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tured, with a longitudinal smooth space: mouth and palpi reddish : thorax 

 also very shining, with a longitudinal smooth line, the lateral margins 

 punctulated : elytra piceous, or reddish, very smooth, and slightly punc- 

 tured : legs pitchy-redi, with the tihias and tarsi paler : antennae with the 

 base rufous. 



« In the spring (in Suffolk). "—Alr62/ MSS. 



Genus DXV. — Othius, Leach MSS. 



Antennae filiform, inserted on the angle of the forehead, the basal joint very 

 long, stout, and slightly curved, the second very short, obconic, third as 

 long again as the second, clavate, the two following nearly globose, the 

 remainder globose-turbinate, the terminal one being longest and ovate, acute. 

 Palpi filiform, with the terminal joint conic-acuminated, as long as the pre- 

 ceding: mandibles denticulated within: head ovate-triangular, or orbiculate : 

 forehead sulcate; eyes small, rounded, lateral: thorax oblong, truncate 

 in front, rounded behind, the sides dUated and reflexed anteriorly : body 

 linear, considerably elongated : legs nmoderate ; anterior with the tibiw 

 pubescent, and the tarsi moderately dilated. 



This genus, which was separated by Dr. Leach, in the collection 

 at the British Museum, several years ago, differs from Gyrohypnus, 

 with which it was associated, by not having the antennae geniculated, 

 and by having the terminal joint of the palpi conic-acuminated, and 

 the anterior tarsi slightly dilated. The species chiefly occur beneath 

 the bark of trees or in decaying wood, beneath stones, &c. 



A. With the head ovate. 



Sp. 1. fulgidus. Niger, nitidus, thorace loeviusculo, antennis elytris pedibus 



anoque rufis. (Long. corp. 5 — 5§ lin.) 

 St. fulgidus. P«3/A;MZ/.-0t. fulgidus. Steph.Catal.2Si. No. 3036. 



Glossy-black : head scarcely wider than the thorax, covered with scattered 

 punctures, of which two near the eyes and two in a groove on the forehead 

 are most distinct: thorax smooth, with six punctures on each side, placed 

 three anteriorly in a triangle, one behind, and two intermediate towards the 

 margin : elytra rufous, punctulated, nearly as long as the thorax, and almost 

 glabrous : abdomen above twice as long as the elytra, ivith the apex red : 

 legs also red; awe/ the antennoe and palpi the same. 

 The thorax is sometimes pitchy, with the anterior angles reddish. 



Not uncommon in woods and gardens within the metropolitan dis- 

 trict, in the autumn ; occasionally found in sand-pits at Hampstead. 

 *' Sand-hills (near Swansea)." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Marton, 



