all its angles obtuse. 



It appears to be the most finely and closely punctured 

 species of the genus, and has much the appearance of O. hre- 

 vicornis, Steph., but is much larger than that insect. 



7. OxYPODA LENTULA, EHchs. Col. March, i. 349, 13; 



id.. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 150, 20; Redt. Faun. 

 Austr. 665, 10; Ktz. Ins. DeutschL ii. 168, 11; 

 G. R. \Yaterhouse, Proc. Ent. Soc. 4 JNIay, 1863, 

 Zool. 8614 (1863). 

 Tiiis species, determined by Mr. Waterhouse, resembles 



