192 KHYXCHOPHORA. [Exomias. 



broad, with the sides moderately rounded and dilated, diffusely and 

 coarsely punctured ; elytra elongate ovate with very coarsely punctured 

 striae ; legs rather long, red, femora ferruginous. In the male the 

 anterior tibiae 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 nortb 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, althoush 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 

 appearance, 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 striae deeper and the punctures set much more closely 

 together ; antennas 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 ; Kuowle, near Birmingham (Biatch). 



ORXXAS, 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 Bracliysomus, 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 

 Bracliysomus it is longer ; the more transverse thorax and the fact that 

 the scrobes are not deflexed will separate it from Exomias; Thomson 

 (Skand. Col. vii. 14?, 143) includes Bracliysomus hirsutulus and Omias 

 Bohemani under one genus. 



O. mollinus, Boh. (Bohemani, Zett.).* Pitchy-black or pitchy- 

 brown, shining, sparingly clothed with fine outstanding greyish 

 pubescence ; antennae 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, striae, inter- 

 stices convex ; legs moderately long, femora simple, tarsi short. L. 

 3-3| mm. 



By sweeping low plants ; local and, as a rule, not common ; Southern! (Gorham) ; 

 Portsmouth district (Moncreaff) ; Bevvdley (Biatch) ; Eeptou, 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 : " L' Omias mollinus que ja connaissais pas appartient bieu an groupe dcs 

 Brachydcrini." 



