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position of the members of our old genus Omias, which I 

 will now shortly enumerate. 



Omias, as now restricted, is apparently separated from 

 Barypeithes chiefly by its antennal furrow being confined 

 nearer to the apex of the rostrum, and not well defined and 

 deflexed beneath the eyes. It contains but one species 

 hitherto recorded as British, vizc, that known to us as O, 

 Bohemani, Schon., vii; but which was, according to Seid- 

 litz, first described by Schonherr in his vol. ii, p. 504 (and 

 must now be known) as O. mollinus, from a small light- 

 coloured German specimen ; Bohemani, subsequently de- 

 scribed in the same work, being merely a large dark Nor- 

 wegian example of the same species. 



The next genus, Barypeithes, Jacq. du Val (originally 

 founded upon a supposed new species, rujipesy but which 

 seems to be identical with the well known sulcifron.s), has 

 the depression for reception of the antennae lateral, with its 

 lower margin deflexed, the part next the margin being 

 deepest and sulciform ; of our species it includes B. pellu- 

 ciduSj brunnipes, and sulcifrons. 



The genus Platytarsus, Sch., intermediate between 

 Barypeithes and TrachyphloeuSj and in which the antennal 

 furrow is often bent under the eyes, but does not touch them, the 

 rostrum is longer than in Barypeithes and narrower than in 

 OmiaSy the elytra are always beset with hairs, setae or scales, 

 &c., contains our remaining species, hirsutulasy Fab., which 

 must be now known as echinatus, Bonsdorf (an older name 

 groundlessly deposed by Fabricius), and the insect formerly 

 known as Strophosomus hirtus, Schon., for which Herr 

 Seidlitz proposes to adopt the name setulosus, under which 

 SchonheiT again immediately described it. The late Mr. 

 Walton's remark, in the face of Schonherr's authority for 

 the genus of his hirtus (taken near Southampton, and at 



