OMALID.E. ANTHOBIUM. 337 



Sp. 4. nitidum. Atrum, nitidum, elytris subpiceix ohsoletissirne punctulafis, 

 antennis hasi pedibusque nigro-piceis. (Long. corp. 1 lin.) 



An. nitidum. Steph. Catal. 295. No. 3234. 



Deep shining black, glabrous : head nearly as wide as the thorax^ with a very 

 faint impression on each side behind : thorax slightly convex, impunctate, 

 rather widest behind, and the hinder angles a little rounded and somewhat 

 pitchy : elytra ample^ deep pitchy-black, very obscurely punctured, and faintly 

 depressed towards the base of the suture, the outer angles rounded : abdomen 

 about two-thirds as long as the elytra, very strongly margined, the apex 

 not very acute : legs pitchy : antennae also pitchy. 



Found within the metropolitan district, but I know not the exact 

 locahty. 



Sp. 5. Ranunculi. Nigrum, nitidiusculurrt, elytris nigricantihus apice mucro- 

 natis, antennis basi pedibusque testaceis. (Long. corp. | — If lin.) 



Om. Ranunculi. Gravenhorst. — An. Ranunculi. Steph. Catal. 295. JVo. 3235. 



Pitchy-black, rather shining and glabrous: head narrower than the thorax, 

 with an impressed longitudinal line near each eye, scarcely punctured : 

 mouth reddish: eyes prominent: thorax somewhat obcordate-quadrate, 

 with the lateral margins slightly expanded and flattened, very mhmtely 

 punctured : elytra pitchy, twice as long as the thorax, conspicuously punc- 

 tured, the apex rounded, and in one sex mucronated without : abdomen 

 slightly margined, darker than the rest of the body, the apex mucronated : 

 legs testaceous : antennae shorter than the thorax, the basal joint red, the re- 

 mainder black. 



Apparently not uncommon in the northern parts of England, 

 having been frequently captured in Yorkshire : it likewise occurs in 

 Norfolk, Suffolk, and Devonshire : it seems to be not very common 

 near London. " The Crwmlyn-burrows, &c."" — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 6. picipenne. Oblongum, nigrum, depressum, elytris piceis, pedihus antennisque 

 basi testaceis. (Long. corp. 1 — \\ lin.) 



Ann. picipenne. Kirhy MSS. — An. picipenne. Steph. Catal. 295. N^o. 3236. 



Oblong, black, considerably depressed, slightly glossy, glabrous : head much 

 narrower than the thorax, unequal ; nape thick : eyes prominent : thorax 

 truncate in front and behind, rather narrowed behind, smooth, the sides 

 slightly margined : elytra nearly twice as long as the thorax, slightly 

 inflexed, very faintly punctulated, of a livid-black, or pitchy, with the under 

 margin testaceous, the apex mucronated outwardly in one sex, rounded in 

 the other : abdomen short, black, the apex pitchy: legs fulvous: antenna 

 black, with the base testaceous. 



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