OMALID.E. ANTHOBIUM. 341 



Not a very abundant species; found in the neighbourhood of 

 London occasionally, and in Norfolk and Suffolk. " Taken near 

 Beverley in Yorkshire, by Mr. Spence, in cow-dung." — Kirhy MSS. 



Sp. 16. piceum. Fusco-ferrugineum, punctatum, thorace transversa, postice 

 impresso, pedibus rufis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 



Om. piceum. Gyllenhall, Ins. Suec. ii. 200. — An. grossum. Steph. Catal. 

 296. No. 3246. — An. piceum. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 107. 



Broad, duskj-ferruginoiis, or pitchy, very glossy : head subtriangular, nar- 

 rower than the thorax, ptmctured : eyes prominent, black: i/toraa; transverse, 

 rather convex, longer than the head, punctured, slightly impressed behind, 

 and the sides of the disc broad and flattened : elytra more than twice as long 

 as the thorax, convex, punctured, with the apex rather widest : abdomen a 

 little longer than the elytra, rusty-brown, with the apex red, smooth : legs 

 red: antennae nearly as long as the thorax, red, dusky in the middle, 

 slightly pilose. 



Found occasionally in the gravel pits at Coombe Wood and in 

 other places within the metropolitan district; also in Devonshire, 

 Norfolk, and Suffolk. " Taken in the autumn of 1806 by Mr. Paul 

 in rotten wood.'''— Kirby MSS. " Raehills."— i?ev. W. Little. 



Sp. 17. consimile. Nigro-piceum, niiidum, antennis pedibusque ferrvgineis, 

 thorace valdl convexo postice subangustato. (Long. corp. If lin.) 



Om. consimile. Gyllenhall, Ins. Suec. ii. 199. — An. consimile. Steph. Nomen. 

 2d edit. col. 107. 



Pitchy-black, shining, glabrous : head rounded, very thickly punctured, with an 

 impression on each side ; eyes brown : thorax subquadrate, truncate in 

 front, the sides rounded and a little narrowed behind, the base somewhat 

 emarginate in the middle, disc very convex, shining black, with the margins 

 pitchy, throughout thickly and rather deeply punctured, with an obscure 

 fovea before the scutellum and on ea^h side behind : elytra above twice as 

 long as the thorax, a little dilated behind, the disc deeply punctured, the 

 punctures somewhat disposed in striae towards the suture, pitchy-black, 

 with the apex paler: abdomen rather smooth, with the tip ferruginous: legs 

 ferruginous : antennae the same. 



The only example I have seen of this insect, which is in my cabi- 

 net, was taken in the south of Scotland. 



Sp. 18. melanocephalum. Rufo-piceum, capite saturatiori, thorace elytris pedi- 

 busque jlavescentibus. (Long. corp. \\ lin.) 



Sta. melanocephalus. Olivier? — An. melanocephalum. Steph. Catal. 296. 

 No. 3247. 



