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its apex mucronated : legs ferruginous : antenna; black, with a distinct tri- 

 articulate club^ the terminal joint being very obtuse. 



Taken within the metropolitan district and in Suffolk. " In boleti, 

 Oakhampton, Somerset." — Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 3. ovalis. Ovalis, ater, nitidus, Iceviusculus, pedibus ferrugineis. (Long. corp. 

 flin.) 



Pr. ovalis. Kirby MSS.—Steph. Catal. 293. No. 3230. 



Body short, oval, very black and smooth^ rather depressed and shining : head 

 unequal^ narrower than the thorax : eyes prominent : thorax short;, truncate 

 in front and behind^ the anterior angles rounded^ the hinder faintly notched, 

 the disc scarcely punctured: elytra more than twice as long as the thorax, 

 very finely punctured, sometimes pitchy : abdomen very short: legs ferru- 

 ginous: antenna black, with the terminal joint longest. 



Inhabits the neighbourhood of London, and also Suifolk and De- 

 vonshire. " Raehills."— i?eu. W. Little. 



Genus DXLII. — Anthobium, Leach. 



Antenna placed at the sides of the head, near a tubercle on the margin, in- 

 creasing nearly from the base to the apex, the basal joint large oblong- 

 clavate, second small obconic, two following slender, short, clavate, the 

 remainder obconic or turbinated, the terminal one being largest, ovate, 

 acuminate, or somewhat cordate. Palpi maxillary with the apical joint 

 conic, slightly acuminated, or fusiform : labrum very narrow, transverse : 

 mandibles short, incurved : head broad, triangular, longitudinally depressed 

 above : eyes hemispheric, lateral : thorax transverse, somewhat quadran- 

 gular, not narrowed behind, the sides margined, and curved : elytra covering 

 the greater portion of the abdomen, the sides acutely margined : body short, 

 ovate : abdomen dilated, with the apex mucronated : legs slender ; femora 

 sublinear and a little compressed; tibiw simple, somewhat trigonal; tarsi 

 pentamerous. 



This genus, to which I have retained Dr. Leach's original appel- 

 lation, as the type of Omalium yet remains in that genus, may be 

 known by the superior length of the elytra ; the broad, ovate, body ; 

 short, transverse, thorax, which is rarely, and then but indistinctly, 

 narrowed behind, without descending to less obvious distinctions: 

 the species, as the name implies, are very frequently found in flowers, 

 some of them almost exclusively so, though others frequent dung, 

 fungi, mosses, and the usual resorts of the Brachelytra ; and are also 



