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longitudinal rows of greyish pubescence, of which the dorsal line is tlie 

 most conspicuous ; tlie segments are also furnished with large, well- 

 marked, setigerous pores ; legs black with the tibiae and tarsi pitchy red. 

 L. 10-14 mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body very slightly 

 sinuate in middle of apical margin, with a smooth angular space before 

 sinuation. 



Under stones, iu moss, &c. ; common and generally distributed throughout the 

 kingdom. 



O. pedator, Grav. [Tasgins rujlpes, Curt.). A large, but not broad, 

 elongate species, winged, black, rather shining, elytra with a distinct 

 bluish tinge ; head suborbicular, not quite as broad as thorax, rather 

 strongly and thickly punctured with the interstices furnished with smaller 

 punctures, hinder part rugose ; antennse red, often darker in middle, with 

 penultimate joints not transverse; thorax subquadrate, punctured like 

 disc of head ; elytra about as long as, or rather shorter than, thorax, very 

 thickly and rugosely punctured ; hind body long, parallel-sided, narrowed 

 before apex, finely, thickly, and asperately punctured; legs lighter or darker 

 red, with the coxte, and rarely the femora, pitch-black. L. 18-24 mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body slightly sinuate 

 in middle of apical border ; last joint of maxillary palpi thick and some- 

 what securiform in male, normal and somewhat narrowed at apex in 

 female. 



Under stones, clods of earth, moss, &c. ; rare ; Dulwich ; Southend ; Folkestone ; 

 Biighton; recorded by Curtis and Stephens from Dover (1831), and Spitchwick, 

 Devon. 



O. ater, Grav. {Tasgius ater, Thoms.). Eather smaller than the 

 preceding, winged, elongate, and parallel-sided, shining black, with the 

 elytra and hind, body duller ; head and thorax sparingly and rather 

 strongly punctured, more thickly towards sides, the former more trans- 

 verse than in the preceding species, and the latter with sides straighter ; 

 antennae black with apex more or less obscurely reddish or reddish Avith 

 base darker, penultimate joints not transverse ; elytra slightly longer 

 than thorax, thickly and rugosely but distinctly punctured ; hind body 

 long, thickly and somewhat asperately punctured ; legs black or pitch- 

 black, with the tarsi and sometimes the tibiaj lighter. L. 13-17 mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body broadly and 

 distinctly sinuate in middle of apical margin ; last joint of maxillary palpi 

 rather thick and somewhat securiform in male, cylindrical in female. 



Under stones, clods of earth, &c.; usually in muddy places on or near the coast, 

 where it is not uncommon in some localities; it is very rare inland ; Gravesend, Sheer- 

 ness, Whitstable, Groenwich, &c. ; Wimbledon (Rye) ; Hastings ; Eastbourne ; 

 Glanvilles Wootton (Dule) ; Exmouth ; Westward Ho ! on the burrows (coumion)j 

 Llangollen ; Bristol ; Isle of Man ; Liverpool ; Northumberland district, Tynemonth, 

 Hartley, The Wausbeck near Seaton (iu profusion); Scotland, rare, Forth district; 

 Ireland, Galway, Rathmullen, Kilkeel, &c. 



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