256 STAPH YLINID^. [Ocf/pUS. 



in front, tliickly behind ; antennre rather long, dark, with the base 

 reddish, and the last two or three joints testaceous, penultimate joints not 

 transverse ; thorax subquadrate, thickly, but very distinctly punctured, 

 with a fine smooth longitudinal central line ; elytra transverse, evidently 

 shorter than thorax, finely, very thickly, and rugosely punctured ; hind 

 body thickly and somewhat asperately punctured ; legs red with coxae 

 darker. L. 12-15 mm. 



Male with seventh ventral segment of hind body slightly sinuate in 

 middle of apical margin ; last joint of maxillary palpi as thick as the 

 penultimate and truncate in male, narrower and subtruncate in female. 



In moss, flood refuse, &c. ; rather local, but widely distributed, aud not uncommon ; 

 London district, not uncommon; New Forest; Hastings; Glanvilles Wootton ; 

 Soham, Cambridge; Midland disti-icts, very generally distributed ; Yorkshire ; Liver- 

 pool ; Northumberland district ; Scotland, local. Lowlands, Solvvay, Tweed, Forth, 

 Clyde, Tay, and Dee districts; Ireland, near Belfast, and Galvvay, &c. 



O. fuscatus, Grav. A very distinct species, which is easily distin- 

 guished from all the others by its black-bronze appearance and the 

 peculiar sculpture of the thorax ; winged, head and thorax very shining 

 black bronze, elytra black, dull, with a slight bronze reflection, hind body 

 black ; head somewhat orbicular, a little narrower than thorax, sparingly 

 punctured on disc, more thickly at sides, very thickly behind eyes ; 

 antennae black, with apex sometimes lighter, penultimate joints not trans- 

 verse ; thorax subquadrate, with a double punctuation, consisting of small 

 and very fine pu.nctures, and larger ones irregularly scattered over the 

 whole surface, except on a broad smooth longitudinal central space ; 

 elytra very finely, thickly, and subrugosely punctured ; hind body very 

 thickly, finely, and somewhat asperately punctured ; legs black, with the 

 tarsi, and sometimes the tibii^, pitchy red. L. 12-15 mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body slightly sinuate 

 in middle of apical margin. 



In dry dung, moss, under stones, &c. ; also in fungi on elms, &c. ; scarce, but very 

 widely distributed ; London district, rare, Putney, Hammersmith, Walton-ou-Thames, 

 Tonbridge, Margate ; Hastings; New Forest (in some numbers); Lincoln; Liver- 

 pool district ; Clifton, near Manchester; flood refuse, Ouse, Yorkshire; Northumber- 

 land district, occurs sparingly in several localities j Scotland, scarce, Lowlands, Sol way, 

 Tweed, Forth, and Tay districts. 



O. cupreus, Rossi (mneocephalus, De G.). Winged, head and thorax 

 shining bright bronze, elytra of the same colour, but rather duller, hind 

 body more obscurely bronze ; head and thorax very closely punctured, the 

 former somewhat orbicular, narrower than thorax, the latter somewhat 

 oblong with a smooth longitudinal central space, on each side of which, 

 among the fine punctures, is a row of some seven or eight large punctures ; 

 antennsB red with the middle joints sometimes darker, or fuscous with 

 red base, penultimate joints about as long as broad, the tenth slightly 

 transverse ; elytra as long as tliorax, together witli hind body very closely 

 and thickly punctured ; hind body gradually narrower behind with five 



