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Oxyt. (iepressus. Gravenhorst.—Steph. Catal. 293. iVo. 3197. 



Black, opaque, very finely and thickly punctured: head suborbicular^ depressed; 

 mandibles and mouth testaceous : thorax with the sides rounded and entire, 

 the disc flat^ with five narrow longitudinal channels, separated by elevated 

 glossy lines: elytra flat, pitchy, with an obscure stria parallel with the 

 suture: abdomen obtuse, linear, smooth, shining, black: legs pale, rufo- 

 testaceous, with the femora more or less dusky : antennce fuscous, or black. 



Not uncommon within the metropolitan district : and found also in 

 other parts of the country. 



Sp. 12. fuscipennis. Niger, suhopacus, suhtilissime punctulatus, elytris depressis 

 fuscis, pedihus antennisque basi pallidis : thorace quadrilineato. (Long. corp. 

 1 lin.) 



Oxyt. fuscipennis. Steph. Catal 293. No. 3198. 



Black, nearly opaque, finely and closely punctured : head suborbiculate, scarcely 

 narrower than the thorax, depressed : thorax with the lateral margins entire, 

 the disc flat, li'/^AJowr slightly elevated smooth dorsal lines, the interstices not 

 very deep and slightly approximating in front: elytra dQ^ressed., fuscous, 

 rather distinctly punctured : abdomen pitchy at the apex : legs pale : an- 

 tennae pitchy with the base pale. 



Found near London. 



Sp. 13. pallipes. Niger, opacus, thorace Bfoveolato, elytris depressis ohlique 

 lacunosis piceis, pedihus pallidis, femoribus saturatioribus. (Long. corp. 

 IJ lin.) 



Oxyt. pallipes. Kirby MSS.Sieph. Catal 293. No. 3199. 



Black, obscure, glabrous : head scarcely narrower than the thorax, orbiculate : 

 thorax truncate in front, rounded behind, minutely rugulose-panctate, with 

 five longitudinal foveola, divided by four slightly elevated ridges, the two in- 

 termediate a little diverging anteriorly : elytra depressed, pitchy, minutely 

 rugulose, sides with an oblique impression anteriorly : abdomen linear, with 

 the apex mucronate : legs testaceous-yellow , with the femora brownish, 

 antenna; dusky-hlaiC^ : mandibles pitchy. 



The other sex is much wider in proportion to its length. 



An abundant species, especially in the New Forest and near 

 Bristol ; taken also in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Devonshire. " In 

 putrid fungi in the woods of PenUergare." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 14. nitidulus. Niger, subnitidus, sub-punctatus, ore pedibusque testaceis, 

 elytris rufo-piceis thoracis laterihus integei'riniis, dorso sulcis tribus sublineari- 

 ius. (Long. corp. I — 1 lin.) 



Oxyt. nitidulus. Gravcnhorst.—Stcph. Catal. 294-. No. 3200. 



