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O. fuliginosa, Linn.—Short, oval, widely rounded an- 
teriorly and posteriorly, very convex, clothed with short 
hairs ; brown or black, mottled and spotted with darker and 
lighter markings, very variable in colour, but almost always 
witha pale dorsal stripe extending from the front margin of 
the pronotum to the apex of the scutellum, head rounded in 
front, pronotum transverse, its sides rounded, just above 
the posterior angle with a narrow deep emargination, 
scutellum entirely covering the membrane, slightly narrower 
than the base of the pronotum ; connexivum just visible 
beyond the margins of the scutellum. 
L. 6-9 mm. 
Sandy places, sandhills Deal, not rare. Sandhills Burn- 
ham, Norfolk, Curtis ; Sandown, Champion; near Fakenham, 
Dr. Schrimshire, fide U. W. Dale. 
One well marked variety of this species is quite black 
with the dorsal line of the pronotum and two parallel lines 
on the scutellum, one on each side of the dorsal line, which 
is often abbreviated, pale whitish. 
CORIMELANA, White. 
A small semi-globular, glabrous, bronzy genus of which 
only two Huropean species are known. Our British one 
has, so far as I know, only been recorded as occurring in 
moss and dead leaves and by casual sweeping, but Dr. Puton, 
in his “ Synopsis des Hémiptéres Hétéroptéres de France,” 
says it occurs by sweeping in meadows, especially on 
Ranunculaceous plants. 
C. scarabeoides, Lini.—Small, nearly round, dark 
bronzy coloured, shining, glabrous, strongly punctured ; 
antennz piceous ; scutellum not quite covering the corium 
and membrane; legs black, tibia spinose, tarsi piceous. 
L, 3-4 mm. 
Reigate Hill in moss, Deal, Woking, Purley Downs under 
fallen leaves, Gloucester, Mickleham, Sandhills near Burn- 
ham; Headley Lane, Reigate, Margate, Cardiff, Billups ; 
