STENID.E. OXYTELUS. 315 



The genus Oxycelus as restricted by Mannerheim may be known 

 from the allied genera by not having the antennae geniculated or 

 broken, by having the posterior legs unarmed on their outer edge, 

 with the anterior pectinate-dentate; from Aploderus the depressed 

 sculptured thorax, form of head, slight dissimilarity in the trophi, 

 and other less important characters distinguish it : — the species are, 

 as usual with this group, of a gregarious nature, and occur at all 

 times, especially in the spring and early summer months ; in dung, 

 fungi, &c. 



Sp. 1. carinatus. Niger, capite postice tuber culo gein'mo,thorace lineis elevaiis 

 quatuor, iibiis tarsisque testaceis. (Long. corp. If lin.) 



Oxyt. carinatus. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal. 293. No. 3188. 



Pitchy-Zi/acA,-j, rather glabrous : head subtriangular, rather narrower than the 

 thorax, very much punctulated, in front rather smooth and inequal, ivith a 

 double tubercle on the crown and a rather acute one on each side before each 

 eye : thorax truncate and widest in front, also much punctured, the punc- 

 tures somewhat confluent, and with four somewhat acutely ridged elevated 

 longitudinal lines: elytra dilated, with confluent punctures: abdomen 

 linear, broad, with the apex slightly acuminated : the femora pitchy red : 

 tibia and tarsi testaceous : antennae black, with the base rusty. 



Extremely abundant within the metropolitan district, and I suspect 

 in other parts of the country, having received specimens from the 

 New Forest, Devonshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, &c. " Near 

 Swansea." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 2. pulcher. Niger, thorace rugoso rufescenti, lateribus serrulatis, elytris pedi- 

 husque testaceis. (Long. corp. 2^ lin.) 



Oxyt. pulcher. Gravenhorst. — Steph. Catal. 293. No. 3187. 



V'lich.^ -blade, somewhat glabrous: head somewhat triangular, ruggedly- 

 punctured, the front smooth, behind with two longitudinal foveolae ; and on 

 each side before the eyes a pitchy tubercle : thorax rusty -black, scarcely 

 longer than the head, truncated and widest in front, rounded behind, with the 

 lateral margins finely denticulate, the disc very much punctulated, and lon- 

 gitudinally rwi,'-g-ecZ : e/?/^ra punctulated, subequal, testaceous-red: abdomen 

 with the penultimate segment edged with dull reddish : legs testaceous : 

 antennae reddish, with the base paler. 



Also an abundant species within the metropolitan district, but 

 apparently less common than the last -, — found also in Suffolk and 

 Norfolk. 



