O.ryfelus.'] staph ylinid;e. 381 



III (lung, vcgctiible refuse, dead leaves, at sap of freslily-cut trees, &c. ; very 

 comniou and generally distributed throughout the kingdom as far north us the Shet- 

 land Islands. 



O. maritimus, Thoiiis. (Pernsi, Fauv., oceanu^, Fauv. Anotijlus 

 maritimus, Thorns.). This species rather closely resembles 0. scnlptura- 

 tus, but is smaller, ami may easily be distinguished by its entirely red 

 antenna? ; the head is more or less large, sparingly i)unctured, with two 

 broad impressions on the forehead and a furrow or fovea in centre of 

 vertex ; the forehead is obsoletely bordered at sides towards eyes ; the 

 elytra are sometimes black, sometimes reddish, and occasionally pale tes- 

 taceous ; in the male the seventh ventral segment is deeply bisinu;ite, with 

 the central and later.d lobes all rounded at apex, and the sixth segment 

 is quite truncate, and furnished in centre of apical margin with two 

 rather distinct and projecting tubercles. I.. 3-3j- mm. 



A maritime species, found in decaying seaweed and refuse on the shore ; Isle of 

 Wight and South Coast, rather common ; Ventnor, Hayling Island, Portland, Whit- 

 sand Bay, Plymouth, &c. ; Liverpool district, Wallasey, &c. ; Hartlepool ; Northum- 

 berland district, abundant (Bold) ; Scotland, local, Tweed and Forth districts ; it 

 probably occurs on all the coasts of England, but appears to be more common in the 

 north and south. The variety with testaceous elytra has occurred in some numbers 

 in Scotland, but seems to be very local. 



O. nitidulus, Grav. {Anotiilus nitidulus, Thoms.). A small, narrow' 

 linear species, shining black, with the disc of elytra pitchy red ; head as 

 broad as thorax in male, narrower in female, depressed, almost smooth 

 and shining in fronts rather thickly punctured behind ; antenna? short, 

 black, with joints 6-10 strongly transverse ; thorax transverse, rather 

 strongly and thickly punctured, with the central furrow distinct, and the 

 side ones more or less obsolete ; elytra longer than thorax,_ finely and 

 thickly punctured, the punctuation forming longitudinal lines; hind 

 body very finely and sparingly punctured; legs testaceous with the 

 middle and posterior femora sometimes darker. L. 2| mm. 



Male with the seventh ventral segment of hind body simply and 

 broadly emarginate. 



In dung, decaying vegetable refuse, seaweed, &c. ; common and generally distri- 

 buted throughout the kingdom. 



The small size of this species will at once distinguish it from all the 

 others in which the front parts are shining, and its shining appearance 

 will separate it from all those that follow, which have the front parts 

 dull. 



O. complanatus, Er. {Anotylus complanatus, Thorns.). Eather 

 broad in proportion as compared with its allies, dull l)lack, with the hind 

 body more shining ; head more or less Inoad, according to sex, dull, with 

 the antennal projections alone shining, finely shagreened ; antenna? short, 

 black, thickened towards apex, joints 6-10 evidently transverse ; thorax 

 short, almost twice as broad as long, very finely and thickly punctured, 



