32 HETEROMERA. | Cleniopus. 
impressed on each side, and with the sides a little dilated before middle ; 
the sixth ventral segment of abdomen is simple. 
The male is very variable in colour, and the varieties are classed by 
Thomson as follows:— 
a. Head, antenne, palpi and anal segment black. 
b. As the preceding, but with the thorax also black, 
ce. Fusco-sulphureous, with the legs bright sulphur-yellow, and the head, thorax, 
antenne and palpi black. 
In some specimens the tarsi and almost the whole of the antenne are 
black. 
A coast species; occurring on flowers, rushes, &e. ; local, but common where it 
occurs; Deal; Dover; Folkestone; Hastings; Isle of Wight; Weymouth; Chesil 
Beach ; Land’s End; Lundy Island; Burnham, Somerset ; Swansea ; Tenby; Brandon, 
Suffolk; Hunstantou, Norfolk; Mr. Chappell records it from Kendal. 
OMOPHLUS, Solier. 
This is a rather iarge genus, containing upwards of sixty or seventy 
species, which appear to be confined to Europe, Northern and Central 
Asia, and the cireum-Mediterranean districts ; of the thirty-two European 
species only one occurs in Britain ; it may be known from Cteniopus by 
the more transverse thorax, which is pilose and has the posterior angles 
obtuse or rounded, and the shorter and stouter antenne. 
O. armeria, Curt. (amerine, auct.; pubescens, Muls.). Oblong, 
elongate, depressed, shining black with the elytra testaceous-brown ; 
head and thorax clothed with long hairs, the former rather coarsely 
punctured, the latter transverse, elosely and finely punctured, uneven on 
disc, with the sides slightly rounded ; antenne black, pitchy towards 
base ; elytra broader than thorax, clothed with very short*pubescence, 
with shallow and more or less obsolete striz, interstices very closely and 
distinctly punctured ; legs rather long, black, apex of tibiz, and the 
tarsi, ferruginous. L. 7-8 mm. 
Male smaller and narrower than female, with the antenne considerably 
longer. 
On Armeria maritima ; extremely local ; I know of no locality except Weymouth, 
where it has been taken in some numbers on and near the Chesil Beach by Mr. Dale, 
Mr. Harris, Mr. Blatch and others. 
MELANDRYIDZ. 
This family, according to the Munich catalogue, contains thirty-six 
genera and one hundred and twenty species ; several have since been 
added, and, at present, twenty-two genera and fifty-six species have 
been found in Europe ; the remainder are widely distributed, but only 
a comparatively small number occur in tropical countries. The following 
are the chief characteristics of the family:—Head not constricted behind, 
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