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spines ; arolia as long as the claws and attached to them 
throughout their length. 
There is only one species. 
O. decolor, Fall.—Grey or yellowish-grey, sometimes 
with a brownish tint, clothed with fine short semi-erect 
hairs. Head with a spot at the base more or less con- 
tinued towards the apex, yellowish ; pronotum transverse, 
with a brownish band across the callosities ; scutellum 
with a yellow spot at each basal angle; elytra more or 
less widely pale along their lateral margins, which are 
sub-parallel in the male, slightly rounded in the 9, mem- 
brane smoky, nervures pale; legs with the extreme apex 
of the tibiz and the tarsi black ; abdomen ochreous, more 
or less banded with grey. 
L. 5 mm. 
By sweeping, common where it occurs, Wandsworth, 
Hastings, Southwold, Chobham; Tuilgate, Chattenden, 
Champion ; Bexhill, Tunbridge Wells, Deal, Hwhurst, Shal- 
ford, Butler ; Norfolk, Edwards; Chertsey, Deal, Cow- 
bridge and Taff’s Well South Wales, Billups ; Glanvilles 
Wootton, Dale; Eltham, Dartford Brent, Douglas and Scott. 
ONCOTYLUS, Fried. 
(Anoterops, Fieb.) 
Our one British species of this genus may be known at 
once from its allies by its black-spotted tibiw, but the 
distinctive characters of the genus depend on the truncate, 
not sinuate base of the pronotum, and the long arolia extend- 
ing almost to three-quarters the length of the claws, the 
claws themselves are long and narrow, and very slightly 
curved. There are thirteen species recorded by Puton. 
O. viridiflavus, Goeze (setulosus, Mey.)—d¢  sub- 
elongate, ? elongate oval; dull greyish-green, clothed with 
black hairs. Head and pronotum yellowish, the former 
with several round spots, and the central lobe of the face 
black, the latter with a transverse spot behind each callosity, 
