OMALIDiE. COPROPHTLUS. OMALIUM. 345 



Genus DXLIV. — Coprophilus, Latreille. 



AntennoB inserted before the eyes on the lateral margin of the head^ gradually 

 thickening from the base to the apex^ the basal joint very large, thick, cla- 

 vate, the two next clavate, the three following subglobose, the remainder 

 turbinated, with the terminal one ovate-obtuse. Palpi very short, filiform, 

 rather stout; maxillary with the extreme joint longest, conic, with the apex 

 truncate ; labial also with the apical joint truncate : labrum transverse, 

 slightly emarginate in front: 7raa«(i2;6/e5 exserted, forcipated, incurved, acute, 

 simple : mentum transverse : head somewhat triangular : eyes small, slightly 

 prominent: thorax subquadrate, widest and notched in front, straight 

 behind, the sides slightly margined ; the disc sculptured : body linear, elon- 

 gate : abdomen obsoletely mucronated : legs slender : femora compressed ; 

 tibicE setose without ; the apex with two spines ; tarsi filiform, five-jointed. 



This genus may be recognised by having the tibias spinulose, and 

 the thorax at the same time subquadrate, longitudinally sculptured 

 and widest in front, the basal joint of the antennae elongate and 

 forming with the following a kind of elbow, the palpi short, filiform, 

 the body linear, broad, rather obtuse, depressed, &c. 



Sp. 1. striatulus. Niger, nitidus, thorace unisulcato postice impresso, elytris 

 striatis, tar sis rufescentibus. (Long. corp. 2\ — 2§ lin.) 



Sta. striatulus. Fabricius. — Elon. striatulum. Steph. Catal. 296. iVb. 3254. 

 Co. striatulus. — Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 107. 



Black, or pitchy-black, shining, rather glabrous: head narrower than the 

 thorax, punctulate, with an impression on each side between the eyes, and 

 tuberculate between the antennae : thorax punctulate, with a dorsal furrow, 

 and two oblique approximating fovese behind : elytra longer and wider than 

 the thorax, faintly striated, the striae and apex punctured : abdomen slightly 

 pubescent beneath : legs pitchy-black, or pitchy, Mdth the tarsi reddish : 

 antennae dusky or black: palpi red. 



Moderately common within the metropolitan district during the 

 spring months, being often taken flying in gardens, roads, &c. in the 

 immediate vicinity of London, as Brompton, Chelsea, Lambeth, &c.: 

 frequent in my own garden. " Barham." — Kirhy MSS. 



Genus DXLV. — Omalium, Gravenhorst. 



Antennts placed on the lateral margin of the head before the eyes, the basal 

 joint large, thick, obconic, the second short, rather thick, the third slender, 

 longer, obconic, two following small, short, five next gradually thickened, 



