192 RHYNCHOPHORA. [ Exomias. 
broad, with the sides moderately rounded and dilated, diffusely and 
coarsely punctured ; elytra elongate ovate with very coarsely punctured 
strie; legs rather long, red, femora ferruginous. In the male the 
anterior tibia are somewhat curved at apex. L. 3-3} mm. 
In moss, in woods; occasionally it does damage by burrowing into strawberries ; 
locally abundant ; London district, Kent and Surrey, common everywhere ; it appears 
to be more or less general as far north as the Lancaster district and Cheshire, but it 
ceases entirely in the north and is not recorded from the Northumberland and Durham 
district, nor has Dr. Sharp ever come across a Scotch example, although it must be 
admitted that Murray records it as “ occasional”’ in Scotland. Ireland, Malahide, near 
Dublin (Power), Armagh, &c. 
E. pellucidus, Boh. Very like the preceding in general shape and 
appearanee, but easily distinguished by having the upper surface thickly 
set with long outstanding greyish hairs; the general colour is, on the 
average, more pitchy; the thorax is more dilated at the sides and more 
thickly punctured, the punctures being evidently less coarse, and the 
elytra have the strie deeper and the punctures set much more closely 
together ; antenne and legs red. L. 3-3} mm. 
Sandy places; in moss, &c.; very local, and, as a rule, rare, but occasionally in pro- 
fusion; Hackney; Eastry, Kent in profusion, (Gorham) ; Kingsgate (600 specimens 
on the shore in 1886, T. Wood); Sandwich; Knowle, near Birmingham (Blatch). 
OMZAS, Schonherr. 
This genus contains about twenty species which are found in Europe, 
the Canaries, Cyprus, the Caucasus district and Central Asia; they 
very strongly resemble Brachysomus, from which they differ in the 
finer outstanding hairs and the rather more prominent eyes, and in 
having the first joint of the funiculus shorter than second, whereas in 
Brachysomus it is longer; the more transverse thorax and the fact that 
the scrobes are not deflexed will separate it from Hxomias ; Thomson 
(Skand. Col. vii. 142, 143) includes Brachysomus hirsutulus and Omias 
Bohemani under one genus. 
©. mollinus, Boh. (Bohemani, Zett.).* Pitchy-black or pitchy- 
brown, shining, sparingly clothed with fine outstanding greyish 
pubescence ; antennz and legs red ; head indistinctly punctured, vertex 
almost smooth, rostrum broad; thorax a little broader than long, with 
the sides rounded, rather closely punctured ; elytra ovate, convex with 
the shoulders rounded, and with deep, coarsely punctured, stri, inter- 
stices convex; legs moderately long, femora simple, tarsi short. L. 
3-35 mm, 
By sweeping low plants; local and, as a rule, not common; Southend (Gorham) ; 
Portsmouth district (Monereaff); Bewdley (Blatch); Repton, Burton-on-Trent 
(where I have taken it in numbers by sweeping near an osier-bed) ; Heysham, near 
Lancaster; Northumberland and Durham district, “near Swalwell,’ J. Hardy ; 
Scotland, rare, Tweed and Tay districts. 
* M. Bedel writes to me as follows regarding this species, of which I sent him a 
specimen : ‘* ZL’ Omias mollinus que je connaissais pas appartient bien au groupe des 
Brachyderini.” 
