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pi lin cross striation, ami finely and diffusely punctured ; niesostemum 

 without prominence; legs black, posterior tibiae with two transverso 

 cariiHe on their outer side. L. 10-16 mm. 



Malt- with the anterior tibiae furnished on their undor-side with a 

 iviiti.il kei-1, which is serrate and tuberculate. 



In "iiing, rotting fungi, Ac.; common and generally distributed throughout the 

 kingdom. 



G-. vernalis, L. Short oval, almost semiglobose, very shining, 

 with the margins strongly metallic, bluish or greenish; undi-r- 

 closely punctured, clothed with blackish pubescence; antennae 

 bl.ick; head rugose with an obsolete frontal tubercle; thorax closely and 

 thickly punctured, the punctuation consisting of larger and smaller 

 punctures ; scutellum with a few punctures at base ; elytra with five 

 rows of punctures, interstices with more or less distinct cross striation, 

 sometimes almost smooth ; mesosternum with a sharp cariniform promi- 

 nence; legs Hack, posterior tibiae with two carinae on their outer side; 

 the sculpture of the thorax will at once distinguish the species. L. 

 10-14 mm. 



Male with the posterior femora dentate and serrate underneath on 

 their anterior mnrgin, and with the central keel of the anterior tibiae also 

 serrate, the latter being furnished with an emarginate tooth at apex. 



In dung, decaying fungi, &c. ; local, but widely distributed; London district, not 

 uncommon, Greenwich, Plumstead, Esher, Coombe Wood, Belvedere, Wimbledon, Ac. ; 

 New Forest; Devon; Llangollen; Swansea; Barmouth ; Midland districts, generally 

 distributed ; Carlisle ; not recorded by Bold from the Northumberland and Durham 

 district ; Scotland, rare, Highlands, Clyde, Tweed, Moray, Sutherland, and probably 

 other districts; Ireland, nrar Dublin, Portrush, &c. 



Cr. pyreneeus, Charp. (vernalis, Steph., nee L. ; politus, Muls.). 

 Closely allied to the preceding, of which it appears to have been con- 

 sidered a variety by some authors ; it is, however, very easily dis- 

 tinguished by the following characters : form narrower in proportion to 

 its length; upper surface more brilliant, smooth and shining; thorax 

 impunctate or almost impunctate on disc and diffusely punctured at 

 sides, with the posterior angles less rounded; abdomen impunctate and 

 shining in middle beneath; male with the teeth on the under-side of the 

 anterior tibiae five or six instead of at Last eight as in the preceding 

 species. L. 10-14 mm. 



Sandy heaths; in dung; local; London district, not uncommon, Esher, Belve- 

 dere, Wimbledon ; in the latter locality it occurs commonly in the spring and autumn 

 on the common ; it is the O. vrrnali* of Stephens which he records from Riplev, 

 Hertford, Epping, Croydon, Suffolk, New Forest and Devonshire, aud as pleiitiiul 

 on Wimbledon Common. 



TEOGINA. 



This tribe contains one genus, Trox ; another genus, Otnoryug, was 

 fonm-d by Erichson to include certain of the larger species, but the 

 diuracters were indefinite, and it has not been retained; the mcmbvrs 



