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yellovv ; posterior tibiw in the middle with an obtuse tooth : antennae black, 



with the base testaceous. 



Not uncommon near London and in the New Forest, and near 

 Bristol, and in Devonshire. " On Crwmlyn-burrows." — L. W. Dill- 

 wyn, Esq. 



Sp. 6. piceus. Nigro-piceus, elytris piceis, thorace trisulco, antennis ihorace lon- 

 gioribus, pedibus pallidis. 



Sta. piceus. Limie.—Oxjt. piceus. StepL Catal. 293. No. 3192. 



Pitchy-h\a.c\s., rather glabrous : head subtriangular, a little narrower than the 

 thorax, short, above ruggedly-punctate, nasus nearly smooth, with a rather 

 large fovea in the middle, behind with an impressed line : thorax truncate 

 anteriorly, rounded behind, angulate-punctate, with three longitudinal exca- 

 vations, and the lateral margins pitted : elytra pitchy, ruggedly-punctate : 

 abdomen linear, with the apex somewhat acuminated, the sides with di- 

 vergent hairs : legs pale \vXqo\xs: antennae black , with the base ferruginotis, 

 mouth and palpi ferruginous. 



Not very uncommon near London ; found also in Devonshire and 

 in Suffolk. " Common (near Swansea), particularly in cow dung." 

 — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 7. antennatus. Niger, antennis thorace longioribus, elytris piceis, pedibus 

 pallidis thorace subrugoso, dorso trimlcato. (Long. corp. 1§ lin.) 



Oxyt. antennatus. Kirhy MSS.—Steph. Catal. 293. No. 3194. 



Black, slightly shining, glabrous, punctured : Aea^^ narrower than the thorax, 

 with an impression between the eyes : thorax with its lateral margins entire, 

 the disc rugose, with three somewhat equal dorsal channels: elytra pitchy : 

 abdomen glossy: legs pale: antennae nearly half as long as the body, pale at 

 the base, the apex dusky or black. 



Allied to Ca. affinis, but the forehead less excavated, the elytra pitchy, legs pale 

 and antennae longer, and the intermediate sulci on the thorax abbreviated 

 at each end ; — from O. piceus it differs in not having the base of the antennae 

 red, but the forehead is more deeply excavated between the eyes. 



Taken in Devonshire and in Suffolk. 



Sp. 8. sculpturatus. Niger, subnitidus, crebrl punctulatus, pedibus rufo-piceis, 

 thoracis lateribus integerrinms, sulco dorsali posticc attenuato, lateralibus subli- 

 nearibus. (Long. corp. 1^ — 2 lin.) 



Oxyt. sculpturatus. Gravenhorst.—Steph. Catal. 293. No. 3193. 



Black, slightly shining, thickly punctured: head somewhat rugose, with a 

 smooth impression on the forehead : mouth pitchy : thorax short, transverse. 



